Chris Fowler and his family moved to Colorado Springs in 1977, but rooting for the Broncos wasn’t on his mind. The franchise had never made the playoffs (three winning seasons in 17 years) and had never been on his radar (he was a Green Bay fan).
That quickly changed, though.
“It was just before high school and I knew about their futility and I wasn’t a Broncos fan at all,” he said. “At first, when they were making their run to the Super Bowl (after the ’77 season) and the whole ‘Orange Crush Mania,’ was beginning, I was like, ‘These people are crazy.