INDIANAPOLIS — The roof of Lucas Oil Stadium will be closed for the Colts vs. Broncos game due to a mechanical issue, Colts team owner Jim Irsay posted on X. The window is open on a beautiful August Sunday. Irsay announced the roof would be open Saturday.
Six regular-season games were played with the roof down and the windows open. Thirty-eight of the Colts’ 130 regular-season games were played with the roof up, or 29.2%.
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Lucas Oil Stadium cost $720 million, of which at least $620 million came from taxpayers. It is not known how much a retractable roof would add to the cost; in 2013, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press reported that a retractable roof for a Minneapolis stadium would cost $25 million to $40 million more than a dome.
This is not the first time that there have been problems with the roof. In September 2015, a bolt fell from the roof, broke into pieces and injured three people.
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In November 2017, the roof was left open overnight. The next morning, half of the roof was closed and it was discovered that a faulty sensor was preventing the west side from closing, according to the facility’s executive director, Barney Levengood.
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“It’s a sensor that tells you something might be wrong,” Levengood said. “You go up and make sure everything’s working and then shut it down. That’s what we did.”
