Mile High Stadium (originally Bears Stadium) was a multi-purpose stadium that stood in Denver, Colorado, from 1948 until 2001.
It hosted the Denver Broncos, of the AFL and the NFL, from 1960-2000; the Colorado Rockies, of the National League of MLB, from 1993-1994; the Colorado Rapids, of MLS, from 1996-2001; the Denver Gold, of the USFL, from 1983-1985; and the Denver Bears and Denver Zephyrs, of minor league baseball's Western League, American Association, and PCL, from its completion in 1948, until 1992.
Famous quotes containing the words mile, high and/or stadium:
“I have got enough of the old masters! Brown says he has “shook” them, and I think I will shake them, too. You wander through a mile of picture galleries and stare stupidly at ghastly old nightmares done in lampblack and lightning, and listen to the ecstatic encomiums of the guides, and try to get up some enthusiasm, but it won’t come.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“I’m a Sunday School teacher, and I’ve always known that the structure of law is founded on the Christian ethic that you shall love the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself—a very high and perfect standard. We all know the fallibility of man, and the contentions in society, as described by Reinhold Niebuhr and many others, don’t permit us to achieve perfection.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)