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The sci-fi sitcom Mork & Mindy also based a 1979 episode around the Denver Broncos cheerleaders with Mork ( Robin Williams ) trying out for the squad.
The Broncos, led by Morton and the Orange Crush Defense, made their first Super Bowl appearance after also posting a 12-2 regular season record and postseason wins over the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders.
The Giants also posted a Super Bowl record 30 points in the second half, and limited the Broncos to only 2 net yards in the third quarter.
Pro Bowl running back Sammy Winder was the Broncos ' top rusher with 789 yards and 9 touchdowns, while also catching 26 passes for another 171 yards and 5 touchdowns.
The Broncos also had a powerful offensive line, led by Pro Bowl guard Keith Bishop.
The Broncos also led the AFC with the fewest rushing yards allowed ( 1, 651 ).
He also was the Broncos ' leading rusher in the game, with 27 rushing yards and a touchdown on 6 carries.
The Broncos also possessed a solid defensive unit, led by outside linebacker Karl Mecklenburg, who recorded 7 sacks and picked off three passes, and defensive back Mike Harden with four interceptions.
The San Francisco defense also limited the Broncos to 167 yards, 12 first downs, and a time of possession to 20: 29.
The AFC Championship Game appeared to be the best defensive effort by Buffalo all season, as they held the Broncos to only a touchdown, while also limiting Elway to just 11 of 21 completions for 121 yards and no touchdowns, with 1 interception.
The Green Bay Packers also played the Denver Broncos in a preseason game in 1987.
Bill Romanowski, a business major, holds the defensive record as an NFL player for most consecutive games played at 243, is the only linebacker in history to start in 5 Super Bowls, and also shares a record as one of only three players in NFL history to win back to back Super Bowls with two different organizations, the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos.
2005 ) is also a Vanderbilt alum and was drafted in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos.
In 1999, the Broncos repeated this feat and Elway was awarded the MVP of Super Bowl XXXIII, throwing for 336 yards and one touchdown with one interception, while also scoring a rushing touchdown in Denver's 34 – 19 win over the Atlanta Falcons.
Also in 1999, Elway was ranked number 16 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the only player to have spent the majority of his career with the Broncos to make the list ( Willie Brown, who began his career with the Broncos but spent more of it with the Oakland Raiders, also made the list ).
Gilchrist also played for the Denver Broncos in 1965 and 1967, and for the Miami Dolphins in 1966.
( Marlin Briscoe, a wide receiver / defensive back for the Denver Broncos, also started several games as the Broncos ' third-string quarterback at around the same time as Harris, but he returned to wide receiver after leaving the Broncos.
He also played for the Denver Broncos, the Miami Dolphins, and the New York Jets.
It was the second time in 1995 that Elam had kicked a game-winning field goal in the final minute, in 1996 he converted 21 of 28 field goal attempts with a. 750 percentage and all 46 extra-point attempts to lead the Broncos with 109 points, also tied the team record for most extra points in a game with six against Baltimore Ravens in a 45 – 34 Broncos win, he connected on his only 50 + yard field goal of the 1996 season at San Diego in the regular-season finale.
His 51-yard field goal in Super Bowl XXXII against Green Bay Packers was the second longest in Super Bowl history since Steve Christie of the Buffalo Bills 54 yards field goal in the Super Bowl XXVIII as well as the longest in Broncos postseason history, also he passed the 500-point plateau with his final extra-point attempt at Seattle, becoming only the third Bronco in history to do so and the fastest in terms of games played ( 66 ), also he kicked the game-winning 33-yard field goal in overtime at Buffalo, the second time in his career that Elam had won a game for the Broncos in overtime.

