Official Site of the Broncos · Jul 22, 2015
Broncos helped set a trend by taking camp back home
In 2003, just over one-third of the league's teams had training camp at their facilities. Today, 62.5 percent of the teams stay at home.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- For those Broncos fans who believed in omens, the first day of practice at their team's first Dove Valley training camp in 2003 was frightening.A wild thunderstorm blew through just before the start of the second half of their two-a-day workload, taking the club's 13-year-old practice bubble with it. Blankets of white canvas once used in the pressurized dome flapped in the breeze, then settled on the an AstroTurf field that once sat beneath the bubble, now drenched by the first storm it had ever experienced.
