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| Former names | Burdine Stadium (1937 – 59) | | Location | 1501 NW 3rd St.
Miami, Florida 33125
United States | | Broke ground | 1936 | | Opened | December 10, 1937 | | Closed | January 26, 2008 | | Demolished | May 14, 2008 | | Owner | City of Miami | | Operator | City of Miami | | Surface | Natural grass – (1976 – 2008)
PolyTurf – (1970 – 75)
Natural grass – (1937 – 69) | | Construction cost | $340,000 USD
(${{formatprice| }} in dollars ) | | Capacity | 23,330 (1937-1943)
35,030 (1944-1946)
59,578 (1947-1949)
64,552 (1950-1952)
67,129 (1953-1954)
76,062 (1955-1960)
72,880 (1961-1962)
70,097 (1963-1967)
80,010 (1968-1976)
80,045 (1977-1980)
75,500 (1981-1990)
74,712 (1991-1993)
74,476 (1994-2002)
72,319 (2003-2007) | | Tenants | Miami Hurricanes (NCAA) (1937 – 2007)
FIU Golden Panthers (NCAA) (2007)
Miami Tropics (football) (SFL) (2000)
Miami Seahawks (AAFC) (1946)
Miami Dolphins (AFL / NFL) (1966 – 86)
Super Bowls – (5) (II, III, V, X, XIII)
Orange Bowl (1938 – 95, 1999)
Playoff Bowl (NFL) (1961 – 70)
Miami Toros (NASL) (1972 – 76)
Miami Freedom (ASL / APSL) (1988 – 92)
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The Orange Bowl, formerly Burdine Stadium, was an outdoor athletic stadium in Miami, Florida, west of downtown in Little Havana. Considered a landmark, it was the home stadium for the Miami Hurricanes college football team. It also hosted the professional Miami Dolphins for their first 21 seasons, until the opening of Sun Life Stadium (then called Joe Robbie Stadium) in nearby Miami Gardens in 1987. The stadium was the temporary home of the FIU Golden Panthers while its FIU Stadium underwent expansion during the 2007 season.
Burdine Stadium was renamed in 1959 for the Orange Bowl college football game, which was played at the Orange Bowl following every season from 1938 – 95. The event was moved to Dolphin Stadium beginning in 1996. In 1999, the bowl game was hosted at the Orange Bowl for one final time due to a scheduling conflict. The minor league Miami Marlins baseball team occasionally played games in the Orange Bowl from 1956-60.
The stadium was on a large block bounded by Northwest 3rd Street (south), Northwest 16th Avenue (west), Northwest 6th Street (north) and Northwest 14th Avenue (east, the open end of the stadium).
The Orange Bowl was demolished in 2008 to make way for the new 37,000-seat retractable-roof baseball stadium of the Florida Marlins scheduled to open in 2012.
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