Riverfront Stadium
- Cincinnati Bengals (NFL, 1970-1999 )
- Cincinnati Reds ( MLB, 1970-2002 )
- Cincinnati Bearcats (NCAA, 1990)
The Riverfront Stadium was a baseball and football stadium on the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States.
History
The construction of the stadium began on 1 February 1968. The construction costs amounted to 48 million U.S. dollars, and were comparatively low. The Cincinnati Reds opened the stadium on June 30, 1970 with a home game against the Atlanta Braves. The first home run in the new stadium succeeded on this occasion Hank Aaron.
The stadium was from 1970 to 1999 home of the Cincinnati Bengals NFL team, who moved subsequently in the new Paul Brown Stadium. In January 1982, the Bengals denied in Riverfront Stadium, the AFC playoff and won one of the coldest NFL games of all time. In addition, wearing the baseball team Cincinnati Reds MLB its home games from 1970 to 2002 from Riverfront Stadium. The Reds attracted to the 2003 season in the new Great American Ball Park has to offer.
Name Change
The Riverfront Stadium was renamed in September 1995 in Cinergy Field. It was named after the sponsor Cinergy Corporation, a former utility company headquartered in Cincinnati.
Special
The Riverfront Stadium was the first ballpark in which the playing field completely consisted of artificial turf. So was also the first game of a World Series that was ever played on artificial turf at Riverfront Stadium on the occasion of the World Series take place in 1970.
Demolition and new construction
The football team the Bengals was the first of the two clubs, who left the stadium. On August 19, 2000, the Paul Brown Stadium, which is only a few meters to the west is the old stadium, opened.
In order to realize the construction of the new baseball stadium for the Cincinnati Reds, the capacity of the Riverfront Stadium had to be reduced during the construction of the Great American Ball Park. The reason for this was that the new ballpark was built just to the east next to the old stadium.
After the end of the MLB season 2002, the stadium was demolished.