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[uneasy music playing]

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[crowd chanting] Elway sucks! Elway sucks!

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Elway sucks! Elway sucks!

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[woman 1] I think he's a prima donna,
an obnoxious little brat.

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[man 1] Come on, Elway, you're gonna be
carried out on a stretcher, you wimp!

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[man 2] Go home, Elway!

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[commentator 1] He got all the money
and ballyhoo in the world.

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Was he overblown by the media?

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[commentator 2] I feel sorry for the kid.
He is a target.

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[reporter 1] Are you tough enough?
Do you feel tough enough to be a QB?

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[commentator 3] Once again,
John Elway has been sacked four times.

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[commentator 4] He's not the guy
you win championships with.

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[crowd booing]

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[Elway] I love the water,
and I love boats.

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For me, it's always been my safety place.

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You get up here, and you get on the water
and float and relax.

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I like this.
I like not having stress anymore.

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[commentator] He's not throwing the ball.

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Hey, Elway, you big sissy!

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For me, I never really realized stress
because I always was in stress.

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I had always believed in the hard road

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because I believed that's the only way
you can have success.

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But you take the hard way,
you reap the benefits.

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[commentator] Elway,
the most gifted quarterback

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to ever play
in the National Football League.

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[Elway] For me, sitting back,
looking over the last 50 years…

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[commentator 1] John Elway
has done it again!

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[commentator 2] Broncos win!

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[Elway] …my whole life,
winning was the most important thing.

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[reporter] Is winning a Super Bowl
the only unanswered goal in your career?

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[Elway] I can still remember
feeling that responsibility

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and the expectations to be the best.

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[commentator] Greatness is more
than just the performance on the field.

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[Elway] But I had to sacrifice
everything I loved to be able to do it.

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[commentator] How important
is this football game?

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How bad does John Elway wanna win
this football game?

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[music fades]

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[gentle acoustic guitar music playing]

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-[producer] You see me all right?
-I can. Perfect.

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I had never been to Denver
before I landed.

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You know, we're up in the mountains,
kind of a dusty old town.

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Felt like we were
a little bit in the cowboy country.

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It always has been a Broncos town,
and it was in those days.

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[man] Been here since '70,
and it's always been the same.

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Crazy.

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[blows fanfare]

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Charge!

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[commentator] The miracle has happened!
The Broncos are going to the Super Bowl!

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[Antonopulos] We had finally went
to the Super Bowl in '77.

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And then after that, it kind of fizzled.

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[man] And that city
wanted in the worst way

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to call itself a major-league city.

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Everything changed for Colorado in 1983.

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[Antonopulos] When he came,
it was like the star that was never here

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that put everything in motion.

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[suspenseful music playing]

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[Elway] When I got to training camp,

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there was a bunch of trailers
with every news story, every radio show.

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[man] He might've been the first guy
where they had the "Elway Watch."

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It was a daily watch on
what he was doing, where he was going.

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Nowadays, with social media,
that's kind of the norm.

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But at that time, it wasn't.

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[coach] Ace left toe 4, 88 36, OT on 'em.
One on one. Ready?

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[Kubiak] And then the amount of people
that even came to practice.

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Come on, offense!

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Put 'em back there!

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Put them! Let's go get some guts.

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I realized how big a deal the Broncos were

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to the Rocky Mountain region
at that point.

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Red 28, hut!

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As far as pressure
that other people put on me

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and all the things in the newspaper,
I try not to let that bother me.

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I try to let it go in one ear
and out the other.

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I think that, uh, um,
by trying to live up to those standards,

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alls it does is add pressure to myself

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and… and diminish the amount of…
or the… uh…

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-[clicks tongue]
-[interviewer chuckles]

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[interviewer] Yeah, they're all over you.

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-[tense music playing]
-[crowd cheering]

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[Elway] My rookie year,
we had to open in Pittsburgh.

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[crowd booing]

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[Elway] I was very, very excited.

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[commentator 1] Question has to be
about John Elway. Game one for him.

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The most celebrated debut
of any player to come in the NFL.

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[Elway] Well, my first contract
was five years, and it was $5,000,000.

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At that point in time,
it was the highest contract in the NFL.

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Obviously, there's a lot of veterans
in the league that were upset with that.

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[music intensifies]

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[commentator 2] It's interesting
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with the publicity that an Elway has had,

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even the football teams,
you can tell it's got their attention.

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Everybody's craning their neck
to see what he's gonna do.

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[Elway] Come to the line of scrimmage,
and I'm still in a little bit of awe

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that I'm playing quarterback in the NFL.

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And I look across the line of scrimmage,
and I see Jack Lambert over there.

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Strong left. Ace ace. I got left post!

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[Elway] He's screaming things,
had no front teeth,

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spit coming out of his mouth.

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I came out to the first series, going,
"I'm not so sure I wanna do this."

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Hut!

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I didn't play very well that game.

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I was 1 for 8, had a pick.

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And so I got benched at halftime.

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[commentator 3] I feel sorry for the kid.
He's a target for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Part of the growing pains
of coming into the NFL.

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Nobody's worth $5,000,000.

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[music fades]

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I can still remember feeling
that responsibility and the expectations

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that I had put on my shoulders
when I was very young.

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[pensive music playing]

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[man] He was always competitive.

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He played all sports
and enjoyed it and worked at it.

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But football was… was always his love.

