mile high stadium
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YESTERYEAR: Broncos stadium project debated, Hickenlooper again wins mayor
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Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The issue of a “new” stadium for the Denver Broncos turned two bill sponsors against one another when Rep. Vickie Agler, R-Littleton, House co-sponsor of SB 97-230 — a bill that allowed for consideration of a re-fit of Mile High Stadium — accepted an amendment that Senate sponsor Mike Coffman,…
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Noonan: TABOR is 25 and too alive and too well
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Colorado’s population in 1992 was 3.5 million. Census projections put the state’s population in 2017 at 5.5 million. In 1992, 812,308 citizens – 53.68 percent of voters – said yes to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), and 700,906 citizens – 46.32 percent of voters – said no. Not to make too fine a point,…
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Broncos get naming rights to stadium from Sports Authority
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The Denver Broncos have taken over the naming rights to their stadium from Sports Authority. After missing its latest contract payment, Sports Authority asked a bankruptcy judge earlier this month to allow it to transfer the rights to the team. KMGH-TV reported Tuesday that the judge has signed off on the deal. The estate of the…
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The Hot Sheet, February 4, 2016
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DENVER – Happy Thursday everybody — time for a throwback. Read the Statesman’s Ernest Luning’s Yesteryear column and reminisce the olden political days with us: Denver Mayor Wellington Webb stands up for the old Mile High Stadium name, tension mounts between members under the Capitol dome over Amendment 23 and prayer, and more. #TBT The old Mile…
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Yesteryear: Webb blasts new stadium name, school funding fights loom
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Denver Mayor Wellington Webb lamented a vote by the Metropolitan Football Stadium District board naming the new stadium “Invesco Field at Mile High,” saying “a piece of Denver history and tradition was lost despite the overwhelming public sentiment to keep ‘Mile High Stadium’ as the…
