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NFL Championships – 0.

Super Bowl – 3.

Conference Championships – 8.

Division Championships – 15.

The Denver Broncos were incepted in the year 1959 as members of the now defunct American Football League. It took Broncos a long time to hit their stride but once they did, it was all worth it. They moved to the NFL in 1970 as part of the merger and in 1977, clinched their first division and conference championships. The Broncos, however, ended up losing the Super Bowl to the Dallas Cowboys.

They made three more trips to the Super Bowl (1986, 1987, and 1989) but ended up on the wrong side of the result on all three occasions. That unfortunate run ended in 1997 when they defeated Green Bay Packers to lift their first Super Bowl. The Broncos then clinched another Super Bowl next year in 1998. They won their third Super Bowl in 2015 to write their name among the most successful sides in NFL history.

Denver Broncos Rivalries

The following are Denver Broncos’ main rivals.

San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers

One of the biggest highlights of this rivalry has been a Monday Night game between the two during the 2012 season. The Broncos were playing at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium and were down by 24 points when Peyton Manning, their QB, led a comeback and defeated the Chargers 35-24. This is one of the biggest comebacks in Monday Night football history.

Oakland Raiders 

This rivalry intensified in the late 1970s, but subsided during the 1980s. It, however, picked up again in the mid-1990s with the arrival of Mike Shanahan as Broncos’ head coach. Shanahan had joined the Broncos after getting fired from the Raiders. It is however the Raiders that lead the all-time series.

Kansas City Chiefs

The highlight of this rivalry was the 1983-98 period, when John Elway was the Broncos’ QB. During the 1997 playoffs, the Broncos defeated the Chiefs on their way to winning their first Super Bowl. The Chiefs however lead the Broncos in the all-time series.

Seattle Seahawks

The Seahawks from 1977-2001 were part of the AFC West and therefore played regularly against the Broncos. The Seahawks are however no longer part of the AFC West and as such this intra-divisional rivalry doesn’t exist, but the two squared off in Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014, in which the Seahawks trounced the Broncos 43-8.

New England Patriots

Since 1995, the two teams have regularly played against each other. At the end of the 2015 season, the two had played in 5 playoff games, with Broncos winning 4. From 2001 to 2015, this was also a rivalry of QBs with Peyton Manning representing the Broncos against the Patriots’ Tom Brady. While Brady dominated in the regular season games, it was Manning who made his team win more playoff games against Tom Brady’s Patriots.

Pittsburgh Steelers 

By the end of the 2015 season, the Broncos and the Steelers had met in 8 post-season games, with Broncos winning 5 of those. The biggest highlight of this rivalry has been the 1997 AFC Championship game in which the Broncos won 24-21 at Three Rivers Stadium on their way to winning their first Super Bowl.

Cleveland Browns

The Broncos-Browns rivalry was short lived. It started in 1986 and ended in 1989. The two faced each other in three AFC Championship games. The most interesting thing about this rivalry is that the Broncos would not win the Super Bowl after any of the championship games where they beat the Browns.

Denver Broncos Information

Head Coach: Nathaniel Hackett.

Home Stadium: Empower Field at Mile High.

Stadium Seating Capacity: 76,125.

Stadium Opened: 2001.

2021 Division Finish: 4th.

2021 Playoffs Finish: Did Not Qualify.

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