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I remember
they were playing their first game.

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I said, "Coach, how's it going?"

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He says, "Either your son is
the fastest, greatest running back

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they've ever seen at this level,

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or the rest of those guys are
really terrible." [laughs]

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[Elway] My dad was a football coach.

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He was so influential
about how I played the game.

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His biggest thing was teaching.

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Not coaching. It's teaching.

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How do you get through to each guy?

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But I think that's one reason why
so many people thought so highly of him.

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He always told us and told me,

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"You treat other people
the way you want to be treated."

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[music fades]

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I had a twin sister. My sister Lee Ann was
a year and a half older.

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So there was three young kids
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And so we were very close.

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This is me and my twin sister, Jana.

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I actually… I loved being a twin.

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And we were best friends. It was amazing,
the relationship that we had.

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We never really fought.

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You'd think twins, boys and girls twins,
same age, would fight all the time.

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But we never really fought.

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We kind of took care of each other.
We stuck tight together.

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Never told on each other.

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Pretty much, if John wasn't supposed
to do something, he did it.

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She was the one
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If I was out of line,

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she was the one that would grab me
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[poignant music playing]

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[Jana] I remember my mom would come home.

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And we would ask who won,
the good guys or the bad guys.

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It was a good week when the good guys won.
My dad was gonna be in a great mood.

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And when the bad guys won,
it was a quiet week.

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So we were always really keeping
our fingers crossed

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the good guys would win.

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[Elway] A lot of times, he took on more of
the negative stuff than he should've.

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When they didn't win football games,
it was his fault.

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I think he would internalize it
rather than let some of that out.

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And I think that's why, you know,
losing, um, upset him so much.

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Because he felt like he couldn't…
he didn't do enough.

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[Jana] If a team wasn't doing well,
you'd start sensing, "Oh no. Oh no."

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As a kid, we knew it.

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And then it would happen, and then Dad
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It was devastating.

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Every time we left some place, I would
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So winning and losing
became very important.

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[funky rock music playing]

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[Jana] In high school,
we moved down to Southern California.

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And that was the biggest culture shock.

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♪ Well, they say this place is evil… ♪

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You know, it was like
a bunch of country kids moving down there.

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[Elway] I'll never forget.
My dad drives me to school.

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He says, "John, what position
are you gonna out for today?"

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I said, "Well, I'm gonna go out
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We had a 1968 Chevy Impala.

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Gear shift on the steering wheel,
went into park.

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And, uh, 15 minutes later,
I got out of the car,

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and I was a quarterback.

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[Jack] He wasn't that enthused
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because he didn't feel like
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But Jack Neumeier knew as much
about the passing game as anybody.

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[Elway] Back in the '70s,
it was running game first,

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and then you spread in
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But Jack was the exact opposite.

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Coach Neumeier was
way ahead of his time back in the '70s.

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Well, the first thing
that struck you is the, uh… the arm.

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He could throw the ball,
and everybody knew that right away.

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[commentator]
The finest high school quarterback

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in the nation this past season.
Great pass by Elway.

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[Jana] He was very, very popular
in high school.

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He was well-liked by everyone,
but he never really knew that.

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He was always real nice to people.
I mean, it never, um, changed him.

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[commentator] He's got it all.
He's not in good position

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to throw the football.

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He throws it about 40 yards,
right on the money.

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[man] There you go!

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[commentator] He's the best quarterback
I've seen come out of high school.

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[Elway] The better I played,
those expectations just grew.

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There was a great tradition of baseball
at Granada Hills before I got there.

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We had a very good baseball team.

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I loved playing both,
and I wanted to play both.

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I got drafted
after my senior year out of Granada Hills

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by the Kansas City Royals
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So I had options
coming out of high school.

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[interviewer] Those baseball teams
trying to keep you from playing football?

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[Elway] Still a little, yeah.

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What's it gonna be, football or…?

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It's gonna be both.
I'm not sure in what, though.

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-You going to college?
-Yeah.

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-Whereabouts?
-Stanford.

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[dramatic music playing]

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[commentator] The statistics
tell the tale.

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The best college quarterback numerically
since Joe Namath.

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[commentator 2] Many call him
the best college quarterback ever.

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When John came to Stanford,
two quarterbacks,

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as soon as they saw him throw,
transferred out.

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And they were good quarterbacks.
I mean, he can throw it.

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I was a swimmer at Stanford

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and dedicated my life to swimming
from age five and then on.

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Didn't do much else
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So when I went to the football game
freshman year with my dorm,

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I hear them saying, "Elway! Elway!"

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[crowd chanting] Elway! Elway! Elway!

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Elway! Elway! Elway!

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And I thought they meant like, an "L way,"

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like it was a pass or a play
that they wanted to run.

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[laughing] I didn't know
that it was gonna be my future husband.

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[commentator] Elway scrambles.

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Now he's in trouble.

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Oh, look at this!

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He's got a man wide open!

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[crowd roars]

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So that's how I heard about
"No, that's John Elway,"

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you know, the whole big deal
about him being at Stanford.

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[music fades]

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[Elway] Well, I remember meeting Janet
the fall of my freshman year.

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She did not know
a whole lot about football,

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and that was something
that maybe drew me to her

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'cause she had no idea who the heck I was.

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♪ I've been lost before… ♪

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[Janet] Oh, he had this long hair

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that he would always
be flipping it back, you know.

