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The stadium opened in 2006 as Cardinals Stadium. Later that year in September, the University of Phoenix acquired naming rights, renaming it University of Phoenix Stadium, in what was then a 20-year agreement. It was renamed in September 2018 for insurance company State Farm, which has an 18-year naming rights deal. [11] [12]
Glendale (/ ˈ ɡ l ɛ n d eɪ l /) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. Located about nine miles northwest of the state capital Phoenix, Glendale is known for State Farm Stadium, which is the home of the Arizona Cardinals football team. The city also contains the Arrowhead Towne Center shopping mall.
On December 12, 1884, the War Department designated 9 acres (3.6 ha), including the site of the old post cemetery, as San Francisco National Cemetery. It was the first national cemetery established on the West Coast and marks the growth and development of a system of national cemeteries extending beyond the battlefields of the Civil War.
Opened May 30, 1854, Lone Mountain Cemetery was planned to cover 320 acres. [4] However the cemetery planners decided a smaller size would suffice the city. [4] In 1854, this area was considered one of the "outside lands", meaning it was outside of what was considered the city of San Francisco and was made of sandy soil. [4]
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The team plays its home games at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, [6] a suburb northwest of the state capital of ...
San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home, San Francisco; San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco; San Francisco Marine Hospital, was a former psychiatric hospital (operated from 1875 to 1912) with an adjacent cemetery, some of the graves are still visible as of 2006. [18] [19] West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II
In 1902 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors prohibited further burials within the city. By late 1910, cremation was also prohibited. [3] The Odd Fellows, forced to abandon their cemetery, established Green Lawn Cemetery in Colma. Transfer of bodies began in 1929 and many families also chose to remove their urns from the Columbarium.
They are ranked by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can normally accommodate. All U.S. stadiums with a current capacity of 10,000 or more are included in the list. The majority of these stadiums are used for American football , either in college football or the National Football League (NFL).