Mile High Stadium

The Mile High Stadium ( Bears Stadium until 1968 ) was a sports venue in Denver, Colorado, was played in baseball, football and American football. It was built in 1948 and stood until 2001.

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• The Denver Broncos of the NFL 1960-2001
• The Colorado Rockies of the National League between 1993 and 1994
• The Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer between 1996 and 2001
• The Denver Gold of the USFL between 1983 and 1985
• The Denver Bears
• The Denver Zephyrs

The Mile High Stadium was originally built as Bears Stadium for minor league baseball and then had only 17,000 seats.

In the late 1950s, followed by extension measures that increased the capacity only to 23,100, then to 34 657 places. The Broncos took in 1961 on the operation of gambling and were able to enjoy excellent viewing figures, so that in 1968 built a top rank and so the capacity was increased to more than 50,000 spectators.

Between 1975 and 1977, the stadium was expanded once again, which eventually led to a number of seats from 76 123.

In 1993 and 1994, the newly founded Colorado Rockies began to play mode in Mile High Stadium, in the two years, the Rockies had the best average attendance in Major League, with 4.48335 million viewers in the 1993 season, they have the best visit of all times in baseball. The Rockies were in 1995 with the Coors Field their own, pure ballpark relate.

In order to use the stadium for both baseball and football for the east side of the stadium was movable, the huge, three-story grandstand was moved hydraulically and weighed about 4,000 tons.