Hall of Horses? Six Former Denver Broncos Possible Hall of Famers

September 13, 2010   ·   Rich Kurtzman   ·   Jump to comments

Making it into the Hall of Fame is a great gauge of how well an individual played throughout his career.
It also can be a measuring stick by which an NFL franchise is evaluated.
The Denver Broncos currently have four players in the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio; John Elway, Gary Zimmerman, Floyd Little, Tony Dorsett and Willie Brown.
Of the five, only Little and Elway played his entire career in Denver, with Brown being a Bronco for three seasons and Dorsett only one. So in actuality, the Broncos have only two players in the Hall that played in the Mile High City for more than five seasons.
For an NFL franchise that just celebrated its 50th year of professional football (the first 10 were with the AFL), having a mere three players in the Hall is a joke, a mockery of the history of football at altitude.
After all, the Broncos were the winners of the first ever AFL game (13-10 vs. the Boston Patriots Sept. 9, 1960) and seven years later, De...

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