The AFC Championship pits two bitter rivals reaching for the Super Bowl while rewriting the rules of pro football history in the process.
The Broncos will attempt to execute a statistical miracle and win a conference title with the NFL’s most ineffective quarterback. It has never been done.
No team has ever donned a conference crown — let alone won a Super Bowl — with a quarterback who rates the very worst in the game.
Yet the Broncos are betting that gimpy old warhorse Peyton Manning has enough giddy-up left for one or two more gut-check wins before putting him out of his misery.