When the festivities and hostilities kick off this Sunday at INVESCO Field at Mile High, it will be the 100th regular season matchup between the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs franchises.
There is nothing like a good rivalry game to stir fans up, and ours undoubtedly will be very vocal Sunday, in spite of and maybe even because of the fact that the season has not gone well so far.
This is a matchup that at this time is led by Kansas City, 54-45-0, with the Broncos having taken the only postseason meeting, 14-10 in Kansas City on their way to the world championship in Super Bowl XXXII.
The Chiefs began life as the Dallas Texans from 1960-62, and I always loved that original Texans helmet, which had a map of the state on each side, with a single star marking the location of Dallas.
The Broncos would never have begun at all had it not been for the perseverance of Dallas owner Lamar Hunt, who started his own league when he could not get a franchise in the NFL, and who then stuck with his AFL guys when the NFL honchos made a final effort to kill off the new league by finally giving Hunt a franchise.
The eight owners of the AFL teams were dubbed “The Foolish Club.”
But it’s not how you are born, it’s how you grow, and these two franchises grew just fine. The Texans moved from Dallas to Kansas City in 1963 and altogether won 25 of the first 27 games against the Broncos.
So considering Denver only winning twice in the first 27 times out, the Broncos since then are 43-29 against this week’s opponents.
At home the Broncos are 29-6 against the Chiefs franchise from 1973 over the last 37 years, and the Broncos will be looking to put up number 30 on the home ledger this Sunday.
When AFC West teams get together you never know what you might see. Last year the winning team scored 44 points in each of the home and away games, with the visiting team on top both times.
Three Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterbacks have been featured in this series, John Elway for the Broncos and Len Dawson and Joe Montana for the Chiefs.
Fans have seen the Chiefs outscore the Broncos by 2,345 to 2004 total regular season points, so that 341-point differential is one the Broncos are not likely to put much of a dent in this week, but that’s Okay.
Denver is just looking to outscore them by one!
Tags: 2010, Denver Broncos, Jim Saccomano, Joe Montana, John Elway, Kansas City Chiefs, Len Dawson
New blog. Coats just like you said.
I started to buy a jersey,but decided to wait till next year,but I’m leaning toward a Doom jersey,since he did sign a 6 year deal,and he’s a Helluva player,just needs to get a little better in pass coverage.
And run coverage.
YEA U RITE BEAST THATS TRUE WE NEED TO TELL MCD THAT AND THEN SOME!!!!!!! LOL…
BEAST i been trying to find a doom but cant
every player we traded away so far is balling for there opposing team that Smith trade for 7th round TE was outright stupid
dont we wish we still had all that talent and we keeping bringing in scrubs for player when we had studs for players.
Bay..every player we got needs to get better in run coverage.LOL
Denver needs a big win this weekend. and its possible. dont forget that kc ‘s passing game sucks, if we only can stop the run. and they do a lot of trick plays. we can do it. denver wins 21-17
I say Denver 30 KC 10, the team responds with it all on the line and put every bit of heart into their performance, pushing their pride and will on their opponents, and Tebow has a couple touchdowns…wait what….
i hope it snows in denver on sunday! i like what im hearing on how the teams bye week went we got healthy and our r looking forward to playing some football again with 5 of our next 8 games in division anything is possible if we can take care of our division this season can be the complete opposite from last year wear we start out hot and end cold this year we started cold and looking to end hot go broncos!
This will be a very big challenge this week. Attitude is everything! We need to come out and dominate in every aspect of the game, if we do that in the first half of the game they won’t know what hit them ! The defence needs to hit hard and send those indians packin !
I would love to see more blitzing from Wink this week. Throw 8 guys at em’ every play and trust champ, cox, & either safety to do their job.
no question that attitude is critical, and has been missing last few games, hoping a bye week and seeing blogs/media peg McD as the reason for the season might help motivate the team along with a need to reestablish dominance on our home turf (teams used to fear playing Broncos at home). KC is going to be motivated after losing to the raiders so we will have to bring our A game to this one. Hoping to see our team revitalized and kicking some KC butt
GO BRONCOS
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