What’s more fun on a Saturday
afternoon in the fall than sitting back, watching football and
splitting a pizza with your friends? Not much. If you agree, then
Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium is for you. The University of Louisville
Cardinals play their home games in front of perhaps the most
comfortable fans in the nation. All of Cardinal Stadium’s
56,000
seats are of the chairback variety. No other on campus stadium
can make this claim. Cardinal Stadium also features one of the
most modern press boxes in college football.
Louisville’s home stadium has the ability to expand to 80,000 seats as
well as featuring a state of the art training facility. One of
the most impressive features at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium is the
ability to treat injuries. The University of Louisville’s
partnership with Jewish Hospital and the Frazier Rehab Center provide
visitors the highest level of care possible with a full trauma center
and three fully staffed first aid stations. Outstanding features
such as this make Papa John’s
Cardinal
Stadium one of the very finest in the nation. It is also one of
the few college football stadiums that has
sold the naming rights. The stadium opened in 1998 with a seating
capacity of 40,000. In November 2006 the Louisville Athletic
Association Board of Directors approved a $63 million expansion that increased the capacity of Cardinal Stadium to
56,000. This
expansion was completed by the 2010 season, includes 2,000
luxury seats and 45 luxury suites on the east side. The current
grandstand was extended to the ends the Howard Schnellenberger
Football Complex and an upper deck was added to the east
grandstand.
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