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The 1977 Denver Broncos season (also known as the Broncomania season) was the team's 18th year in professional football and its eighth with the National Football League (NFL). The team had what was then by far its best season at 12–2, finishing first in the AFC West , and making the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.
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 ...
The Denver Broncos were founded on August 14, 1959, when minor league baseball owner Bob Howsam was awarded an American Football League (AFL) charter franchise. [2] The Broncos won the first-ever AFL game over the Boston Patriots 13–10, on September 9, 1960.
On September 13, 1999, Elway's number 7 jersey was retired by the Denver Broncos during halftime of a Monday Night game against the Miami Dolphins; that same night he was inducted into the Denver Broncos Ring of Fame. Craig Morton, his direct predecessor in Denver, also wore number 7 and is in the Ring of Fame alongside Elway. He was the first ...
The Broncos won their first game, also the first AFL game, 13–10 over the Boston Patriots. [9] However, the Broncos would end the season with a 4–9–1 record. [ 10 ] After the season, Howsam, looking to sell his holdings in the Broncos, nearly made a deal with a San Antonio syndicate, but eventually a group led by Calvin Kunz purchased ...
In Denver, Broncos' TE Shannon Sharpe and Raiders' LB Bill Romanowski engage in a brawl. Raiders lose Super Bowl XXXVII. 2003: Broncos 2–0: Broncos 31–10: Broncos 22–8: Raiders 53–34–2 2004: Tie 1–1: Raiders 25–24: Broncos 31–3: Raiders 54–35–2 In Denver, Raiders' block the Broncos' potential game-winning field goal in the ...
One year earlier, the Browns and Broncos faced off for the conference championship at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Broncos quarterback John Elway led a game-tying, 98-yard touchdown drive that became known as simply The Drive, which sent the game into overtime where the Broncos won. For this matchup, things were not initially as close.
The 3:16 game was a National Football League playoff game between the Denver Broncos and the Pittsburgh Steelers on January 8, 2012. The game took place in the 2011–12 NFL playoffs and finished with five statistics that each contained three digits in the order 3–1–6. It was the first playoff game to go to overtime since a 2010 overtime ...