Denver Broncos
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| Founded in 1960 playing in Denver , Colorado |
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American Football League (1960-1969)
National Football League (1970-present)
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| Team colors | Blue, orange, white | |
| mascot | Thunder II , Miles | |
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| owner | Pat Bowling | |
| General manager | John Elway | |
| Head coach | Vic Fangio | |
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| Orange Crush (1977-1979 Defense); Elway Attack; No Fly Zone (Defense) | ||
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| NFL Champion (3) | ||
Conference winner (8)
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Division Winner (15)
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| Play-off appearances (22) | ||
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The Denver Broncos are an American football team of the National Football League (NFL) and play in the American Football Conference (AFC) in the Western Division . The team from Denver , Colorado is named after semi-wild or untamed horses ( English broncos ).
history
The Denver Broncos were one of the founding members of the American Football League (AFL) in 1960 . They played in the Western Division. On September 9, 1960, the Broncos won in Boston the first game of AFL against the Boston Patriots . However, the rest of the season was not as successful as hoped. They ended the first season with four wins, nine losses and one draw. The other years in the AFL were not successful for the Broncos either. In the first ten years of AFL history, the Broncos were the only team to have more wins than losses in any season. After the AFL and NFL merged, the Broncos played in AFC West. It was not until the new coach John Ralston that the Broncos succeeded in 1973, the first season in which they could achieve more wins than losses. In the next few years under the coach Ralston they were always second in their division. Under the next coach Red Miller , the Broncos were able to move into the play-offs after twelve wins in the 1977 regular season . The key to success lay in the good defense of the Broncos, which was known under the name "Orange Crush" and allowed only 148 counterpoints in the season. In the first play-off game the Pittsburgh Steelers and in the AFC Championship Game the Oakland Raiders could be beaten. The Broncos were in Super Bowl XII . It was the first Super Bowl that was played in a hall. In New Orleans, the Broncos lost to the Dallas Cowboys at 10:27. 1978 won the Broncos again the division title, but failed in the play-offs to the Steelers. After the Broncos could not qualify for the play-offs in 1980, the coach Red Miller was replaced by Dan Reeves .
In 1983 the Broncos were able to secure the draft rights to quarterback John Elway , who had previously refused to play for the Baltimore Colts . This began a successful time for the Denver Broncos. In the 16 seasons with Elway, the Broncos reached the play-offs ten times. They reached Super Bowl XXI in Pasadena against the New York Giants . The Giants lived up to their role as favorites and won 39:20. The next year the Broncos were again in the Super Bowl. They clearly lost the Super Bowl XXII in San Diego with 10:42 against the Washington Redskins . Just two years later, the Broncos reached Super Bowl XXIV . This became an embarrassment for the Broncos. The 10:55 loss to the San Francisco 49ers is the biggest loss in a Super Bowl. The relationship between quarterback Elway and coach Reeves became very difficult. In the last three years under Reeves, the team could only qualify for the play-offs once. The quarrels between Elway and Reeves became so great that the Broncos hired Wade Phillips as their new coach in 1993 . After unsatisfactory results, Phillips was replaced by Mike Shanahan , who was previously an assistant coach at the Broncos. Mike Shanahan coached the Broncos for 14 seasons. The Broncos had a reputation for being a losing team during this period. The team and John Elway were portrayed as failures in the animated series The Simpsons . This changed in the 1997 season. After a good season, the Broncos moved into Super Bowl XXXII . In San Diego they faced the reigning champion Green Bay Packers . Against all bad memories and prophecies of doom in advance, the Broncos were able to beat the Packers with 31:24. The next year they moved into the Super Bowl again ( Super Bowl XXXIII ) and beat the Atlanta Falcons with 34:19. After two championships in a row, John Elway resigned at the height of his career.
In the next ten seasons under Shanahan, the team reached the play-offs only four times. In 2009 the Broncos decided to start over and hired the former offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots , Josh McDaniels , as their new coach. There was a strange farce about the aspiring quarterback Jay Cutler . Cutler was traded to the Chicago Bears . McDaniels had speculated on being able to guide Patriots second quarterback Matt Cassel to Denver, but he was swapped for the Kansas City Chiefs . After this turbulent summer, the Broncos started the new season very successfully. A bad second half of the season brought the team away from a play-off participation. Because of the continued poor performance of the team, McDaniels was fired during the current season in December 2010 .
