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Originally Posted by BlackOp
Especially when their two most impactful players were the ones implicated...it's not far-fetched to say that without one of those two, they never reach either SB.
Bowlen knew it....and also knew Horseface only had a couple years left. They rolled the dice to see if they could invent a QB legacy...and it worked.
If he were asked if he would do it again...with a lie detector....he would say ab$olutely yes.
He made back 50-100 times those fines...at least.
The other record the deserves an asterisk is Mannings 55 TDs while being jacked out on HGH..
That's another scandal threat the NFL PR team buried...along with PM sending goons to the whistleblower's house to intimidate him.
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It's also not far-fetched to say that if Pete Rozelle would have been able to stay on as commissioner for another 10-15 years, and beyond the end of Elway's career, that Elway would've had to go the same route as Kelly and Marino and retire without any SB ring.
Manning's 55 TD's were oftentimes the result of illegal pick plays by Donks receivers and pushoffs, which Seattle's Legion of Boom figured out how to negate all that in SB 48.
As for Bowlen and Elway, they went the route they did, because of the loss to the Jags in the 1996 playoff game, and they knew Elway couldn't earn any SB in legit fashion on a level playing field, as he'd had 14 years worth of chances and 3 SB appearances (and stunk up the field worse than any QB in SB history that played in multiple SB games) & they needed to have the playing field tilted heavily in their favor by any means to get to any SB.