Sun Devil Stadium
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Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field is located on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe. It is home to the Arizona State University Sun Devils college football team and was the home of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals from 1988 to 2005.
Built in 1958, the stadium now seats 73,379. The original seating capacity was 30,000 in 1958. The first addition in 1976 raised capacity to 57,722. Seating was added to the south end of the stadium, along with press and sky boxes. A year later, in 1977, the upper tier was completed to bring seating to 70,491. In 1988, 1,700 more seats were added to bring the facility to the current capacity. During that time the Carson Student Athlete Center was added to the south end. The building is the home of the ASU Athletic Department. On September 21, 1996, the playing surface was named in honor of former ASU football coaching great, Frank Kush, and the name of the stadium was changed from Sun Devil Stadium to Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field.
The first game to be played at the stadium was on October 4, 1958. Arizona State defeated West Texas State 16-13. Sun Devil Stadium hosted college football's Fiesta Bowl from 1971 to 2006, and it was the site of Super Bowl XXX in 1996. The largest crowd ever seated at the stadium was 74,963 for an Arizona State v. University of California, Berkeley football game won by ASU 35-7, on November 9, 1996.
This college football facility became an NFL stadium in 1988, when the St. Louis Cardinals moved to Arizona and became the Phoenix Cardinals (renamed Arizona Cardinals in 1994).
In 2006, the Cardinals will move from Sun Devil Stadium to Cardinals Stadium in another Phoenix suburb, Glendale. The new stadium will also host the Fiesta Bowl, and the separate BCS title game as well as Super Bowl XLII in 2008. Arizona State will continue to use Sun Devil Stadium, which will now host the Insight Bowl.
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| Preceded by: Busch Stadium II 1960–1987 | Home of the Arizona Cardinals 1988–2005 | Followed by: Cardinals Stadium 2006– |
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