The Denver Broncos have been one of professional football's greatest victors since the consolidation of the American and National Football Leagues in 1970. The Broncos' on-the-field achievement is more than coordinated by a staggering participation record of sellout swarms (with the exception of strike-substitution games) each year since 1970. Denver's yearly offer of around 74,000 season tickets is upheld by a holding up list during the many thousands. The Broncos presently play in the new INVESCO Field at Mile High which opened in 2001, yet for 41 seasons played on a similar plot of ground in which the first AFL group acted in 1960. This, in any case, is the lone likeness of Denver groups of days of old and today. The upstart AFL was the objective of numerous jokes and sneers by the set up National Football League in the mid 1960s, yet the Broncos were the most giggled at of all.Elway_Team_ActionBob Howsam, a fruitful small time baseball proprietor who fabricated Bears Stadium during the 1940s, was granted an AFL contract establishment on August 14, 1959. Seriously restricted monetarily, Howsam dressed his first group in quite a while from the outdated Copper Bowl in Tucson, Ariz. Making the garbs especially joke-commendable were the in an upward direction striped socks that finished the Broncos' dress. After two years, when Jack Faulkner took over as lead trainer and senior supervisor, the socks were obliterated in a public consuming service.While Denver's on-the-field insight during the 10 years of the AFL was generally dreary, the Broncos had some splendid minutes. On September 9, 1960, they won the first-historically speaking AFL game with a 13-10 triumph over the Boston Patriots. On August 5, 1967, they scored the main win ever for an AFL group against a NFL rival with a 13-7 victory over the Detroit Lions. However, toward the finish of the AFL's decade, Denver's 39-97-4 record was the most exceedingly awful for any of the first eight AFL groups.Denver's present participation gold mine can be followed to a striking new development in 1965 that previously undermined and afterward guaranteed the fate of master football around there. A few minority accomplices framed a dominant part casting a ballot square to offer the Broncos to Atlanta interests, be that as it may, without a second to spare, the Phipps siblings, Gerald and Allan, who had been avoided with regard to the democratic square, purchased the group and 34,657-seat Bears Stadium. Energized fans showed their appreciation by buying just about 23,000 season tickets, contrasted with 7,996 the prior year.Prior to the 1968 season, Bears Stadium was bought by the city and renamed Denver Mile High Stadium. It was extended to 51,706 limit that year, at that point to 63,532 out of 1976 and to 75,100 of every 1977. As the arena developed, so too prepared ticket deals fill each additional seat.In their fourteenth season in 1973, the Broncos under Coach John Ralston completed 7-5-2 for their first winning season ever. Accordingly began a pattern that saw the Broncos fall underneath the .500 imprint just multiple times in the following 20 seasons. In the 14-year time frame somewhere in the range of 1977 and 1991, the Broncos won seven AFC Western Division titles and AFC titles in 1977, 1986, 1987 and 1989. It was the sort of achievement the Broncos' originators proved unable, in light of current circumstances, conceivably have envisioned.The Broncos arrived at the apex of the ace football world, as the group caught its first big showdown with a triumph over the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII. With a triumph over the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl XXXIII, Denver achieved what just five different groups had accomplished — consecutive Super Bowl titles.