For the 2011 season , John Fox was signed as the new head coach. In 2012, 36-year-old quarterback Peyton Manning was signed for five years for $ 95 million . They reached the play-offs that year and were eliminated from the competition against the Baltimore Ravens after the second overtime with 38:35. In the 2013 season , the Broncos reached the AFC Championship Game through strong offensive performances in the regular season and won against the New England Patriots with 26:16. On the one hand, the team broke the 600-point limit (606) for the first time in NFL history and, on the other hand, they set a new touchdown record (76). Peyton Manning broke the NFL season records for both touchdowns (55) and space gain (5,477 yards). In Super Bowl XLVIII on February 2, 2014 they met the Seattle Seahawks , with the offensively strongest team (Denver) and the defensively strongest team (Seattle) of the season facing each other. The game was lost 8:43. The next year the Broncos played a strong season again and had a record of twelve wins and four losses after the regular season. As the team placed in second position, however, the team lost in the divisional playoffs against the Indianapolis Colts with 13:24. One day after the defeat, head coach John Fox resigned. He led the team to 46 wins in 64 games and has the best statistic of all bronco trainers with the resulting win rate of 71.9%.
Gary Kubiak was hired as the new head coach in 2015 .
Denver struggled with a move to quarterback during the 2015 season , but was able to rely on its strong defense around Von Miller , DeMarcus Ware and the Secondary now known as the No Fly Zone . The Broncos were able to move into the playoffs as the best AFC team with 12 wins and 4 losses. In the Divisional Round they beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 23:16. With a 20:18 win in the AFC Championship Game against the New England Patriots , the Denver Broncos qualified for the NFL final , Super Bowl 50 , where they beat the heavily favored Carolina Panthers on February 7, 2016 in Santa Clara with 24: 10 won. Linebacker Von Miller was voted Super Bowl MVP after the game .
Before the new 2016 season , Trevor Siemian was named starting quarterback , as Manning declared his career end after the Super Bowl victory and the backup quarterback Brock Osweiler moved to the Houston Texans . The season started very positively for Denver with four straight wins. Bad performances followed, and in the end they missed the play-offs early with a record of 9 wins and 7 losses. On January 1, 2017, Gary Kubiak announced his resignation from the coaching office for health reasons. On January 11, 2017, John Elway, General Manager of the Broncos, introduced Vance Joseph as the new head coach of the franchise. Joseph was previously Defensive Coordinator for the Miami Dolphins. The Broncos ended the 2017 season with 5 wins and 11 losses. After Case Keenum was signed as quarterback, the 2018 season started mixed, but the play-off participation was clearly missed. For the first time since 1971 / 1972 , the Broncos finished two seasons in a row with a negative balance, then Vance Joseph was released on December 31, 2018th On January 9, 2019, the Broncos announced the signing of Vic Fangio as coach. Fangio, who most recently served as Defensive Coordinator with the Chicago Bears , signed a four-year contract with an option for an additional year. The 2019 season ended with the Denver Broncos 7-9 and missed the play-offs again. During the season, the newly signed, experienced quarterback Joe Flacco was replaced by the rookie Drew Lock .