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He's knock-kneed
and pigeon-toed at the same time.

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I learned to love it.

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The first time we kissed,
we hit teeth, so… [laughs]

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[chuckles] I… Yeah, we about broke
each other's teeth, if I remember right.

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I started to realize,
"This is someone that I need to share."

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I mean, he would walk down at Stanford
and just be bombarded.

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♪ Well, I cried, "This can't be true" ♪

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[Janet] All of a sudden,
I'm dating this superstar,

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and yet he didn't handle himself
like a superstar.

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He was shy.

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He was sweet.

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He wasn't somebody
that would seek the attention.

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He did not want
the celebrity that came with it.

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You know,
just wanted to be one of the guys.

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It's what makes him who he is.

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[crowd chanting] Elway!
Elway! Elway! Elway!

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Elway! Elway! Elway!

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[Elway] My last game at Stanford was
one of the most memorable games

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in college football history.

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[dramatic music stab]

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[reporter] It's a phenomenal rivalry,
which is nearly a hundred years old.

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Year in and year out,

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the Big Game, incredibly,
seems to live up to its hype.

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[ethereal music playing]

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Because of the marquee value
of John Elway in his senior year,

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the Cardinal were headed
to the Hall of Fame Bowl.

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All they needed was a win over Cal.

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[crowd cheering]

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[commentator 1] California needs only
to eat up the clock.

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And it all comes down to this.
One play, 53 seconds.

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[Elway] We were in dire straits being
fourth-and-17 from our own 13.

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My mindset was always
staying in the moment.

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Fourth-and-17,
you don't have a lot of time to think.

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We just try to figure out
how we can get the first down.

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[commentator 2] Bears start to peel off.
Elway back to throw inside his 5.

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He's gotta get this one.

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-Looks way downfield!
-[dramatic music playing]

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It is complete at the 43-yard line!

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Forty seconds to go. Elway puts it up.

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He's got it. Caught at the 39-yard line,
out of bounds.

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[Elway] We're trying to get
into field-goal range

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'cause we're down 19-17.

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[commentator 2] Here's Elway,
bringing them up. Pitch back.

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Breaking to his left is Dotterer.
Dotterer might go all the way!

283
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He is dropped at the 17-yard line!

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Thirty-five-yard kick will win it.

285
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-[crowd cheering]
-[commentator 2] Listen to the crowd.

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Here's the snap. Here's the kick.

287
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It is long enough. It is good!

288
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Stanford hits it with four seconds to go

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and takes the lead, 20-19!

290
00:15:49,198 --> 00:15:51,450
Only a miracle can save the Bears.

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[music fades]

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We kick the field goal and make it,
and we think the game is over.

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[Elway] You know, we had a chance
to go to a bowl game this year.

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That was running through my mind

295
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as I'm sitting on the sideline,
thinking, "Wow."

296
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But we knew we still had one play to go.

297
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[commentator 2] Harmon will probably
try to squib it, and he does.

298
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Ball comes loose,
and the Bears have to get out of bounds.

299
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[dramatic music playing]

300
00:16:14,139 --> 00:16:16,892
Rodgers along the sideline. Another one.

301
00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:20,312
They're still in deep trouble at midfield.
They tried to do a couple…

302
00:16:20,396 --> 00:16:22,940
The ball is still loose
as they get it to Rodgers!

303
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They give it back now to the 30.
They're down to the 20.

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All the band is out on the field!

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He's going to go into the end zone!
He's gone into the end zone!

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[screaming excitedly] The Bears!
The Bears have won! The Bears have won!

307
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Oh my God!

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The most amazing, sensational,

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dramatic, heartrending,

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exciting, thrilling finish
in the history of college football!

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California has won
the Big Game over Stanford!

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Oh, excuse me for my voice!

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[Elway] It was a traumatic loss.

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Probably, at that time,
the most traumatic loss I had ever had.

315
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For the rest of my career,

316
00:17:05,107 --> 00:17:06,900
knowing that something like this
could happen,

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that anytime
there was time left on a clock,

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a game is never over till it's over.

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[music fades]

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[Elway] I had to learn how to lose.
I was not good at losing.

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Dad talked to me several times about it.

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You're gonna have to deal with failure.
You're gonna have to deal with losing.

323
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I sometimes think how you lose
is gonna determine

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what kind of winner you're gonna be.

325
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[brooding music playing]

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[Schefter] John never won
a bowl game in college.

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It was a largely unfulfilled career.

328
00:17:48,067 --> 00:17:50,235
[music turns hopeful]

329
00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:54,198
[reporter] John broke the NCAA record
for career passing completions,

330
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has thrown himself
into a score of other record books,

331
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and is likely to be
the year's top draft pick.

332
00:17:59,953 --> 00:18:01,705
And there's more that's unusual.

333
00:18:01,789 --> 00:18:04,500
John is just as hot a prospect
in baseball.

334
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This was one of the most exhilarating days
of my life.

335
00:18:12,382 --> 00:18:14,259
We got this telegram.

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"Congratulations on your selection
by the New York Yankees."

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"We are looking forward to you
becoming a member of the Yankee family."

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"George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees."

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The one thing that really surprised me
is I was their first pick.

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[reporter 5] The Yankees paid him $140,000
to spend a summer in the minors.

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John, an economics major,
must decide between lucrative offers

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from football and baseball.

