Sun Devil Stadium Tickets

Sun Devil Stadium
The Sun Devil Stadium was opened in 1958 and is located at 500 E. Veterans Way, Tempe, Arizona, 85281, United States of America.

The stadium can be reached by a number of routes that includes the routes from the West, from Scottsdale, from North, from the East Valley and from the Sky harbor Airport. The stadium is owned and operated by Arizona State University.

The stadium was built with a cost of 1 million dollars with a playing surface of Bermuda grass and has the capacity of 73,379 people. This outdoor football stadium was previously the home to NFL"s Arizona Cardinals and from 2006 till now it"s the home to Arizona State Sun devils.

The stadium has passed through four renovations since its opening. The first renovation to the stadium was done in 1976 which enlarged its seating capacity. Then the second renovation was done in 1977 when its seating capacity was again enlarged.

Another renovation was done ten years later in 1988 to enlarge its seating capacity again. In 1958, Arizona State played the first football game against West Texas State in the stadium.

In 1996, the name of the stadium was changed to Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field in the honor of a former football coach, Frank Kush. In 1987, Pope John Paul 2 visited United States of America and addressed a crowd of 75,000 people in the stadium.

The stadium made a number of television and film appearances namely, Jerry Maguire, the Amazing Race 4, rattle and Hum, Let"s Spend the Night Together and Raising Arizona. Some renovations are needed at the stadium currently and the engineers have estimated that the renovations will cost 45 million dollars.

All the events held at the stadium are entertaining and thrilling. People form far off places come to watch the games being played here and take away with them happy memories of a good sport.