Current squad
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Wide receiver
Tight ends
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Defensive linemen
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Linebacker
Defensive backs
Special teams
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Special players
Broncos in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
| Pro Football Hall of Fame members | ||||
| Jersey number | Surname | position | Active for Denver | Year of admission |
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| 24 | Willie Brown | CB | 1963-1966 | 1984 |
| 33 | Tony Dorsett | RB | 1988 | 1994 |
| 7th | John Elway | QB | 1983-1998 | 2004 |
| 65 | Gary Zimmerman | T | 1993-1997 | 2008 |
| 44 | Floyd Little | RB | 1967-1975 | 2010 |
| 84 | Shannon Sharpe | TE | 1990-1999 2002-2003 |
2011 |
| 30th | Terrell Davis | RB | 1995-2001 | 2017 |
| 20th | Brian Dawkins | S. | 2009-2011 | 2018 |
| 24 | Champ Bailey | CB | 2004-2013 | 2019 |
| 26th | Ty Law | CB | 2009 | 2019 |
| - | Pat Bowling | Franchise owner | 1984-2019 | 2019 |
Ring of Fame
The Broncos have placed a Ring of Honor on the facade of Level 5 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High since 1984, honoring the following players:
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| Jersey number | Surname | position | Active for Denver | Year of admission |
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| 23 | Goose Gonsoulin | S. | 1960-66 | 1984 |
| 87 | Rich Jackson | DE | 1967-72 | 1984 |
| 44 | Floyd Little | RB | 1967-75 | 1984 |
| 87 | Lionel Taylor | WR | 1960-66 | 1984 |
| - | Gerald Phipps | owner | 1961-81 | 1985 |
| 12 | Charley Johnson | QB | 1972-75 | 1986 |
| 70 | Paul Smith | DE | 1968-78 | 1986 |
| 18th | Frank Tripucka | QB | 1960-63 | 1986 |
| 36 | Billy Thompson | S. | 1969-81 | 1987 |
| 7th | Craig Morton | QB | 1977-82 | 1988 |
| 25th | Haven Moses | WR | 1972-81 | 1988 |
| 15th | Jim Turner | K | 1971-79 | 1988 |
| 53 | Randy Gradishar | LB | 1974-83 | 1989 |
| 57 | Tom Jackson | LB | 1973-86 | 1992 |
| 20th | Louis Wright | CB | 1975-86 | 1993 |
| 7th | John Elway |
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1983–98 2011– today |
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| 77 | Karl Mecklenburg | LB | 1983-95 | 2001 |
| 49 | Dennis Smith | S. | 1981-94 | 2001 |
| 65 | Gary Zimmerman | T | 1993-97 | 2003 |
| 27 | Steve Atwater | S. | 1989-98 | 2005 |
| 30th | Terrell Davis | RB | 1995-2001 | 2007 |
| 84 | Shannon Sharpe | TE | 1990-99, 2002-03 | 2009 |
| 80 | Rod Smith | WR | 1994-2006 | 2012 |
| 66 | Tom Nalen | C. | 1994-2007 | 2013 |
| 21st | Gene Mingo | RB , K , RS | 1960-64 | 2014 |
| - | Dan Reeves | Head coach | 1981-92 | 2014 |
| 80 | Rick Upchurch | WR , RS | 1975-83 | 2014 |
| - | Pat Bowling | owner | 1984-2019 | 2015 |
| 1 | Jason Elam | K | 1993-2007 | 2016 |
| 73 | Simon Fletcher | LB / DE | 1985-95 | 2016 |
| 47 | John Lynch | S. | 2004-07 | 2016 |
| - | Red Miller | Head coach | 1977-80 | 2017 |
| 24 | Champ Bailey | CB | 2004-13 | 2019 |
Jersey numbers that are no longer assigned
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| 7th | John Elway | QB | 1983-1999 | |
| 18th | Frank Tripucka 1 | QB | 1960-1963 | |
| 44 | Floyd Little | RB | 1967-1975 | |
Trainer (Head Coaches)
| # | Order of trainers |
| Games | Play as a coach |
| S. | Victories |
| N | Defeats |
| UE | draw |
| Won% | Win rate |
| * | Exclusively active as head coach for the Broncos |
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| 1 | Frank Filchock * | 1960-1961 | 28 | 7th | 20th | 1 | .259 | - | - | - | |||||||
| 2 | Jack Faulkner * | 1962-1964 | 32 | 9 | 22nd | 1 | .290 | - | - | - | UPI NFL Trainer of the Year (1962) | ||||||
| 3 | Mac Speedie * | 1964-1966 | 26th | 6th | 19th | 1 | .240 | - | - | - | |||||||
| 4th | Ray Malavasi | 1966 | 12 | 4th | 8th | 1 | .333 | - | - | - | |||||||
| 5 | Lou Saban | 1967-1971 | 65 | 20th | 42 | 3 | .323 | - | - | - | |||||||
| 6th | Jerry Smith * | 1971 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .400 | - | - | - | |||||||
| 7th | John Ralston * | 1972-1976 | 70 | 34 | 33 | 3 | .507 | - | - | - | UPI NFL Trainer of the Year (1973) | ||||||
| 8th | Red Miller * | 1977-1980 | 62 | 40 | 22nd | 0 | .645 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