343
00:18:41,537 --> 00:18:44,414
If there is something special
about John Elway's ability

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to play football and baseball,

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the relationship between
father and son is just as special.

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The best thing that happened to me

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is I've had a father
that has not put pressure on me.

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00:18:54,550 --> 00:18:58,595
Oh, I don't care what he does,
just as long as it's what he wants to do.

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I was so torn because I could see him
as a baseball player.

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And maybe I wanted that a little bit.

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But I knew the family didn't.
I knew Jack didn't.

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And I knew in John's heart,
he didn't either.

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[music fades]

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[suspenseful music playing]

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[reporter] For the last couple of weeks,
he's been the most spoken-about name

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probably in American sport.

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The 48th annual National Football League
selection meeting is now in session.

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First choice, first round,
Baltimore Colts.

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[Elway] My dad wanted to get me
with an organization

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where I had a chance
to be successful and reach my goals.

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[commentator] Don Weiss has just received
a card from the Colts' desk. Let's see.

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Baltimore selects,
as the first choice in the draft,

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quarterback John Elway of Stanford.

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That tells the story right from the top.

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I got drafted by the Colts,

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and Bob Irsay, who was the owner
at that point in time, was very unstable.

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I have not any intention
of moving the goddamn team.

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00:20:04,745 --> 00:20:06,121
If I did, I would tell you…

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00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:08,207
The owner there had a drunken stupor,

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00:20:08,290 --> 00:20:11,585
had taken the headset off
of the offensive coordinator

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at halftime and called plays.

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There was rumors of all kinds of stuff
like that that was going on.

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And so leading up to the draft,
John had told them,

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"I am not coming to play there."

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[Elway] My agent was trying
to get the deal done before the draft,

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and so therefore,
the Colts could look good.

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[Engel] I was sitting in the room with him
when he was on the phone

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and said, "I told you not to draft me.
Now you got nothing."

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00:20:34,691 --> 00:20:39,446
We realize that, uh,
they earned the right to pick first.

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[reporters chuckling]

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00:20:42,866 --> 00:20:46,036
I want this to be known.
We're not challenging the draft.

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00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,123
All of our dealings
were honest, straightforward.

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00:20:50,207 --> 00:20:54,711
Where I'm at right now, I'm bewildered
because I'm really surprised. I mean, I…

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00:20:55,212 --> 00:20:58,423
that after three months of telling them
we won't play in Baltimore…

385
00:20:58,507 --> 00:21:00,300
I mean, here we are.

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00:21:00,801 --> 00:21:03,887
We have an agreement with Baltimore.
We're gonna do it the nice way.

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00:21:03,971 --> 00:21:06,848
We're gonna be… You know,
we don't wanna get anybody in trouble.

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00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:08,308
We don't wanna hurt anybody.

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00:21:08,392 --> 00:21:11,812
I don't know where I'm at right now.
I know that I'm not playing in Baltimore.

390
00:21:11,895 --> 00:21:15,941
Marvin Demoff, the agent for Elway,
has just told me via the telephone

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that John Elway has chosen baseball
since the Baltimore Colts picked him.

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[Elway] We made the commitment

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that I was gonna play baseball for a year
with the Yankees

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and then see what happens.

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My name would have gone back
in the draft the next year,

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and then we would've seen
what happened next year.

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[camera shutters clicking]

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[Elway] I had no idea
how big an issue it might be.

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-[reporter] What are the reasons you have?
-First of all, I don't like cold weather.

400
00:21:41,049 --> 00:21:43,427
-[reporters chuckling]
-I've lived in it before.

401
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[present-day Elway] Everything had
been positive about me up to that point,

402
00:21:46,722 --> 00:21:49,516
but then this
kind of turned the world upside down.

403
00:21:50,017 --> 00:21:53,061
A lot of critics came in
and said that no one bucks the NFL.

404
00:21:53,145 --> 00:21:56,023
For a guy like Elway to come and say,
"I wanna be on the West Coast,

405
00:21:56,106 --> 00:21:58,567
and I wanna be on the beach,
and I'm a California boy,"

406
00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:00,360
well, who cares what you are?

407
00:22:00,444 --> 00:22:02,237
You know?
And he said, "I'll play baseball."

408
00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:04,573
Play baseball. You should play baseball.

409
00:22:04,656 --> 00:22:07,701
Because he's not the kind of guy
you win championships with.

410
00:22:07,784 --> 00:22:11,288
He never did it when he was at Stanford.
Personally, don't care if he ever does it.

411
00:22:11,371 --> 00:22:14,708
[man] John Elway shouldn't come
into the NFL and dictate where he's going.

412
00:22:14,791 --> 00:22:16,626
He could have done
like Terry Bradshaw said

413
00:22:16,710 --> 00:22:18,879
and try to come to Baltimore
and make a winner.

414
00:22:18,962 --> 00:22:22,674
Instead, he, uh, tries to come up
and be a big-time Hollywood star.

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00:22:25,010 --> 00:22:27,763
[Elway] Finally,
I got a call from my agent.

416
00:22:27,846 --> 00:22:30,140
He said, "You cannot tell anybody this,

417
00:22:30,223 --> 00:22:33,852
but we think we have a deal
with you going to Denver."

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00:22:33,935 --> 00:22:36,480
[commentator 1] Let's talk about this.
It's been brewing all night.

