Quote:
Originally Posted by Best22
Denver was favored before any championships were won
The NFL's love affair is precisely for the reasons I stated above
Chiefs were ignored for their lack of: thin air, unusual jersey color, October snowstorms, and marketable QBs.
|
Sorry, but you're just wrong.
Before they got to their first Super Bowl, the Broncos were one of the NFL's jokes. Nobody outside of Denver cared about them. What got them on the map was getting to the playoffs and Super Bowl for the first time in '76-'77, and the country's fascination with the insanity that was kicked off in Denver. They rode thir defense to more playoff appearances, and then (honestly) sort of lucked into getting one of the best QB prospects in history with Elway in '83. Elway was their first marketable name, and he completely changed the fortune of the organization, and the city of Denver as an NFL market.
This is a team that, in spite of being one of the NFL's marquee franchises for four decades, didn't get their first player in the Hall of Fame until well into the 21st century (and is still ridiculously underrepresented there).
Teams that win get attention. It doesn't matter where they play. It doesn't matter what color their uniforms are.