Broncos and had
Their next game was on the road against the Denver Broncos, who had earned the AFC's top seed with a 13 – 3 record and were widely regarded as the best team in the AFC, if not the NFL.
By that time, the Broncos were 6 – 0, and had a 3 game lead over the Chargers.
By halftime, the Broncos had committed 7 turnovers.
In total, the Broncos had run 3 plays from the 1-yard line and lost 5 yards.
Parcells had entertained the possibility of running a fake punt and later said that if the Broncos were not going to pick up on Rutledge being used as a decoy for a potential fake, he would take advantage.
Defensively ; while the Broncos managed to bottle up Lawrence Taylor, Carl Banks had 14 tackles, 10 of which were unassisted and four of those for negative yardage, while Leonard Marshall had two sacks and forced a fumble.
After forcing Washington to go 3 and out, the Broncos ' scored on their first play from scrimmage, when quarterback John Elway threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to wide open receiver Ricky Nattiel, giving Denver a quick 7 – 0 lead after just 1: 57 had elapsed in the game.
By the time the period ended, the Broncos had more than twice as many total yards of offense ( 142 ) as the Redskins ( 64 ).
Furthermore, the Elway-led Broncos had already lost two Super Bowls.
In addition, the Bills could have easily been eliminated by the Broncos had Treadwell not missed 3 field goal attempts, 2 of which hit the uprights.
The Broncos ' offense, under the leadership of Elway and running back Terrell Davis, had another outstanding regular season, ranking 2nd in the NFL with 501 points and gaining 6, 276 yards ( 3rd in the league ).
But unlike the Broncos, Atlanta's success in the 1998 season was very surprising to many because they had a 7-9 record in the previous season and a 3-13 record the year before that.
Later in the quarter, Falcons defensive back Ronnie Bradford intercepted a pass from Elway ( that had bounced off Shannon Sharpe ) and returned it to the Broncos 35-yard line.
The Broncos have had three undefeated regular seasons in the last five years.
Behind him, the team had a solid veteran linebacker, Bill Romanowski, who was playing in his 5th Super Bowl ( after winning 2 championships with the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowls XXIII and XXIV, and 2 while playing for the Denver Broncos in Super Bowls XXXII and XXXIII ).
Dorsett had a career total of 12, 036 yards in Dallas before being traded to the Denver Broncos in 1988 for a conditional fifth-round draft choice.
In 1960, he had the first punt return for a touchdown in the American Football League, for the Denver Broncos.
The American Football League had the first black placekicker in U. S. professional football, Gene Mingo of the Denver Broncos ( Mingo's primary claim to fame, however, was as a running back, and was only secondarily a placekicker ); and the first black regular starting quarterback of the modern era, James Harris of the Buffalo Bills.
At that time, it had been five years since the Broncos appeared in the NCAA tournament.
* Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints, Nov. 8, 1970, Jason Elam of the Denver Broncos, Oct. 25, 1988 and Sebastian Janikowski of the Oakland Raiders, Sep. 12, 2011 had NFL record 63-yard field goals

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The Giants defeated the 49ers 49 – 3 in the divisional round of the NFC playoffs and the Redskins 17 – 0 in the NFC championship game, advancing to their first Super Bowl, Super Bowl XXI, against the Denver Broncos at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
They would go on to win the AFC West, ( their 4th straight division title, only Oakland with five straight 1972 – 1976 is better ), along the way blowing out the Denver Broncos with a convincing 32 – 3 victory at Denver and defeating every NFC East team.
The backbone of the Broncos was their defense, a unit known as the " Orange Crush ," which used a 3-4 formation anchored by four superb linebackers, including Randy Gradishar ( 3 interceptions, 4 fumble recoveries ) and Tom Jackson ( 4 interceptions, 93 return yards, 1 touchdown ).
Coming into Super Bowl XXII, the Broncos were favored to win (- 3 as noted on the NFL Today show by Jimmy " the Greek " Snyder ) because most experts thought both teams were equal in terms of talent with Elway presumed to be the superior quarterback to Williams.
Kicker David Treadwell finished the drive with a 42-yard field goal to cut the Broncos deficit to 7 – 3.
Denver's defense forced San Francisco to punt on their next drive after 3 plays, and receiver Vance Johnson gave his team good field position with a 7-yard return to the Broncos ' 49-yard line.
The Broncos demolished the Miami Dolphins, 38 – 3, and the New York Jets, 23 – 10, in the playoffs.
The Broncos then reached the Atlanta 8-yard line on their ensuing possession, but were forced to settle for kicker Jason Elam's 26-yard yard field goal to increase their lead, 10 – 3.
As of December 3, 2011, the Broncos are 82 – 3 at home since the 1999 season with the only losses being to Washington State in 2001, AP # 18 Boston College in the 2005 MPC Computers Bowl and to TCU in 2011.
Parcells, whose stifling 3 – 4 defense ( known as the Big Blue Wrecking Crew ) led by Lawrence Taylor, Carl Banks, Harry Carson, and Leonard Marshall, and an offense under the direction of Phil Simms, knocked off the San Francisco 49ers 49 – 3, and the Washington Redskins 17 – 0, in the playoffs before routing the Denver Broncos, 39 – 20, in Super Bowl XXI.
In the playoffs, Brady led the Patriots to a 28 – 3 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the wild card round ; however, on January 14, 2006, the Patriots lost 27 – 13 to the Denver Broncos at INVESCO Field.
That season with the Maroons he defeated New South Wales in a 3 nil whitewash in the State of Origin, but Bennett discontinued his representative coaching to focus on the Broncos.
Andy Murray ( born March 3, 1951 ) is the current head coach for the Western Michigan Broncos men's ice hockey team of the NCAA Division I Central Collegiate Hockey Association ( CCHA ).
The Denver Broncos attempting an onside kick in the fourth quarter against the St. Louis Rams on 11-28-2010, while trailing by 3.
In his single season with the Broncos, he started 13 of 16 games, recording 90 tackles and 3. 5 sacks.
On opening day of the 2011 NFL season, still at left defensive tackle next to Tommy Kelly, he recorded 2 sacks and 3 tackles as the Raiders defeated the Denver Broncos.
The film was number one in the Nielsen ratings during the night it aired, garnering a 23. 3 share ( the film outperformed a San Francisco 49ers-Denver Broncos game broadcast on ABC and a Cagney & Lacey episode on CBS ).

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