DENVER – Following the Broncos’ Week 1 commemoration of the franchise’s three Super Bowl championships, the team honored three of its most influential players by revealing symmetrical panels for John Elway, Floyd Little and Frank Tripucka on the east side of the Jumbotron on the south side of the Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
The jersey-retiring ceremony began by honoring Tripucka, who was the franchise’s first quarterback and also pro football’s first player to throw for 3,000 yards in a season. His No. 18 was briefly unretired from 2012 to 2015 when the Broncos signed Peyton Manning in free agency.