Dolphin Stadium is one of three facilities in the country to host NFL football and Major League Baseball
(Florida Marlins) in the same venue. (McAfee Coliseum in Oakland and the Metrodome in Minneapolis being
the others.) The facility also hosts University of Miami football, the FedEx Orange Bowl and is part of the Bowl
Championship Series rotation, home to the college championship game in 2009. It was completed in 1987 and
constructed at a cost of $115 million in private funds, then was renovated in 2007 at a cost of $250 million.
The stadium hosted the Super Bowl in 1989, 1995, 1999 and 2007 – the first time the championship was played
in a continuous rain – and will stage the big game again in 2010. On the club level of the stadium is the Gallery
of Legends, which includes a history of the team, classic photos and the players inducted into the Dolphins Honor
Roll, among them Dan Marino, Larry Csonka and Nick Buoniconti.
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