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High stage was a sports arena in Denver in Colorado, which was in professional use from 1948 to 2001. Most remarkably the former Home of Colorado Rockies of Colorado Major League and Denver broncos National Football League was Mile High Stadium known as Stadion Bears until 1968. Also home for Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer, Denver Gold Gold and smaller Baseball League of the United States of the United States. Denver's high altitude-1 mile (1.6 m) above the sea-water level of the stadium his name and resulted in what was considered the advantage of the domestic field.

Early years

The stadium was built by a native of Denver Bob how to hold a smaller league baseball. Initially, the grandstand was 17,000 seats. In the 1950s, the Bears stadium capacity was raised to approximately 23,000 seats, then to nearly 35,000 seats to suit the Major League baseball team. Mile High Stadium with StaL The homes of his first football team in 1960, when Denver Broncos became a member of the American Football League, which later merged with the National Football League.

Expansion

In 1968, the stadium was added to the upper deck and was sold to the city of Denver, which renamed it to a pleasant high stage. With the addition of these additional seats, the capacity was increased to about 50,000. Further expansion, including the third deck, increased capacity to approximately 63,000 in 1974 and by 1977 to approximately 75,000.

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retracting stands along the east side of the High Stadium Mile Fall allowed you to convert from a football field to a baseball field. Eastern stands could be included in the creation of a horseshoe for football games or removed to open the field for baseball game. With the addition of luxury apartment over the 80's and Colorado Rockiesv in 1993, he was prospering a nice high stage for several years.

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Rockies, however, moved to Coors Field in 1995. Broncos and Rapids moved to Field Invesco in 2001. Milly High Stadium was demolished in 2002. The process lasted three months and was completed on April 17, 2002.

Effects

altitude

It was generally believed that Denver's altitude gave the home team an advantage at the Mile High Stadium stadium. The bodies of players who regularly train and play at high altitudes will get used to the reduced oxygen content of air. However, guest players often consider it more difficult to breathe at higher altitudes. In addition, lighter air at high altitudes allows the balls to travel a little further through the air, a factor for which home teams can easily adapt because they are used to conditions. They can also build their teams to take advantage of high altitudes, such as a baseball team that gets more powerful hitters to take advantage of fact is a little easier to hit home runs.