NEW: Will a new Denver Broncos owner mean a push for a new stadium, too? by sam_tabachnik
to move the team to Hartford after Connecticut offered him a $380 million stadium on the waterfront. He later backed out and kept the team in Foxborough, Massachusetts, after the state agreed to pay $70 million in infrastructure improvements.
Bowlen purchased the Broncos in 1984 from Edgar Kaiser, inheriting Mile High Stadium, where the team had played since its American Football League inception in 1960. But the legendary facility was getting old, and Bowlen, by the mid-’90s, believed it could no longer host a championship-contending squad.Broncos and 49ers players warm up before the final regular-season game at Mile High Stadium in Denver on Dec. 23, 2000.
Ultimately, the Broncos owner spent big money — and hired a team of high-powered lobbyists — to push a pro-stadium ballot measure over the goal line.across six metro counties in November 1998 said yes to a sales tax extension that would have taxpayers foot the bill for roughly $300 million of the $400 million, 76,000-person stadium, later named Invesco Field at Mile High.
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