419
00:22:36,563 --> 00:22:37,939
Rumors flying around all night.

420
00:22:38,023 --> 00:22:41,318
John Elway is about
to become a Denver Bronco.

421
00:22:41,401 --> 00:22:44,488
The Broncos have called
a press conference for 10:30 tonight.

422
00:22:44,571 --> 00:22:46,323
[commentator 2]
Dan Reeves has left the arena.

423
00:22:46,865 --> 00:22:49,743
I really think that,
you know, that us making a deal

424
00:22:49,826 --> 00:22:51,661
has really helped
the National Football League

425
00:22:51,745 --> 00:22:53,413
because we kept
a great player in our league

426
00:22:53,497 --> 00:22:55,791
that we could not afford,
you know, to lose.

427
00:22:55,874 --> 00:22:58,335
[Elway] I thought Dan coming in
and coming from Dallas,

428
00:22:58,418 --> 00:23:01,088
Dallas was my favorite team growing up.

429
00:23:01,171 --> 00:23:04,174
Had great respect of him,
knew him as a player.

430
00:23:04,257 --> 00:23:06,343
That was something
I was really excited about.

431
00:23:06,927 --> 00:23:08,595
[Reeves] Of course, I'm thrilled to death.

432
00:23:08,678 --> 00:23:09,971
[reporters chuckling]

433
00:23:10,055 --> 00:23:14,059
There's not many chances that you get
to get a player like John Elway.

434
00:23:14,643 --> 00:23:16,144
[Elway] It was a matter of ten hours.

435
00:23:16,228 --> 00:23:18,355
I'm standing
in front of all the press in Denver

436
00:23:18,438 --> 00:23:20,774
and talking about me being a Bronco.

437
00:23:20,857 --> 00:23:24,820
Denver was always on our list. It was
always the team I wanted to play for.

438
00:23:24,903 --> 00:23:27,864
As far as the Baltimore thing,
I… I consider that thing kind of dead.

439
00:23:27,948 --> 00:23:29,116
That's in the past.

440
00:23:29,199 --> 00:23:31,159
Um, I'd like to discuss the future

441
00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:34,955
and, uh, uh,
with being with the Denver Broncos.

442
00:23:35,038 --> 00:23:38,041
-[ominous music playing]
-[crowd chanting] Elway sucks!

443
00:23:38,125 --> 00:23:41,002
Elway sucks! Elway sucks!

444
00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:43,547
[commentator] Good afternoon
from Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

445
00:23:43,630 --> 00:23:46,007
It's 100 degrees here right now,

446
00:23:46,091 --> 00:23:48,844
but that's nothing compared
to the temperature in the stands,

447
00:23:48,927 --> 00:23:51,680
where 50,000 fans have come
to boo John Elway.

448
00:23:51,763 --> 00:23:56,268
[chanting] Elway sucks!
Elway sucks! Elway sucks!

449
00:23:56,351 --> 00:23:58,478
[cameraman] Say "stinks"
so they can use it.

450
00:23:58,562 --> 00:24:01,773
[chanting] Elway stinks! Elway stinks!

451
00:24:01,857 --> 00:24:04,568
[Elway] I was called more names that game
coming out of the locker room

452
00:24:04,651 --> 00:24:06,903
than I had ever been called in my life.

453
00:24:07,571 --> 00:24:11,450
Those fans and those people that lived
in Baltimore really took offense to it.

454
00:24:11,533 --> 00:24:13,535
[chanting] Elway sucks!

455
00:24:13,618 --> 00:24:15,287
[Elway] But I did not wanna go
to Baltimore

456
00:24:15,370 --> 00:24:17,456
because it was Baltimore or whatnot.

457
00:24:17,539 --> 00:24:21,251
I'd never been to Baltimore,
and that never had anything to do with it.

458
00:24:21,334 --> 00:24:23,795
Hey, Elway, you big sissy!

459
00:24:23,879 --> 00:24:26,131
-[dramatic music playing]
-[crowd cheering]

460
00:24:26,214 --> 00:24:27,507
[speech drowned out by cheering]

461
00:24:28,091 --> 00:24:31,553
Come on, Elway! You're gonna be
carried out on a stretcher, you wimp!

462
00:24:32,929 --> 00:24:36,099
What a way to start your career.
Have such enemies.

463
00:24:36,766 --> 00:24:38,643
They beat him to a pulp.

464
00:24:42,772 --> 00:24:43,690
Come on!

465
00:24:43,773 --> 00:24:45,233
[boos]

466
00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:47,694
Oh, that's something. [laughs]

467
00:24:48,820 --> 00:24:51,448
[Elway] I did not ever take my helmet off
during that whole game

468
00:24:51,531 --> 00:24:53,867
'cause there were bottles
flying out of the stands.

469
00:24:54,534 --> 00:24:57,621
[chanting] Elway sucks! Elway sucks!

470
00:24:57,704 --> 00:25:01,291
Elway sucks! Elway sucks!

471
00:25:01,374 --> 00:25:03,376
[somber music playing]

472
00:25:05,629 --> 00:25:06,671
I've said it all along.

473
00:25:06,755 --> 00:25:09,132
I never had any hard feelings
about the people here.

474
00:25:09,216 --> 00:25:12,302
So, you know, the way that they feel
about what they feel,

475
00:25:12,385 --> 00:25:13,929
I guess they showed today, so…

476
00:25:14,012 --> 00:25:18,141
-[reporter] Any hard feelings about them?
-No. I'm just sure glad I'm in Denver.

