Three Broncos fans pose in a sign in 1988. (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)
You know one good thing about the Broncos not making the Super Bowl this year? They’re not going to in it. While , friends from all over know me as a Broncos fan. So when I went to a wedding last summer, somebody I hadn’t seen in years came up to me and said, “Hey, Dave — the Super Bowl — what was that like for you?”
Of course that wasn’t the first time the Broncos had a rough time on football’s biggest stage.
The Three Amigos featured in Super Bowl XXII, to the football team from Washington, D.C.
From a Terry Frei column looking back two years ago:
“were John Elway’s three young wide receivers, Denver draft choices in consecutive years — Vance Johnson in 1985, Mark Jackson in 1986 and Ricky Nattiel in 1987. They were built alike, with Johnson the tallest, listed at 5-foot-11, and the other two at 5-9.
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“Nattiel played his entire six-season career with the Broncos, finishing with 121 receptions for 1,972 yards and eight touchdowns. The highlight was when he from Elway on Denver’s first play in the January 1988 Super Bowl XXII against the Redskins. It went downhill from there, of course, with the Redskins roaring to a 42-10 victory.”
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