AP NFL Coach of the Year (1977) Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (1977) Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (1977) UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1977) |
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| 9 | Dan Reeves | 1981-1992 | 184 | 110 | 73 | 1 | .601 | 13 | 7th | 6th | Pro Football Weekly NFL Trainer of the Year (1984) UPI NFL Trainer of the Year (1989) UPI NFL Trainer of the Year (1991) |
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| 10 | Wade Phillips | 1993-1994 | 32 | 16 | 16 | 0 | .500 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
| 11 | Mike Shanahan | 1995-2008 | 224 | 138 | 86 | 0 | .616 | 13 | 8th | 5 | Super Bowl XXXII , XXXIII | ||||||
| 12 | Josh McDaniels * | 2009-2010 | 28 | 11 | 17th | 0 | .393 | - | - | - | |||||||
| 13 | Eric Studesvill * | 2010 | 4th | 1 | 3 | 0 | .250 | - | - | - | |||||||
| 14th | John Fox | 2011-2014 | 64 | 46 | 18th | 0 | .719 | 7th | 3 | 4th | |||||||
| 15th | Gary Kubiak | 2015-2016 | 32 | 21st | 11 | 0 | .656 | 3 | 3 | 0 | Super bowl 50 | ||||||
| 16 | Joe DeCamillis * 1 | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | - | - | - | |||||||
| 17th | Vance Joseph * | 2017-2018 | 32 | 11 | 21st | 0 | .344 | - | - | - | |||||||
| 18th | Vic Fangio * | 2019– | 16 | 7th | 9 | 0 | .438 | - | - | - | |||||||
Current coaching staff
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Front Office
Head coaches Offense trainer
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Defense coach
Special teams trainer
Strength and stamina
Status: January 28, 2019 |
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mascot
- Thunder II (living horse)
- Miles (person in costume)
Trivia
The Broncos appear again and again in the cartoon series " South Park " and " The Simpsons ". The protagonists of the series are big fans of the team.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical Moments
- ↑ Manning moves to the Broncos. In: Sport Bild . March 19, 2012, accessed on January 13, 2013 (German).
- ↑ Denver Broncos Coaches (English) profootballreference.com, Accessed January 20, 2016
- ↑ NFL - Black Monday - the NFL live blog about the coach quake after the last NFL game day: Six head coaches already fired. December 31, 2018, accessed January 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Not only the Packers end the search for head coaches. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Denver Broncos - Ring of Fame. (No longer available online.) Denverbroncos.com, archived from the original on November 19, 2011 ; accessed on July 8, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ring of Fame - Denver Broncos History. denverbroncos.com, accessed July 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Kyle Fredrickson: Champ Bailey enters Bronco's Ring of Fame: “It's surreal”. In: denverpost.com. October 13, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Retired Numbers. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Ex-Bronco Tripucka says Manning can wear familiar No. 18 . In: nfl.com . Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ↑ statistics Frank Filchock . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ Statistics from Jack Faulkner . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ Mac Speedie Statistics . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ Statistics by Ray Malavasi . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ Statistics by Lou Saban . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ Statistics by Jerry Smith . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ Statistics from John Ralston . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ Statistics from Red Miller . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ Statistics by Dan Reeves . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ Statistics by Wade Phillips . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ Statistics by Mike Shanahan . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ Statistics by Josh McDaniels . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ Statistics by Eric Studesvill . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ Statistics from John Fox . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ Statistics by Gary Kubiak . Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ^ Statistics by Vance Joseph . Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ Statistics by Vic Fangio . Retrieved August 10, 2019.
