When was sports authority field built

Demolition of the old Mile High Stadium is scheduled to begin on Wednesday. Tuesday, Jan. Many of the seats have been sold to fans and some of the sod also has been sold. A welder's torch is blamed for starting the fire. Firefighters from the Denver Fire Department are at the old Mile High Stadium to put out a fire that was started by a welder's torch in the west stands, Jan.

Sports Authority is racing to post its name around the home of the Denver Broncos after winning the naming rights for the stadium. Crews put up the last of the letters in the Sports Authority at Mile High sign going up on the stadium, Sept.

They will fill in the letters with red pieces of fiberglass once they are in place. Above the letters will be mountains. In , luxury suites were added atop the upper deck increasing the seating capacity to over 80, Three tiers of stands in a horseshoe shape made up Mile High Stadium.

The main scoreboard was located above one level of bleachers on the south side of the stadium. Mile High Stadium was also one of the loudest stadiums due to its steel grandstands. The Rockies played for two seasons while their current home, Coors Field , was constructed.

Like nearly every other NFL teams in the s, Broncos owner Pat Bowlen wanted a new state of the art stadium constructed that had additional luxury suites and club seats in order to generate additional revenue.

Apart from that most of its features were somewhat preserved or addressed in a new way within the new design. The seating bowl was much like the old one with U-shaped partly enclosed bowl and a single-tiered south side.

But apart from being more comfortable and spacious with capacity almost unchanged from the original , the new stands received 5 floors of infrastructure for commercial use and a large corporate section within the capacity. There are 8, business seats and skyboxes. Many fans protested, joined by journalists of Denver Post, who refused to use the commercial name for a long time.

In the new Mile High went through its first major renovation. It might be just a marketing effort but it shows that even in the distressing times of COVID new formats of advertising can be enjoyable.