| abstract | - Bronco Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in Boise, Idaho, the home field of the Boise State Broncos of the Mountain West Conference. Since 1997, it has hosted the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (Humanitarian Bowl from 1997–Jan. 2004 & 2007–10; MPC Computers Bowl from 2004–06), the longest-running outdoor bowl game in a cold-weather venue. Opened in 1970, Bronco Stadium was also a track & field stadium; it hosted the NCAA track & field championships twice, in 1994 and 1999. The stadium was used extensively for local high school football for decades until August 2012, when games were transferred to the new Dona Larsen Park, which is also the new home venue of Boise State's track & field team. Bronco Stadium is widely known for its unusual blue playing surface, installed in 1986 as the first non-green playing surface (outside of painted end zones) in football history and remains the only one among NCAA Division I FBS schools.
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