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THE HIGHWAY THAT connects Pullman, Washington, and Moscow, Idaho, is roughly nine miles. It's a well-known stretch for those on the Palouse, cutting through the rolling hills and wheat fields of the region.
Other than the turnoff for the tiny Moscow-Pullman Regional Airport, there aren't many notable landmarks between the college towns of Washington State University and the University of Idaho. It's mostly farmland, but when making the drive from the west, one large white structure stands out.
It comes into view about a half-mile before the state border, dwarfing everything around it on the University of Idaho campus. Most first-timers assume it's an airplane hangar. Students joke it's a giant beer can on its side.
Officially, it's called the ASUI-Kibbie Activity Center, but since opening 50 years ago this week as the home to Idaho football, it's mostly been known by a different name: The Kibbie Dome.
It's also known as the weirdest college football stadium in America -- and one of the most unusual sports venues in the world.
"Here's the irony: the Kibbie Dome is not really a dome," said Alec Holser, a founding partner of Opsis Architecture in Portland, Oregon, who led the 2011 renovation of the building. "There are other geodesic domes made of wood, but this is actually a vault.
"It's an arched-shaped continuous [roof] like a blimp hangar. In fact, one of the few other structures of similar gargantuan size were the blimp hangars built in World War II."
On its 50th anniversary, it's time to celebrate all of the weirdness that makes the Kibbie Dome one of a kind.
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Go Gophers!!
THE HIGHWAY THAT connects Pullman, Washington, and Moscow, Idaho, is roughly nine miles. It's a well-known stretch for those on the Palouse, cutting through the rolling hills and wheat fields of the region.
Other than the turnoff for the tiny Moscow-Pullman Regional Airport, there aren't many notable landmarks between the college towns of Washington State University and the University of Idaho. It's mostly farmland, but when making the drive from the west, one large white structure stands out.
It comes into view about a half-mile before the state border, dwarfing everything around it on the University of Idaho campus. Most first-timers assume it's an airplane hangar. Students joke it's a giant beer can on its side.
Officially, it's called the ASUI-Kibbie Activity Center, but since opening 50 years ago this week as the home to Idaho football, it's mostly been known by a different name: The Kibbie Dome.
It's also known as the weirdest college football stadium in America -- and one of the most unusual sports venues in the world.
"Here's the irony: the Kibbie Dome is not really a dome," said Alec Holser, a founding partner of Opsis Architecture in Portland, Oregon, who led the 2011 renovation of the building. "There are other geodesic domes made of wood, but this is actually a vault.
"It's an arched-shaped continuous [roof] like a blimp hangar. In fact, one of the few other structures of similar gargantuan size were the blimp hangars built in World War II."
On its 50th anniversary, it's time to celebrate all of the weirdness that makes the Kibbie Dome one of a kind.

A giant beer can on its side: Why the Kibbie Dome is CFB's weirdest stadium
On its 50th anniversary, it's time to celebrate all of the weirdness that makes Idaho's Kibbie Dome one of a kind.
Go Gophers!!