Denver Broncos, Super Bowl Champions

Was that an unprecedented season?

The Broncos only played two games this year that weren't close, and yet they kept winning, they won the majority of those games.

Calm personified, a daunting schedule, they beat Carolina, Green Bay, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Minnesota, and New England (twice).

Let's throw a quarterback controversy in there, Osweiler playing exceedingly well at times, a new defensive coordinator (Wade Phillips), and a new head coach (Gary Kubiak), playing run it and let our defence stop them style in both the Conference Finals and the Super Bowl.

Nerve.

Resilience.

I've never seen a Broncos team with a defence like this one, brilliantly coached by Wade Phillips, Von Miller making Ray Lewis-like impacts, punishing whomever dared try score against them.

Baffling.

After being defensively blown out in the Super Bowl two years ago, Elway goes and turns Denver into the best defensive team in the NFL, he actually did it, he made the right moves, signed the right players, and did to Carolina what the Seahawks did to Denver two years ago, a complete and total mind-boggling 180.

What do you say when your team needs a better defence in conversation with friends? You say, "our team needs a better frickin' defence."

How often do you see that team with that better defence two years later playing in the finals? Like, never. Has something like that ever happened?

(Note: the Montréal Canadiens have made some great defensive moves).

It was such a class act, top down and bottom-up, Elway and Kubiak inspiring the unselfish approach with gritty poise and integrity, which helped the Broncos bring the Lombardi Trophy back to Denver.

Defence wins championships.

And the Broncos have a good one, their offence playing well enough to boldly help them get the job done.

I wasn't exactly calm and collected during the playoffs. I was stressed beyond belief, yelling at the television, and worried that I was going to have a heart attack.

But that's just what it's like during the postseason.

Wouldn't have it any other way.

Electrified excitement.

Mesmerizing intensity.

Respect, and resolve.

Was pretty excited when I surfed over to nfl.com 4 years ago and discovered that Peyton Manning had signed with the Broncos.

He has brought so much to the team.

What a quarterback.

Defining the exceptional.