1936 to 1979, the NCAA Liberty Bowl from 1959 to 1963, and the World League Liberty Bell in 1974. As the decades passed — John F. Kennedy Stadium was also the site of many events. In the autumn ...

And when I’ve asked them to tell me what they remember from JFK Stadium that day, almost everyone starts with this: It was hot. Really hot. So just how hot was it for Live Aid in Philadelphia?

(More on that here.) The Philadelphia Eagles could have prevented Live Aid from using JFK Stadium. The team rented JFK as its practice field and had exclusivity on it for the entire summer of 1985.