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:
“smile
As you find a rhythm
Working you, slow mile by mile,
Into your proper haunt
Somewhere, well out, beyond . . .”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)