![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the promoter, Clear Channel Motor Sports, has drawn huge crowds to the Monster Truck and Tractor Pulls and Supercross events in the Silverdome. “Once the promoters saw how popular these Monster Trucks were, they became the main event,” Schutte said. In those early years, the Silverdome and the Houston Astrodome became the centers of the Monster Truck racing world. That’s when the first televised competition titled “Battle of the Monster Trucks,” a made-for-television event featuring 12 Monster Trucks in side-by-side racing and car crushing action debuted. “An estimated 10,000- plus fans breached security and mobbed the fat-tire truck, actually forcing the frightened driver to lock himself inside.” ![]() “Nobody called it a Monster Truck then, no one knew what to call it,” High Profile Public Relations spokesman Pat Schutte said of the 1982 debut of “Bigfoot.” “All hell broke loose like never before at the Dome,” Schutte said. Hot Rod Association-sanctioned Truck & Tractor Pull, when a truck named “Bigfoot” rolled up on top of a couple of cars on oversized agricultural floatation tires that usually went on fertilizer spreaders. 8, 1982, was a historic day at the Silverdome. Although no one knew it at the time, Oct. The final Monster Jam in the stadium, scheduled to be shut down after the Super Bowl in February, will open its gates at 5:30 p.m. PONTIAC – The Pontiac Silverdome – considered the birthplace of the Monster Truck craze – will host the giant machines one last time Saturday. Dan Evans of Scottville, Mich., drives his monster truck “Destroyer” onto a small hill during press preview day for the upcoming, and final, Monster Truck Pull event at the Pontiac Silverdome. ![]()
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