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Empower Field at Mile High [note 1] is an American football stadium in Denver, Colorado. Its primary tenant is the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). It opened in 2001 to replace the Broncos' original home, the old Mile High Stadium .
By 1968, the facility was sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association, though it would not be until 1977 that an NHRA national event was held at the facility for the first time. In 1978, the first "Mile-High Nationals" event was hosted, elevating the track's status from a small local track to larger recognition in the racing community. [3]
Mile High Stadium (originally Bears Stadium until 1968) was an outdoor multi-purpose stadium located in Denver, Colorado, from 1948 to 2002. The stadium was built in 1948 to accommodate the Denver Bears baseball team, [ 5 ] which was a member of the Western League during its construction.
Unlike the free-form happening in upstate New York, the Denver festival had the full support and local resources of a major city, taking place in Denver Mile High Stadium. There were high expectations for the Festival; it was commonly called the "First Annual" Denver Pop Festival.
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In American football, the Snowball Game was the November 11, 1985, National Football League game between the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos.It was notable for a play in which spectators at Denver's Mile High Stadium disrupted a 49ers' field goal attempt by throwing snowballs from the stands.
The following year, he attended his first national comics convention, Multicon in Oklahoma City, [4] where he sold $1,800 USD in comics in three days. It was at this point that he realized comics retailing could be a career. [citation needed] He opened the first Mile High Comics store in Boulder, Colorado, in 1974 [3] with $800 in cash and ...
Miles was preceded as the Broncos' mascot by Huddles, "a horse on his hind legs, with a big helmet.” [2] (Huddles was performed during the Broncos' 1986 Super Bowl season, by a then-teenage Michael Hancock, later mayor of Denver).