The Miami Dolphins (pro football) and the Miami Hurricanes ( University of Miami football) both play in the stadium. It replaced the Orange Bowl, Miami's other football stadium. The stadium is in Miami Gardens, Florida, which is part of the Miami metropolitan area. Hard Rock Stadium is a stadium where football, soccer, and other sports are played. University of Miami Hurricanes (NCAA) (2008 – present)
*Expandable to approximately 68,000 for baseballįlorida Atlantic Owls ( NCAA) (2001 – 2002)įedEx Orange Bowl (1996 – 1998), (2000 – present)īlockbuster/Carquest/MicronPC/Champs Sports Bowl (1990 – 2000) The architecture is exquisite, innovative, colorful and dazzling.Joe Robbie Stadium (1980 - 1986,1987 – 1996) "We're very proud of the experience the fans are going to have here," Loria said about the stadium that finally was built after countless fruitless negotiations between three different Marlin ownerships and south Florida bureaucrats. The Marlins' diamond-encrusted 2003 world championship rings, each of which is the size of your standard Oreo cookie, always will be the baseball gold standard for wretched excess. As for that garish "Home Run Feature" in center - a cacophony of Miami colors and the city's unique features including pink flamingos, green palm trees, a bright yellow sun and blue Marlins, one of which supposedly dives off the top, presumably into the water at the bottom of the painted mural, setting off water fountains from behind with every Marlin home run - well, if it's a little over the top that's just the way Loria is sometimes.
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You could hardly tell, gazing out through the massive hurricane-proof glass windows that stretch from the left-field corner to straight center field, which offer a spectacular view of the Miami skyline from the upper deck level. On first blush, you'd have to say Marlins owners Jeffrey Loria and David Samson got everything right, even if everything wasn't quite working only three days before the official opening of the baseball season here Wednesday night. The ballpark itself, with all its unique features - from the aquarium ringing the area behind home plate, to the swimming pool in left, to the 73-foot tall multicolored "home run feature" in center (which reportedly cost $2.5 million but wasn't yet working) - was the star attraction. Indeed, the Marlins and Yankees were merely the backdrop for the first game between major league teams in the $600 million Marlins Park Sunday. MIAMI - Once everyone was able to get past the sort of kinks you might expect from a dry run grand opening - little things like the general manager of the home team being told he couldn't board the elevator upstairs because it was for "media only," or Joe Girardi being stopped from attending his own press conference - the retractable roof ballpark that was 30 years in the making shines like a brilliant tropical green and glass gem in Little Havana where the deteriorating Orange Bowl once stood.
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