477
00:25:18,225 --> 00:25:20,227
[downbeat music stab]

478
00:25:21,686 --> 00:25:24,189
[present-day Elway] First four games
were very… They were tough.

479
00:25:24,272 --> 00:25:26,775
-[uneasy music playing]
-My head was spinning.

480
00:25:27,442 --> 00:25:30,779
[reporter] Are you tough enough?
Do you feel tough enough to be a QB?

481
00:25:30,862 --> 00:25:34,324
I don't think there's any question
in my mind that I'm tough enough.

482
00:25:35,617 --> 00:25:37,494
[Antonopulos] His first year,
it was incredible.

483
00:25:37,577 --> 00:25:41,081
I'd never seen anybody
get beat around like he did.

484
00:25:42,165 --> 00:25:45,919
[Kubiak] It wasn't easy being John.
I know he was under a lot of pressure.

485
00:25:46,002 --> 00:25:50,090
The entire organization counting on him
to turn that organization around

486
00:25:50,173 --> 00:25:52,592
or take them to a championship someday.

487
00:25:53,385 --> 00:25:55,595
[Antonopulos] I think
everyone was expecting

488
00:25:55,679 --> 00:25:59,182
that John was gonna take us
to the top right away

489
00:25:59,266 --> 00:26:02,978
and didn't quite understand
all the process that he had to go through.

490
00:26:03,061 --> 00:26:04,145
[fans cheering]

491
00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:07,607
[commentator] Jimmy, he got all the money
and all the ballyhoo in the world.

492
00:26:07,691 --> 00:26:10,569
-Was he overblown by the media?
-[Jimmy] No.

493
00:26:10,652 --> 00:26:14,030
-[commentator] Is he gonna make it?
-He just needs some salt and pepper.

494
00:26:14,114 --> 00:26:15,323
He needs seasoning.

495
00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:18,618
I mean, a kid out of college
isn't gonna read those defenses.

496
00:26:18,702 --> 00:26:20,704
[tense music playing]

497
00:26:22,539 --> 00:26:26,209
With Dan's offense,
it was very different than I was used to.

498
00:26:27,794 --> 00:26:30,255
I had a tough time adjusting to it.

499
00:26:31,006 --> 00:26:33,592
Dan felt like there was
a way to win football games.

500
00:26:33,675 --> 00:26:36,553
That old school, run the football,

501
00:26:36,636 --> 00:26:37,887
play tough defense,

502
00:26:37,971 --> 00:26:39,472
not make mistakes.

503
00:26:39,556 --> 00:26:43,727
John felt like he could win the game
with his ability, period.

504
00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:46,563
[Reeves] The basic things
that John had to learn

505
00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:49,816
was to make sure that his beliefs
were the same as the coaching staff

506
00:26:49,899 --> 00:26:52,861
and blending
our offensive philosophy together.

507
00:26:54,112 --> 00:26:56,323
Dang, John! Shit!

508
00:26:58,325 --> 00:27:02,746
[Schefter] Dan was
a very… strong-minded individual,

509
00:27:02,829 --> 00:27:05,248
and Dan liked things his way.

510
00:27:05,332 --> 00:27:09,127
And by the way, Dan was one of the most
successful football coaches of all time.

511
00:27:10,253 --> 00:27:11,755
[Elway] The difference that we had was

512
00:27:11,838 --> 00:27:14,841
I never felt like we were attacking
on the offensive side.

513
00:27:14,924 --> 00:27:17,177
We weren't going out there
to win football games.

514
00:27:17,260 --> 00:27:19,804
We were going out there
to make sure we didn't lose the game.

515
00:27:20,639 --> 00:27:22,849
[Reeves] It didn't work out
the way I wanted it to.

516
00:27:23,475 --> 00:27:27,103
Well, that's my fault, I guess,
expecting too much out of John too quick.

517
00:27:27,187 --> 00:27:31,358
Uh, defenses are very complicated
in the National Football League,

518
00:27:31,441 --> 00:27:33,693
and, you know,
he hasn't shown that he's ready

519
00:27:33,777 --> 00:27:35,987
to handle all the things
that are thrown at him.

520
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,742
[music fades]

521
00:27:40,825 --> 00:27:43,495
Dan had called me in and said,
"We're gonna go with Steve."

522
00:27:44,537 --> 00:27:48,041
Steve DeBerg, who was
the guy I was competing with at the time,

523
00:27:48,124 --> 00:27:50,502
started the next four games.

524
00:27:50,585 --> 00:27:54,255
What they're doing is coming after him
and making him think very fast,

525
00:27:54,339 --> 00:27:57,342
where everything isn't natural
for him yet.

526
00:27:57,926 --> 00:28:00,804
It's been difficult for John.
I'd hate to be in that situation.

527
00:28:00,887 --> 00:28:02,764
Love to be making his money. [chuckles]

528
00:28:02,847 --> 00:28:04,474
[somber music playing]

529
00:28:04,557 --> 00:28:06,559
[Elway] I was really, really upset.

530
00:28:07,644 --> 00:28:12,232
At 22 years old,
it was very tough to go through.

531
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,735
You know, it made me wonder, uh, you know…

532
00:28:15,819 --> 00:28:17,946
[coughs] …"Did I make the right decision?"

