Mile High Stadium: Then And Now

[@lonniestephens6254]

A sports venue like Mile High Stadium was icon for its time.

[@cardphins68]

Cool video, I did not know about The Mile High Monument. It sort of reminds me of when they hang a players Jersey from the Rafters but the Monument being the Jersey. Thank you.

[@Jared40]

Cool fact that McNichols Arena was next door to Mile High Stadium was home to Nuggets and Avs. Went to many games for Broncos at old Mile High

[@ckap7276]

John Madden always wondered what Barrel Man wore under the barrel. Pat Summeral always answered by saying that was a question he did not want to know the answer to.

[@samdoggtheinfamous253]

Good stuff brother. Love when you go to the sites too.

[@shaunconley208]

Great video! Love the 'on site' videos that you do. Hope to see more and enjoy your time in Denver!

[@assassinxsteveo]

Nice of you to include Barrel-Man!!! Got to meet him once!! Classic Denver legend!!!

[@jdspreest]

looks like they repainted the former site of the home plate area to correct where the plate faced. When I went last year in June to visit, it was facing the other way, towards the street up on the hillside.

[@lionsfan7500]

There were some really big games played there when I was a kid and the biggest game was probably the game called The Fumble which was the AFC Championship game when Etnest Byner fumbled the goal line trying to score the winning touchdown for the original Cleveland Browns and The Brocos recovered the fumble and went to the Superbowl for the 2nd year in a row. This game was a year after the AFC Championship game that was called The Drive.

[@user-handlethetruth]

As a Browns' fan, those were the two most traumatic games of my life. I was in the dog pound with Elway driving towards the end zone in 2 degrees fahrenheit for the Drive game. Had to walk 1/2 a mile back to the car after that Winning field goal by a barefoot kicker, and could not feel my legs for half the walk. I had to wait 25 years to watch the replay of the game for the first time. The "fumble" game just the very next year seems surreal to me, still. I moved away from Cleveland in1990. Still a fan, but no longer take Cleveland losing personally. Cleveland, the city, has lost it's way, and the sports teams seem to be infected by the same losing disease.

[@chesterhasbro3698]

The Broncos should mark off the location of The Fumble. It could become a kind of Wailing Wall for Browns fans.

[@varthelm]

My first and favorite stadium for an NFL game. I was 11 years old, three rows from the top and, since the place was built like an Erector set, the fans could cause much of it to rattle and shake by stomping their feet. It felt like an earthquake when sat high and the place rumbled with "Rocky Mountain Thunder". New place was built with metal risers instead of concrete to generate a similar sound. Also, while multi-purpose, it was not like any of those cookie cutter round things one usually associates with that term. The stand rose straight up from the field for football basically and when converted for baseball, a full third of the stands were slid away from the rest of the stadium on tracks lined with a thin skin of water. Denver's minor league baseball team played there straight through from 1948 until the Rockies arrived 50 years later. The closeness of the stands, the attitude of the crowd to make as much noise as humanly possible, and the altitude made it one of the toughest and loudest places to play. It was an atmosphere I've not encountered since although Kansas City is the closest from a modern day perspective. It was unique and sported none of the niceties a modern venue had, was a fantastic place to experience a game.

[@matttodd7801]

I loved that place..The Grateful Dead played there in 1991 and it was fantastic..

[@DaveinNorthYork]

The funny thing is that the new Penner-Walton ownership group is now looking into the possibility of constructing a new venue in order to replace Empower Field at Mile High.

[@brunowskijr]

I just laugh at all the other teams in the AFC West, the raiders, and chargers, and now possibly the broncos, will have stadiums younger collectively that the age of the chiefs arrowhead stadium. There's nothing wrong with arrowhead and they will never tear it down

[@joedimaggio3687]

Why do they need a new stadium?

[@brunowskijr]

@@joedimaggio3687 they don't need one. They just want one to host a SB

[@joedimaggio3687]

@@brunowskijr who's going to pay for this?

[@brunowskijr]

@@joedimaggio3687 probably the city of Denver and counties surrounding Denver taxpayers. So me and everyone that lives here.

[@zylerzyzyx7333]

A couple of minor corrections: The old Mile High sat for football just shy of 77k. The only time it ever sat 80K+ was for the Rockies opening day in 1993. Extra bleachers were set up in the deep center field between the South Stands and the moveable east stands. The Rockies actually played two seasons in MHS, the 93 and strike-shortened 94 seasons. The Dodgers do have a legitimate chance of breaking the all-time attendance record because of the size of Dodger Stadium, especially if they add the seats in the outfield that they keep talking about.

[@Corwin1141]

The original Rock Pile. Those seats only costed a buck.

[@stevenhickey8636]

I once heard MHS called "the Chicago Stadium of outdoor venues". Having been to Chicago Stadium hundreds of times , that is the ultimate comparison. Loud , crazy fans , felt like seats on top of the field. Really would have loved to see the Broncos there.

[@Abognvm]

The Colorado Rapids also played there until it was demolished, then played at the new one for a while till they got their own stadium finally built

[@Jared40]

Cool you were in my state did you get to go to a game at Coors Field ??

[@hamelconsultancyllc]

Lol I used to live a block away from there in an apartment. Now I own a house about two mile south west of there in Barnum. Cool vid

[@deco983]

Nice!!

[@schmoab]

I never knew that monument was there, even though I lived in Denver for 2 decades. If you can check out an aerial picture of the city from the mid 90s and look at the building that has occurred between MHS and Coors Field. Go Rockies.

[@StichSquirt]

In 1990 they where just finished touches building an tge mouse trap high way above ground use to walk it all the time across so when they redo again

[@andyfrank9576]

Dont forget about the moveable sections of satnds for baseball.

[@StichSquirt]

I went to one of the very first games played by Colorado rockies with purple an blsck i think if remember correctly or purple sn white.

[@SHAd0Eheart]

The benches are in fact those of the infamous South Stands at mile high. The metal benches and flooring were so loud when stomped on it was very much part of the Bronco’s home field strategy at the time. The current south stands are just plastic and nowhere near as close to the field as before. As a result they are no louder than the rest of the stadium now 😢

[@wildsmiley]

Denver Bears, not Colorado Bears. And that was also the home plate for minor league Denver Zephyrs games, until they moved to New Orleans after the Rockies started playing. They're now the New Orleans Baby Cakes. I was born and raised in Denver and the only time I ever went to Mile High Stadium was for baseball games, be it the Zephyrs or later, the Rockies. I don't like football so I've never been to a Broncos game in my life.

[@djspicefla]

Cant forget about the USFL team Denver Gold.

[@DIMP11]

Forgotten Places, this must have been a painful visit for a Clevelander. John Bleeping Elway but you are too young to remember personally. I am not American but lived in the Bahamas, Canada and Bermuda and being 54 now in 2023, I watched the Drive and Fumble live while in boarding school and then college in Ottawa (Canada) respectively. I was ticked off at both.`

[@varthelm]

Then there was "The Noise" two years later. We were loud that day. I was always a bit torn. Family's from Cleveland, grew up in Denver. Loved Bernie's browns and the Cardiac Kids before them. Red Right 88.....grrrrrr

[@adamsmith583]

Freaking sweet

[@GMHstudios]

John Mayer?

[@deanfoster883]

Stomp on that ground with that Browns hat! Never to return!

[@gwats19577]

44-year Denver resident... The replacement stadium was built without a roof...stupid..