The Denver Broncos are choosing to honor losing the Super Bowl to the Dallas Cowboys this weekend.
Different teams celebrate different thing in sports. It happens.
Consider that the Indianapolis Colts became a meme once upon a time for having a banner to display that they appeared in the 2014 AFC Championship Game. I had to word it that way, in saying “appeared in”, because they lost. This is why the banner became a meme.
Not every team has the level of history that the Dallas Cowboys do (right now history is all the Cowboys have to be clear) so you have to get creative sometimes; however, a team like the Denver Broncos certainly has enough to comb through for various things.
It was announced recently that the Broncos will be wearing their throwback uniforms this week. That is a good decision! These uniforms (the Orange Crush days) are glorious and deserve to be seen as often as they can be.
What is weird is how the Broncos are choosing to frame the wearing of them. You would think they would call them “throwbacks” or something along those lines, but instead they are going with “Super Bowl” related verbiage and celebrating the season in which they reached the game’s ultimate stage for the first time.
Denver will debut its throwback uniforms Sunday, a tribute to the 1977 season in which the Broncos advanced to the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. pic.twitter.com/hx8O3YQ6Ba
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 3, 2024
For those unaware, this is true information. The Denver Broncos 100% reached the Super Bowl, Super Bowl XII, following the 1977 season. No lies told.
The weird thing about this is they lost that game. Soundly. Who did they lose it to you ask? That would be the Dallas Cowboys, of course.
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So in a weird sort of way the Broncos are actually choosing to honor that year’s Super Bowl winners with their uniform choice this season. Good for them!
Congratulations to the 1977 Dallas Cowboys on getting the pomp and circumstance that they deserve.
