Albertsons Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in the western United States, located on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. This is the home field of the Boise State Broncos of the Western Mountain Conference. Known as the Bronco Stadium for its first 44 seasons, its name was changed in May 2014 when Albertsons, a grocery store chain founded by Boise locals Joe Albertson, bought the naming rights.
Opened 48 years ago in 1970, it's also a song & amp; stadium field and host NCAA track & amp; The field championship was twice, in 1994 and 1999. The stadium was widely used for local high school football for decades until August 2012, when the match moved several blocks to the northeast to the new Dona Larsen Park, which is also a new place in Boise State house track & amp; field team.
Albertsons Stadium is widely known for its unusual blue game surfaces, installed in 1986, while Boise State is in the Big Sky Conference. This is the first non-green playground (outside of the painted final zone) in football history and remains the only one among the NCAA Division I FBS schools for nearly 20 years.
Since 1997, the company has organized "Famous Idaho Potato Bowl" (also called Humanitarian Bowl from 1997 to January 2004 & 2007 to 2010; and MPC Computers Bowl from 2004 to 2006), which is the longest outdoor bowl game in cold weather place.
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Albertsons Stadium is located on the east end of the BSU campus, bordered by Broadway Avenue to the east, University Drive to the south, and Boise River to the north. The height of the playing field is 2,695 feet (820 m) above sea level.
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History
Albertsons Stadium is the first place to hold its name. However, when it was Bronco Stadium, it was the fourth and second place of the same name in Boise State; three stadiums on campus were built in 1940, 1950, and 1970, respectively.
Public School Field
During his first years on his original campus, BJC football was played in "Public School Field", located three blocks north-northeast of Albertsons Stadium today. This site was East Junior High School from 1953 to 2009 until it was demolished and rebuilt under Warm Springs Ave., and the previous area became Dona Larsen Park in 2012.
Field College
After the campus moved to its current campus in 1940, "College Field" opened in September 1940 with a 1,000 seat and seating capacity. Also called "Chaffee Field", it was used until 1949 for junior college football (photo - 1940s). In the 1950s it became a baseball field, aligned southeast, until the right field was shifted by the construction of the Student Union Building, which opened in 1967. The baseball field migrated slightly eastward, then north, with a new northeast and alignment of the house plates at (< span> 43.60317Ã, Â ° N 116.20043Ã, Â ° W / 43.60317; -116.20043 ). It was eliminated in 1980 by the construction of the BSU Pavilion and the relocation of the tennis courts. (Baseball was dropped by BSU and Idaho after the 1980 season; the Broncos played a home game at Borah Field during their last season.)
Bronco Stadium (I)
The first "Bronco Stadium" was built in three months in 1950 on the eastern edge of the campus, with wooden tribunes, natural grass courts, lights, and cinder trajectories; seating capacity is 10,000. It's around the same location as the stadium now, but aligned northwest to southeast. (Photo - 1964) The 45 Â ° offset is designed to keep the mid-afternoon sun mid-October from the players' eyes (but put it into the eyes of half of the audience).
From 1920 to 1968, the University of Idaho Vandals of Moscow usually played one home game per season in Boise, often against schools from Oregon or Utah. Boise State joined Big Sky in 1970, and Idaho stopped the practice of scheduling home games in Boise, sometimes referred to as "south homecoming." (Idaho did use the new Bronco Stadium for the "home" game in 1971, but it was against Boise State in the first football game ever played between schools.The new Idaho stadium on campus in Moscow was late from schedule, so the university rented Bronco Stadium for the opening game. "Visitors" underdog Boise State built a 28-7 lead in the half-time and won 42-14 easily and rival matches were born.)
Boise College football program was upgraded from junior college to a four-year status in 1968 and competed as an independent NAIA for two seasons. The school became Boise State College in 1969 and the Broncos were accepted into the NCAA in October. A month later the school was elected to the Big Sky Conference, effectively falling 1970. After the 1969 football season, the first Bronco Stadium was demolished in November and the new concrete stadium was ready to play in less than ten months.
Stadium Bronco (II)
Boise State started the NCAA competition in 1970 in the College Division (becoming Division II in 1973) in a new place. The first match at the new Bronco Stadium was on September 11, a 49-14 victory over Chico State. The $ 2.2 million concrete stadium opens with a seating capacity of 14,500 and a green AstroTurf playground, configured in a traditional north-south direction, and an all-weather runway. For its first five seasons, the stadium consists of two sideline tribunes, the west side has an upper deck and a press box. (photo - 1971) Boise State became a member of the Second Division charter when the NCAA reorganized the former College Division in 1973.
