Future NFL stars Fran Tarkenton, Roger Staubach, and Don Meredith played in Oyster Bowl games.

Over the years Foreman Field was used for several high-profile concerts including Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1974 reunion tour, more than 33,000 people were in attendance.

The Virginia Ambassadors of the World Football League were to play their games at Foreman Field in 1974 before the franchise was sold and moved to Orlando.

[9] In 2016, Populous did an expansion study and recommended that Foreman Field be torn down and rebuilt because the existing structure could not be updated to meet modern building codes.

The $67.5 million stadium reconstruction project began with the demolition of the old grandstands on November 19, 2018, and was successfully expected to be completed in time for Old Dominion's 2019 season.

[12] Greg DuBois, ODU's vice president for administration and finance, said the university "looked at other projects done around the country in this fashion," and we worked with the architects and contractors to assure ourselves we could do it in nine months.