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Broncos CEO says NFL understands team's ownership plans

HOUSTON -- Denver Broncos president/CEO Joe Ellis said at the Super Bowl this week the team is in “constant communication" with the NFL about the Broncos’ ownership plan and that he expects the league to wait for that plan to unfold.

In July of 2014, owner Pat Bowlen announced he would step away from the team’s day-to-day operations as he battled Alzheimer’s disease. Since then the team has been in the hands of the Bowlen Family Trust with Ellis making the team decisions.

The plan Bowlen put in place calls for the three trustees Bowlen selected -- Ellis, Broncos general counsel Rich Slivka, and Denver attorney Mary Kelly -- to serve as the team’s ownership until the three trustees name a successor.