Mike Shanahan was in his second year as the head coach of the Denver Broncos in 1996, and the team had to overcome the hold the Kansas City Chiefs, seemed to have on the AFC West—the Chiefs had won the division two of the last three years and made the playoffs each year since 1990.
Has any team gotten more headlines at the quarterback position than the Denver Broncos have in the past ten months or so, between Tebow-Mania and the subsequent signing of Peyton Manning. Even coming off a cheap AFC West title at 8-8 and upset playoff win over Pittsburgh, the Broncos are still looking for their first winning season since 2006. TheSportsNotebook previews the chances this Denver team has of breaking that string and seeing if they can ride Peyton’s arm to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1998…
A year ago it was the Green Bay Packers who went into Week 17 not even sure if they would be in the playoffs. We all know how it turned out. The long route to the Super Bowl has become more common in recent years—in 2005 Pittsburgh came out of the #6 seed. The next […]