Sports Authority Field at Mile High
- Colorado Rapids ( MLS) (2001-2006)
- Denver Broncos (NFL ) (since 2001)
- Denver Outlaws (MLL ) (since 2006)
- Rocky Mountain Showdown ( per year)
- CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013
Sports Authority Field at Mile High is a stadium in Denver, Colorado, United States. The stadium is primarily used for home games of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League after their former homestead, which was Mile High Stadium, demolished in 2001. The football club Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer transfers since moving into the Dick's Sporting Goods Park in 2007, however, from no more home games at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
With the Sports Authority Field at Mile High, a six -year-old sports facility construction program of the city of Denver was completed, which included the nearby arenas Coors Field and the Pepsi Center. The football stadium was but since then occasionally used for other events. In August 2003, heavy metal band Metallica stepped in front of a record crowd of 100,000 spectators at the Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Around 84,000 people were there when the time of his Democratic Senator from Illinois Barack Obama on 28 August 2008 in his world publicized speech accepting the nomination for the presidential nomination. The name of the stadium " Mile High " is derived from the height above sea level. Denver is about a mile (1609 meters) above mean sea level, so that is the Sports Authority at Mile High, the highest NFL stadium.
Facts and Figures
- $ 364.2 million construction cost
- 76.125 spectators
- 158,000 m²
- Installed 65,000 m³ of concrete
- 195,000 m² of asphalt surfaces
- 91 tonnes of aluminum
- 12,000 tons of structural steel
- 3.861 million working hours
- 130,000 bricks