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Super Bowl XII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1977 season. The Cowboys defeated the Broncos 27–10 to win their second Super Bowl.
With the AFC Championship win over the defending Super Bowl champion Raiders on New Year's Day, [2] Denver earned a berth in Super Bowl XII, but fell 27–10 to the NFC champion Dallas Cowboys. [3] Despite the defeat in the Super Bowl, 1977 was a major leap for the Broncos, who had never won more than nine games in a season.
January 9, 1977 Oakland Raiders A (2, 1–1) 32–14: ... they were eliminated in the AFC Championship Game by the eventual Super Bowl 50 champion Denver Broncos.
He spent his final six seasons as a member of the Broncos, winning NFL Comeback Player of the Year and AFC Offensive Player of the Year in 1977. Morton is the first starting quarterback to appear in the Super Bowl with more than one franchise, having helped lead the Cowboys to Super Bowl V and the Broncos to Super Bowl XII. He is also the only ...
The National Football League playoffs for the 1977 season began on December 24, 1977. The postseason tournament concluded with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XII, 27–10, on January 15, 1978, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The 1977 season is considered the last season of the "Dead Ball Era" of professional football (1970 to 1977). The 17.2 average points scored per team per game was the lowest since 1942 , and it was the only post-merger NFL season where no player surpassed 1,000 receiving yards.
Empower Field at Mile High, where the Broncos have played their home games since 2001.. The Denver Broncos are an American football franchise based in Denver, Colorado.Founded by Bob Howsam on August 14, 1959, the team was one of the founder members of the American Football League (AFL), which began in 1960, before merging with the National Football League (NFL) ahead of the 1970 season, [1 ...
[3] [4] Shanahan was the first Broncos head coach to win a Super Bowl following the 1997 season, and repeated the feat following the 1998 season. The Broncos next Super Bowl victory was for Super Bowl 50 following the 2015 season under the leadership of coach Gary Kubiak who had previously played for Denver and served as an assistant coach.