When 75,000 people descend from all points of the Front Range and beyond for Denver’s regular-season finale against Kansas City on Sunday, they will congregate in the only spot professional football in Colorado has ever known.
The building’s changed, but the Broncos have played at the same dot on the map since joining the AFL in 1960.
The question of whether the Broncos remain at Mile High beyond the next few years remains an open one. The franchise is moving steadily toward an inflection point — the end of its lease with the Metropolitan Football Stadium District, which runs through 2030 — and the decision of whether to stay and renovate, stay and rebuild or move elsewhere in the Denver area is one that takes years to unravel.