The Denver Broncos became a franchise in 1960 as a charter member of the AFL and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger. The Broncos became the first AFL team to defeat an NFL team in 1967 beating the Detroit Lions. In 1965 Denver came close to losing its franchise , but a local ownership group took control that year and began to build the team.
From 1960-2000 the Denver Broncos played in Mile High Stadium. In 2001 the stadium was replaced by what is now called INVESCO Field at Mile High. Many fans opposed a corporate name and wished to keep the previous name, "Mile High Stadium".
In 1960 the Broncos uniforms consisted of brown helmets, brown pants (some had a satin sheen, some didn't), white and mustard yellow jerseys, and vertically striped socks, but were later dismissed two years later. The new logo of a bucking horse was introduced in 1962 with white pants, orange helmets and either white or orange jerseys. In 1968 debuted a design that became known as the "Orange Crush" and a new logo was designed having the horse come out of a "D". The final design for the logo was established in 1997 to a profile of a horses head and wearing navy blue jersey instead of the orange ones.
The Denver Broncos have always been known to be a dominant force by having six Super Bowl appearances. In their first four Super Bowl appearances, they suffered successively lopsided defeats, achieving near-legendary status before winning back to back Super Bowl championships in 1997 and 1998.
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