ATLANTA -- Temperatures in the 80s could lead to the retractable roof at the new $1.5 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium being closed when the Atlanta Falcons open the venue in late August, team president Rich McKay said.
"It will be weather-driven and how hot it is," McKay told ESPN. "We'll have a temperature range that we develop. The range will be somewhere between probably 60 to 75 (open) -- maybe to 80 -- but 80 might be too warm. We're going to do some studies of the building itself and see how the building performs. So 80s, it could be closed.