After the 1974 season, the first school as Boise State University, a top deck was added to the east side (photo - 1971) - (photo -1975), adding 5,500 seats as well as symmetry to the stadium. The capacity of permanent seating grew to 20,000 for the sixth season of the Bronco Stadium in 1975, with up to 2,600 seats available while in the northern end zone seating for the bigger game. The original artificial grass was replaced by the same one in 1978 when Big Sky and Broncos moved into the newly formed Division I-AA. (photo - mid 1980s)
The Broncos moved to the Big West and Division I-A in 1996, which resulted in another stadium expansion. The two-tier grandstands expanded around the corners of the southern end zone, increasing the capacity of the permanent seating to 30,000 in 1997. The final stadium expansion was completed in season 2008, with the addition of Stueckle Sky Club press boxes, luxury suites, loge boxes, and club seating; increasing its capacity to 32,000. In the summer of 2009, 1,500 additional bleach seats were added to the southern end zone to bring the capacity up to 33,500. Prior to the 2012 season, expanded bleach parts were added to the north and south end zones, extending the capacity up to a total of 36,387.
Lyle Smith Field
During the 11th season, the playing field at Bronco Stadium was named Lyle Smith Field during the I-AA national championship of the 1980 season. The ceremony during a 14-3 win over Nevada on Nov. 8 marked the event. It honors Lyle H. Smith, head coach of 1947-1967 and the athletic director of 1968-1981, overseeing the rise of BSU from junior college level to the Division I-AA championship in 1980.
Smith led Boise, as BJC, to several post-season bowls, including the national junior college championship in 1958, and compiled an overall record of 156-26-8 (.842), which included five unbeatable seasons. and 16 conference titles. He was also a baseball coach for 17 seasons and served as a basketball coach for a season at school. Smith hired Tony Knap to replace himself as a football coach in 1968, and Jim Criner to replace Knap in 1976.
The current attendance record is 36,864, set on September 20, 2012 against BYU.
Basque Soccer Friendly
In 2015, the stadium hosts a football match on July 18, named Basque Soccer Friendly, between Athletic Bilbao of La Liga vs. Club Tijuana of the MX League. To accommodate the game, the natural grass surface is laid on the famous blue grass to conform to La Liga rules. This is the first time since 1985 that the stadium features a green surface for every sporting event. Before the 21,948 crowd, Athletic Bilbao won 2-0.
Artificial turf
Albertsons Stadium is best known for its unique blue game surface, which is the only non-green football field between the FBS Division I program from Boise State to where the FBS is now in 1996 until Eastern Michigan installed a gray surface at the Rynearson Stadium in 2014..
ESPN's Chris Berman also mentions Boise's grass "The Blue Plastic Tundra", a reference joke about the "frozen tundra" from Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Another nickname for the surface is "Turf Smurf." Players call it simply "The Blue."
After sixteen seasons playing at the standard green AstroTurf, the athletic director Gene Bleymaier came up with the idea of ​​installing blue grass. He decided that, if BSU would spend $ 750,000 on a new surface, he did not want to see BSU install other green fields, and that the blue field might provide some national notoriety for the school, then a member of the Big Sky Conference. Bleymaier received support from President BSU John Keizer, and on September 13, 1986, Bronco Stadium unveiled his unique game surface to the world with a 74-0 victory over the Humboldt State Division II. (BSU 4-2 at home in 1986, but managed just one road win and posted his first loss record in four decades, resulting in the resignation of fourth-year head coach Lyle Setencich.)
BSU replaced the first blue AstroTurf with the same in 1995, then with blue Astroplay (a more forgiving synthetic surface than the traditional AstroTurf) in 2002. The AstroPlay field lasted only six seasons and was replaced in the summer of 2008 with a blue FieldTurf surface. Due to a complaint by fans that the reflection and glare on the field gave a new field of dim and uneven blue color, FieldTurf agreed to replace this field for free. The fifth blue grass was installed in summer 2010.