533
00:28:22,659 --> 00:28:24,285
[music fades]

534
00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:27,247
[Reeves] I think there are three "nevers"
to being a winning coach.

535
00:28:27,997 --> 00:28:31,084
Never let the press pick
your starting quarterback.

536
00:28:32,043 --> 00:28:34,546
Never take a last-place team lightly.

537
00:28:35,338 --> 00:28:39,718
And really, no matter what the score,
never let 'em see you sweat.

538
00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:41,636
[downbeat music playing]

539
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,222
[Elway] My dad was the guy
that I'd always call.

540
00:28:44,973 --> 00:28:49,144
And he was always the guy that would
get me back in the right direction again.

541
00:28:51,312 --> 00:28:54,607
My dad always said,
"You can't take the easy way out."

542
00:28:56,901 --> 00:28:59,821
"And you're gonna have to do things
that you don't wanna do in life."

543
00:28:59,904 --> 00:29:03,908
"What's your attitude when you're doing
those things that you don't wanna do?"

544
00:29:05,368 --> 00:29:07,537
When I look back at my first year,

545
00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:10,707
when Dan decided to sit me down
and go with Steve,

546
00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:14,127
I realized that it was probably the best
thing that could've happened to me.

547
00:29:14,210 --> 00:29:18,882
I had a chance, you know, to sit and watch
for four weeks, get on the sideline,

548
00:29:18,965 --> 00:29:20,383
get out of the middle of everything,

549
00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:23,178
and kind of watch a little bit more,
grow up a little bit.

550
00:29:25,138 --> 00:29:26,973
[commentator] We've got DeBerg down.

551
00:29:27,056 --> 00:29:29,267
He took a shot
right straight in the chest.

552
00:29:29,350 --> 00:29:32,395
[Elway] And then Steve ended up
getting hurt, and so then I was back in.

553
00:29:32,479 --> 00:29:34,606
[commentator] Here comes John Elway.

554
00:29:34,689 --> 00:29:37,317
He's got to learn to read the defenses.
He knows that.

555
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,152
And he has really been working on it.

556
00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:41,696
And the whole Denver camp says
he has improved tremendously.

557
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:45,241
Here he is, on the 48 of Seattle,
John Elway.

558
00:29:45,325 --> 00:29:46,868
[music turns inspirational]

559
00:29:54,292 --> 00:29:56,169
Elway going for it all!

560
00:29:57,086 --> 00:29:58,338
Touchdown!

561
00:29:59,714 --> 00:30:01,508
And the Broncos are on the scoreboard

562
00:30:01,591 --> 00:30:04,385
as Elway gets
his second touchdown pass of the year.

563
00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:06,596
[Elway] Then when I got a second chance,

564
00:30:06,679 --> 00:30:09,891
was able to start making improvement
week in and week out.

565
00:30:09,974 --> 00:30:14,562
John has matured a lot this year
and a lot more confidence in the huddle.

566
00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:17,899
We get more confidence, and it just…
it just helps the whole thing.

567
00:30:18,858 --> 00:30:22,862
[Elway] Things got a lot better.
We were winning some football games.

568
00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:26,574
Well, this ball is very important.

569
00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:29,536
This is my rookie year,
and we're playing the Colts.

570
00:30:29,619 --> 00:30:30,745
[crowd cheering]

571
00:30:35,124 --> 00:30:40,839
The frustration level that I had
going into this game was tremendous.

572
00:30:41,714 --> 00:30:45,218
And then we go down 19-0, you know.
And now it's like, "Oh boy."

573
00:30:46,427 --> 00:30:49,055
We finally get into the fourth quarter.
We start getting momentum.

574
00:30:49,138 --> 00:30:51,307
Let's make a play! Let's go!

575
00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:53,309
[commentator 1] Elway,
with some protection,

576
00:30:53,393 --> 00:30:55,228
throwing into the end zone for Sampson.

577
00:30:55,311 --> 00:30:56,688
He's got the ball! Touchdown!

578
00:30:56,771 --> 00:30:58,064
[crowd roars]

579
00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:02,610
Receivers left.
Fourth down and 2, Broncos.

580
00:31:02,694 --> 00:31:05,238
Elway is back.
Here comes the safety blitz.

581
00:31:06,197 --> 00:31:08,157
Willhite at the 10! Willhite at the 5!

582
00:31:08,241 --> 00:31:10,743
Willhite to the goal! Touchdown!

583
00:31:11,536 --> 00:31:15,498
Fourth-and-2, and the Broncos get
the touchdown to go ahead!

584
00:31:15,582 --> 00:31:18,585
There's the backflip from Gerald Willhite.

585
00:31:18,668 --> 00:31:20,211
[commentator 2] An unbelievable finish.

586
00:31:20,295 --> 00:31:22,881
The relief I felt after this game
was tremendous.

587
00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:26,301
It was the first comeback
that I'd had in my career.

588
00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:30,471
[commentator 2] I think that's what
the Broncos paid $5,000,000 for.

589
00:31:30,555 --> 00:31:32,307
[commentator 1] Yeah, I would say.

590
00:31:32,390 --> 00:31:33,600
[music fades]

591
00:31:33,683 --> 00:31:35,435
We just got off the phone
with Edgar Kaiser,

592
00:31:35,518 --> 00:31:36,519
the owner of the Broncos.

