Kansas City Chiefs: Rivalry with Broncos still alive and well
By John McCarty
The Denver Broncos have been the bane of Kansas City Chiefs fans since John Elway first entered the NFL in 1983. The rivalry is still alive and well.
This Monday, the Kansas City Chiefs will travel to what could be described as a house of past horrors: Denver, home of the Broncos. For years, the Broncos have ruined Chiefs fans’ hopes and dreams of postseason glory, or perhaps having the idea of hope ripped out from underneath their very feet.
To put it mildly, the team in Denver has been the cause of much pain for the Chiefs. Have the tables turned?
We can trace back the recent pain to 1983, specifically May 2nd, 1983. For those that don’t know, that is the date the Denver Broncos acquired John Elway in a post draft trade with the Baltimore Colts. From that point on until Elway retired in 1998, number seven was the image and identity of Chiefs fans’ pain.
With a career record of 18-12 against Kansas City, it sure feels as if the record is not nearly as good enough as it should be for someone who constantly ripped the heart out of Marty Shottenheimer Chiefs teams.
Don’t forget he also crushed the 1997 Chiefs squad with the cold January playoff game ending with an Elvis Grbac incomplete pass. The Broncos would go on to win the first of two consecutive Super Bowls while the Chiefs were headed in a far different direction.