The unique blue plains have given birth to some myths. The most common is that the NCAA was then forbidden to play any surface color other than green, but let the Albertsons Stadium field stay blue under the grandfather clause. In fact, the NCAA never adopted such a rule. Each school can color the surface of the game (or any part, especially the end zone) whatever color it wants. Indeed, since 1986 other schools have non-green football fields including New Haven University (blue) and University of East Washington (red). On April 1, 2011, the University of Central Arkansas announced it would install a purple and gray striped field to Estes Stadium. In 2012, Lindenwood University in Belleville, Illinois, plays their first football season, on the field of homes with gray and gray lines alternately. The blue grass in Boise State remains the only colorless colorful field used by the FBS Division I program until June 2014, when Eastern Michigan announced it would install a gray FieldTurf surface at the Rynearson Stadium in 2014.
Another myth is that, misinterpreting the blue plane for large amounts of water, the birds have flown into the blue meadow and toward their death. Although Bronco head coach Chris Petersen claimed to have found a dead duck in the field in 2007, the origin of the duck on the field has never been confirmed.
The blue zone of BSU has become a very visible icon for the Broncos that the BSU gained US trademark registration for blue athletics in November 2009. In 2010, the trademark was extended to any non-green field.
In 2011, the NFL prohibited any play surface color other than green, named the "Boise Rules" rule in reference to the university, although this was more a reaction to the sponsorship effect because no team has ever proposed a different grass color for the field.. Also in 2011, the Western Mountain Conference banned Boise from wearing a blue all-round uniform during a home conference game, after complaints from other Western Mountain trainers that it was an unfair advantage. However, uniform restrictions have been removed from the 2013 season ahead, as part of a deal that made Boise State at MW after initially planned to leave the conference.
In October 2014, the blue field of Boise State surpassed the USA Today Fan Index list of the top 10 best areas in college football.
Upgrades/additions
When the Boise State football program rose to national prominence in early 2000, Albertsons Stadium became increasingly insufficient. The school completed a three-story complex on the west side of the stadium called Stueckle Sky Club (pronounced Stickle ). Construction began on February 11, 2007, and the facility was officially opened on August 27, 2008 with a gala for ticket holders before the first game on 30 August. It displays levels for new press boxes, luxury suites, loge boxes, and seating clubs and seating capacity upgrades to 32,000.
The exercise facility, named Caven-Williams Sports Complex, was officially opened in February 2006, and is located just northwest of Albertsons Stadium. The university added an additional temporary seat for 1,500 before the 2009 season. The removable bench increased the capacity to 33,500. It also added a permanent bench to the north and south end zone before the 2012 season, increasing the capacity of the Albertsons Stadium to a total of 37,000.
In late August 2010, the athletics department revealed an expansion plan for Albertsons Stadium. The first phase includes adding new facilities to the northern end zone to home football offices, weightlifting rooms, training rooms, equipment rooms and locker rooms. The plan also includes a 13,200 seat tribun. The next steps of the expansion plan include track removal, field decline, and the addition of 3,300 seats ahead of the first stadium deck, the completion of the southern tip horizontal hoop, the construction of the east side skybox, and the east side concourse renovation. The total cost for all planned expansions is about $ 100 million. The total seating capacity for the fully expanded Albertsons Stadium is estimated at around 53,000. In April 2012, the university broke the revised expansion expected to be completed by June 2013.
Domination of house
During the recent Boise State conference championship, the Albertsons Stadium has proven to be a tough spot for opponents. On December 2, 2017, the Broncos were 116-7 (.943) at home since the 1999 season with losses to Washington State in 2001, Boston College at the 2005 MPC Computers Bowl, TCU in 2011, San Diego State in 2012, New Mexico and Air Force in 2015 in a few consecutive weeks and to Virginia in 2017. The Broncos won 47 home conference matches straight from 1999 to 2011 and were unbeaten in a 10-year conference at WAC (40-0)). The Broncos are 111-6 (.949) in regular season home games since 1999, and have a winning streak of 65 regular season games from 2001 to 2011. Their current winning streak is 4.
Top 10 most-attended games
The stadium was expanded to 36,387 in 2012 and the highest number of attendees has come since then.
See also
- List of Boise State Broncos soccer seasons
- List of NCAA Division I football stadiums
- List of college football stadiums with non-traditional field colors
References
External links
- Bronco Sports.com - History of Albertsons Stadium
- World Stadiums.com - Albertsons Stadium
- The Broncos: A History of Boise State University, 1932-1994 - Sports Complex
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