Denver Football Stadium

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Denver football stadium. Originally designed as a baseball venue the stadium was expanded in later years to accommodate the addition of a professional football team to the city the denver broncos as well as to improve denvers hopes of landing a major league baseball team. The franchise who saved the broncos floyd littles contributions to the broncos go far. The stadium investment corp a nonprofit venture between the district and the stadium management company an affiliate of the denver broncos football club is the applicant leading the development of this new mixed use neighborhood destination. The official site of the denver broncos.

Du stadium was a stadium in the western united states on the campus of the university of denver in denver colorado. From the beginning spending 220 million on a football stadium fort collins never really wanted and colorado state didnt really need was an extravagant ego trip so the rams could brag about. Empower field at mile high is an american football stadium in denver colorado. The stadium had a seating capacity of 30000 a.

The stadium was built in 1948 to accommodate the denver bears baseball team which was a member of the western league during its construction. It hosted the du pioneers college football until the program was discontinued in 1961 due to mounting deficits. It opened in 2001 to replace the broncos original home the old mile high stadium. Given the difficulty of competing at altit.

The stadium is nicknamed mile high due to the citys elevation of 5280 feet. Official site of the denver broncos. Stadium game day. The primary tenant is the denver broncos of the national football league.

Empower field at mile high was made possible thanks to the generosity of the citizens of boulder denver jefferson adams broomfield douglas and arapahoe counties. Empower field at mile high is managed by stadium management company llc. The stadium is owned by the metropolitan football stadium district mfsd. Empower field carries on the tradition of the old mile high stadium as being one of the most difficult stadiums to play in for opposing teams.

Some of the steps being taken are expected to be revealed wednesday when the metropolitan football stadium district holds a quarterly meeting and updates board members on the in progress work. After von miller announced his plans to bring back the mile high salute this season we tracked down several former broncos players from the super bowl winning 1997 team to find out its true origins.