The party inside Empower Field at Mile High went on all summer long.

Concert stages have been replaced with Kentucky Bluegrass for the Broncos home preseason debut Saturday night against the Cardinals. It follows a busy summer music series where several major acts — Coldplay, Post Malone, The Weeknd, Metallica and The Lumineers — filled up Denver’s NFL stadium that first opened in August 2001.

“It was our busiest June ever,” Jay Roberts, the stadium’s general manager, told The Denver Gazette. “It was 350,000 people over 19 days with five concerts.”

Metallica broke the stadium’s two-show attendance record with more than 152,000 fans in attendance.

“We didn’t think that it was going to break the record about a month out. But as we got closer to the show and the buzz got bigger ... it rea

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