Keeler: Broncos won’t just be playing in Super Bowls. Thanks to Burnham Yard, we’ll be hosting them

Second stadium down one Yard to go Before you blow your top over the lid at Burham Yard the prospective home of the Denver Broncos starting in did you know that since the average temperature of a playoff home meeting in the Mile High City was degrees And that of the Broncos last postseason games in Denver eight of them per Pro-Football-Reference com were played in temperatures degrees or warmer The last five Empower Field playoff temps Snow down Broncomaniacs Denver won t just be playing in Super Bowls over the next decade We ll be hosting them The Broncos have been since Day of the franchise an key fabric and part of the society in Denver Broncos CEO Greg Penner communicated The Denver Post s Parker Gabriel in an unique interview Finding a site of that size that we could weave into the downtown area and all that just was incredibly unique combined with the historic nature of the site We have the bones of the old railyard and a couple of buildings and a unique site that we think enables us to create something unique and special both with the stadium and the mixed-use progress around it The Walton-Penner Group just raised the roof without raising taxes Despite overtures from Lone Tree and Aurora they re keeping the Broncos in Denver Where they belong In other words Penner and his wife Carrie Walton-Penner read the room the way Peyton Manning read defenses at the line of scrimmage We re really thrilled that they came with that partnership mentality and not like we ve seen in other cities You give us a bunch of money or we ll leave ' Colorado Gov Jared Polis stated The Post I think the Walton-Penner Family Ownership Group is deeply committed to Denver and deeply committed to the area No overt inhabitants money No political campaign No drama No games Well except the big stuff The biggest For decades the Super Bowl the Final Four the College Football Playoff the World Cup or WrestleMania had a reason to fly over the Front Range and wave to us while they were taking their respective parties elsewhere Not anymore You want a venue with -plus seats that can host Taylor Swift in March or April Check You want a venue where football fans can still feel the elements on an autumn gameday Got that too Open that bad boy up and let the Colorado sunshine in We don t need the cool kids on the coasts to tell us Denver is the best darn sports city in America But building a multi-purpose stadium at Burnham Yard gives the Front Range multiple more chances to prove it and on the largest stages imaginable New Orleans personnel in recent days estimated that Super Bowl LIX was worth more than billion in economic impact to the Crescent City San Antonio boasted an economic bump of million from hosting the Men s Basketball Final Four this past April You wouldn t want a piece of that The Penners do And thank goodness The goal is to create something that is ongoing on gameday Penner stressed to The Post but also for the rest of the year Related Articles Burnham Yard Broncos stadium reaction Elected leaders applaud largely private funding plan Everything you need to know about the new Broncos stadium planned at Burnham Yard Broncos name Burnham Yard preferred site for new stadium expansion Broncos sign former Cowboys RB Deuce Vaughn to practice squad A costly misunderstanding Titans Brian Callahan admits he didn t know NFL catch rule vs Broncos There s nothing wrong with Empower Field which opened in There s nothing all that right about it either at least from a real estate purview Even the best ideas like the best concrete get weathered by time Pro sports owners are playing a different level of Monopoly than they were three decades ago It s not just about owning Tennessee Avenue anymore It s about gobbling up St James Place and New York Avenue next door then making sure a row of strip malls restaurants and hotels get built on top of them Collect the rent funnel selected of that money to Bo Nix and Nik Bonitto pass GO collect Rinse Repeat Stadiums are so expensive to build that a single-use facility especially one available for - dates a year instead of - isn t cost-effective The land around Empower Field is owned by the Metropolitan Football Stadium District Whatever s built at Burnham Yard will be owned by the Walton-Penner Group and designed with a neighborhood in mind not just the stadium itself Oh there will be bumps That s inevitable The city s slated to foot the bill for masses improvements related to connectivity to the stadium exit ramps roads RTD etc And Tuesday s announcements didn t mention Personal Seat Licenses PSLs a one-time fee paid by fans for the right to buy a seat If there s a cloud rolling in behind all those rainbows it s that PSLs seem inevitable here too a survey the Broncos sent to fans in included that very subject Before you re shocked check out the latest stickers The Raiders offer a link to purchase PSLs via the squad website with being the cheapest single license available as of Tuesday morning The Titans have offered PSLs for Terrace Level seats at their new Nissan Stadium at a cost of roughly - per pop The Buffalo News broadcasted lower-level general admission PSL prices for the Bills new Highmark Stadium earlier this year were within the - range Would a Super Bowl be worth that Everyone who let hosting a World Cup slip away from soccer-mad Denver in should land a red card for life With this new district hopefully it won t happen again Five years down the line who knows In as a franchise the Broncos looked listless and lost a sleeping giant resting on the laurels of orange-and-blue bloods everywhere The Walton-Penner ownership group woke everybody up The beast is taking names now It s buying up land It s drawing castles in the sky And we hear you So do they A Denver playoff challenge played under a roof The late great super fan Tim McKernan must be rolling over in his barrel For what it s worth Penner sounds as if he wants to keep the lid off as much as manageable And for as several Broncos games as feasible He gets it All of it We yearned something that is true to our roots here and looked at domed stadiums Penner recounted The Post But we just thought that wouldn t enable us to take advantage of Colorado sunsets and Mile High views and playing in the elements if we choose to Give the Penners an inch they ll take a Yard All the way to the bank Want more Broncos news Sign up for the Broncos Insider to get all our NFL analysis