[RedinTexas]

Originally Posted by BroncoBuff

…. Which brings me to RedinTexas. Sir, I have no problem with you or anyone else choosing to include AFL years and totals in statistical analyzes and breakdowns. But once you do, that whittles your comparison pool down to 8, which is pretty thin.

And, after you posted your Broncos-Chiefs comparisons including the AFL years and AFL games, you said this:



Problem is, you continued to include AFL totals in your breakdowns! I realize it must be very tempting to slip in that 19-1 record against Denver, obviously you need those numbers.

So I’m gonna state again the facts I posted, taken from that YouTube video, which wisely compared apples to apples:

1. Broncos total NFL wins trailed Kansas City first few years after the merger
2. In 1976, the Broncos passed the Texans/Chiefs in total wins for the first time, after 6 years in NFL
3. The Texans/Chiefs have never to this date caught back up with Denver in total NFL wins
4. Since joining the NFL, the Broncos have climbed as high as #4 in wins, and are tied for second in SB appearances with 8 (8 appearances in four separate spans, or mini-eras, not one big explosion after a 48 year drought).
5. Here is a screen shot of total wins up to date. Chiefs trail by 22 wins – the closest they’ve been in 44 years:




Some additional Broncos records:

1. Broncos hold the longest home sellout streak in the League. In fact, there has never been a ticket for sale to an NFL game in Denver after Wednesday of game week. Never.*
2. Broncos held the longest consecutive year streaks of being scheduled on MNF, and placing at least one player in the Pro Bowl.
3. According to NBC Sports, the Broncos have been featured in national TV games more often than any other team (this record goes thru 2020 at least; and is partly due to the fact that Denver is one of the few teams that has their home games scheduled in the late doubleheader window).

Let me explain something to you that have apparently overlooked. Both the Chiefs and the Broncos were AFL teams. Comparisons of the 2 from the date of inception of the AFL is valid because both teams played in the same league. This is a comparison of the Chiefs and Broncos. If the Broncos began operations at a different time than the Chiefs, it might be valid to use a different date for the beginning of any such comparison, but that is not the case.

Since the Broncos and Chiefs both began operations at the same time in 1960, that should be the start date of any comparison of the franchises.

The Broncos come up short in comparison to the Chiefs, so you want to jigger the statistics to generate results that feel better to you. We're on to that lie. Try something else.