The Denver Broncos may have missed the Super Bowl this season, so they're still celebrating Super Bowl 50 instead.
The Denver Broncos didn’t quite make it to the Super Bowl this season, so they’re leaning hard into the tenth anniversary of the last Broncos team to bring home the Lombardi Trophy, scheduling yet another celebration of Denver’s 2015 team that won Super Bowl 50.
The event, which was reported by columnist Troy Renck of the Denver Post, while be held at the Paramount Theater in Denver on April 22. It’s being dubbed part of the “Night of Champions,” and it will be hosted by Omaha Productions, which should have a familiar ring to Broncos fans.
The event will include Hall of Famers Peyton Manning and Demarcus Ware, along with defensive end Von Miller and former Pro Bowl receiver Emmanuel Sanders. It will also feature two members of the secondary that became known as the “No Fly Zone,” cornerback Aquib Talib and safety T.J. Ward.
The coach of that team, Gary Kubiak, will join the players for a panel discussion/celebration that will be moderated by CBS NFL sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson. According to Renck, the event is designed to give fans “all-access insight” in the Broncos’ third and most-recent Super Bowl title, which culminated with a 24-10 victory over the Carolina Panthers at Levi’s Stadium.
The Broncos have already done another version of this drill before with an analogous celebration last October during a home game against the New York Giants. The Hall of Fame bust for late receiver Demaryius Thomas was unveiled at that game, and the Broncos also trotted out several members of this illustrious game late in the season as another Super Bowl run became possible.
The highlight of the event will undoubtedly be Talib, who’s been known to say just about anything when he’s given a hot mic in situations where his comfort level is high. Peyton Manning will likely provide the counterpoint, humor-wise, and with any luck we’ll get something controversial from this that will break as a national story.
The event also represents an attempt by Omaha Productions to keep the Manning brothers in the spotlight. The once-innovative “Manningcast” that features Peyton and his brother Eli is staring to feel a little tired and faded, and the production company has been veering into team-engineered “documentaries” lately that are basically infomercials for whoever hires them.
It’s not a bad opportunity for Denver fans still smarting from that 10-7 loss to New England in the AFC Championship game, though, as this will likely be the last chance to celebrate this group for a while.