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Shocking stockings
Dan Dierdorf spoke for many CBS viewers Sunday when he said he was relieved that neither Denver nor Baltimore was wearing ugly throwback uniforms.
In his volume “Denver in Our Time: A People’s History of the Modern Mile High City,” Phil Goodstein wrote that a sporting goods manufacturer bungled an order for football stockings, striping them vertically rather than horizontally.
The firm could not sell them, even to junior varsity programs, so the frugal Broncos management in 1960 snapped them up. Goodstein also notes that the team’s early brown-and-gold uniforms were purchased after the Copper Bowl went out of existence. The jerseys shrank so badly when washed, some players had to cut holes in them to put them on.
