The biggest events I ever attended were both at Foxboro Stadium: The Who’s reunion concert in 1989 and 5 matches of the World Cup in 1994. Since the stadium’s capacity is somewhere around 50-60,000, I’m apparently quite a loner compared to some of the other posters here.
As for that income tax thing, I went once, wasn’t too impressed. Now I just give it a miss.
–sublight.
I worked at an outback ball last year. There was about 4,500 people there. it sounds meagre I know, but considering that this was about 200km from anywhere, with no power and in the middle of the desert…nearly…it was pretty amazing!
I think there was more alcohol in the place than water! Says something about the aussies doesn’t it!? 
mmm…reading back on this…I think I need to get out a bit more!
Super Bowl XX in New Orleans Superdome - Whatever the football capacity there is.
Yeah, but my number’s biggest! Isn’t it OK to dream big?
Thanks for noticing!
84,000 Slane, 1995 to see REM. Big crowd. I was near the front.
Coldy, yes, you are old. Just remember, that also, in 1992, “Under the Bridge” was first released.
Ohio State Football games (at the Shoe) draw a pretty big crowd. I think the stadium holds around 95k. I usually attend 3-4 games a year.
Also, in Columbus, we have a fireworks display on July 3rd called Red, White and Boom. IIRC, it gets crowds around 300-400k. I used to go, but now avoid it like the plague.
last year, for New Year’s Eve, i was in Times Square for the big brouhaha.
6,480,000,000,000 people? Now that’s a big crowd! That’s like, more people than have ever lived on earth.
For myself: Fat Tuesday in New Orleans, many times. Crowd estimate runs somewhere between 4 and 5 million.
Note to self: read the whole thread before posting a smart-ass comment.
I go to the Daytona 500 every year. I think it draws about a quarter million people.
Not the largest number here, but I was crowds of ~95,000-100,000 fairly regularly in college.
Gotta love the Ohio State Buckeyes! Never anything but a capacity crowd in the Horseshoe.
NYE 12/31/1999-Billy Joel Millenium Show
Forget the date-Giants Stadium- Net Aid
NYE '00 ~> Vegas ~> approx 1.5 mill
>all on the strip as far as i could tell, had to battle through crowds just to move 4 feet<
before that was an
all-night-dance-event labor day’00 ~> Indio, Ca ~> 35,000+
Just living in Tokyo from 1994-1998. Everyday was like an event with 26 million. It was pretty crazy going through Shinjuku station. It is amazing everyone does not kill each other there. (or at least more often than the death cult does)
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On Monday I went to the Rose Parade, estimated crowd 1 million.
I think a bigger thing is the energy. I have been to sold out baseball games which didn’t feel crowded, yet when I went to a playoff game it felt like a huge crowd due to the energy.
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Anytime. That’s what we’re here for.
That’s okay, Ogre, GMTA*.
I’ll agree with deb, the energy is the most important thing. There was definitely a lot of energy for that “little old polish guy” (thanks, yojimbo), and I can easily see some sports games getting that kind of energy.
*Great Minds Think Alike. I haven’t seen this particular acronymn on the board yet, but y’all abbrevaite everthing else…
GMTA! What about FSD? 
Sun Day, Washington DC. May 5, 1979(?). 600,000.
Second Woodstock. 'Bout the same.
I’m now past 40, and don’t dig crowds as much as i used to.
I couldn’t even begin to guess how many people were there, but the largest event for fred was the rededication of the Statue of Liberty, 1986.
I heard there were eight million visitors to lower Manhattan that weekend, but a supposed equal amount of residents were said to have escaped the throngs. I think all Manhattan streets south of twentieth were closed to vehicles that weekend.
The fireworks were amazing. I’d guess there was no bigger boom show until the Thames was completely covered in smoke during last year’s Y2K celebration.
And I have been wrong before…
NASCAR races. Don’t know which one had the highest attendance. I’d say Dover Downs, probably, but Pocono seemed more crowded.