They have been playing football at the University of Alabama for over 118 years, but it was almost four decades before Alabama began playing their football at what is now known as Bryant-Denny Stadium. In the beginning Alabama did not have a home football field so some of the Crimson Tide's first football games were held at locations like Rickwood Field in Birmingham. After that, but before Denny Stadium, the University of Alabama played its football games at a location called Denny Field which was located just a couple of blocks east of the present day site of today's Bryant-Denny Stadium.
When Bryant-Denny Stadium was completed in 1929 it could only accommodate about 12,000 fans, but now the University of Alabama is home to one of the the finest football stadiums in the nation, bar none. Over the decades Bryant-Denny was expanded and improved over eight different times, in fact the University of Alabama has just completed a 80.6 million dollar expansion just in time for the 2010 season. That expansion added an additional 9462 seats and 36 new skyboxes which brings the total of skyboxes at Bryant-Denny to 159 and its seating capacity to 101,812.
My visit to Tuscaloosa and Bryant-Denny took place at the first game ever held in front of over 101,000 screaming Alabama fans. It was quite an impressive sight, I must say.
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