593
00:31:36,603 --> 00:31:41,941
He has just sold 51% of the team
to Pat Bowlen, an Edmonton businessman.

594
00:31:42,025 --> 00:31:44,652
[high-pitched tone plays, stops]

595
00:31:44,736 --> 00:31:46,821
-Good morning.
-[cameraman] Take one.

596
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:50,283
Here I am. Denver's newest rookie.

597
00:31:50,366 --> 00:31:54,162
[Elway] Pat Bowlen was a tremendous owner,
really cared about his players.

598
00:31:54,245 --> 00:31:58,082
Also, the number one thing in his book
was winning football games.

599
00:31:58,166 --> 00:32:00,418
The number one goal is
to win the Super Bowl.

600
00:32:00,501 --> 00:32:03,212
And in my case,
it's not just to win one Super Bowl.

601
00:32:03,296 --> 00:32:08,468
It's to win a number of Super Bowls
because I plan to be here for a long time.

602
00:32:08,551 --> 00:32:09,969
[intriguing music playing]

603
00:32:10,053 --> 00:32:14,307
First time in practice, I saw him throw
the ball over 80 yards with no effort.

604
00:32:14,390 --> 00:32:16,434
I'm going, "Man, this guy's a freak."

605
00:32:17,852 --> 00:32:20,688
That's the reason
I actually came to Denver over Philly,

606
00:32:20,772 --> 00:32:22,357
was the opportunity to coach John.

607
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,026
Mike Shanahan came
in my second year, in 1984.

608
00:32:25,735 --> 00:32:28,154
Mike and I became very, very close.

609
00:32:28,237 --> 00:32:30,073
We were like almost best friends.

610
00:32:30,156 --> 00:32:34,494
I think that he was able to give me
the ideas of what Dan was thinking.

611
00:32:34,994 --> 00:32:38,081
And I think that led to me having
a much better year my second year.

612
00:32:38,164 --> 00:32:39,207
Set hut!

613
00:32:39,290 --> 00:32:41,459
[dramatic music playing]

614
00:32:43,419 --> 00:32:44,712
Damn. Damn.

615
00:32:44,796 --> 00:32:47,423
He kept on working, never looked back.

616
00:32:48,216 --> 00:32:49,258
[Elway] Damn!

617
00:32:49,342 --> 00:32:52,887
People have no idea
how hard this guy worked to be who he was.

618
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:54,305
[Elway] Set hut!

619
00:32:58,768 --> 00:32:59,769
Way to work, man.

620
00:32:59,852 --> 00:33:03,189
He made his mark in the offseason.
He made his mark when no one was looking.

621
00:33:03,272 --> 00:33:07,068
[man] This growth period,
this evolution, that was all part of it.

622
00:33:07,151 --> 00:33:09,112
You have to have some trials
to get stronger.

623
00:33:09,195 --> 00:33:11,823
[commentator] That's not even
a great quarterback throw.

624
00:33:11,906 --> 00:33:13,616
That's a Superman throw!

625
00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:17,537
I don't know that there's anyone else
in the NFL that makes this throw.

626
00:33:18,746 --> 00:33:22,208
[Kubiak] People saw the talent,
but John took it to a new level.

627
00:33:22,291 --> 00:33:25,837
His strength and his body
and the things he did physically.

628
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,590
[commentator] I tell you, that Elway's
a competitor. He ran that like a fullback.

629
00:33:29,674 --> 00:33:32,635
He could've stayed out to his right.
Look at the hole he had.

630
00:33:32,719 --> 00:33:34,345
But he wanted to make the cutback,

631
00:33:34,429 --> 00:33:36,597
lower his shoulder, drive those legs.

632
00:33:36,681 --> 00:33:38,808
Drive, drive, drive, drive!

633
00:33:38,891 --> 00:33:41,310
Doesn't look like
he's the fastest guy on the planet.

634
00:33:41,394 --> 00:33:44,022
But I'm telling you,
his ability to escape,

635
00:33:44,105 --> 00:33:45,523
it is absolutely amazing.

636
00:33:45,606 --> 00:33:47,567
[Elway] I wanted to be
the greatest to ever play.

637
00:33:47,650 --> 00:33:49,986
[commentator] Elway's gonna run it.
And he's got the 10.

638
00:33:50,069 --> 00:33:51,279
He scores!

639
00:33:51,362 --> 00:33:53,114
[Elway] That was
my expectations of myself.

640
00:33:53,197 --> 00:33:55,867
So what other people thought I could do
was secondary.

641
00:33:55,950 --> 00:33:58,327
One of the main reasons
the Broncos are winning

642
00:33:58,411 --> 00:34:01,873
is because their quarterback, John Elway,
is having a sensational year.

643
00:34:01,956 --> 00:34:04,459
There's no question
I'm a lot better quarterback this year.

644
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,335
I'm starting to feel I belong in the NFL.

645
00:34:06,419 --> 00:34:08,337
[commentator] Remember the year
he was drafted?

646
00:34:08,421 --> 00:34:11,424
A lot of people wondered,
did they make a mistake?

647
00:34:11,507 --> 00:34:13,968
I think he's answering
those questions now.

648
00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:16,721
[man] He knows he's the man
that's gonna lead this offense.

649
00:34:16,804 --> 00:34:18,598
He's really stepped forward as a leader.

650
00:34:18,681 --> 00:34:21,809
That's the way to fight!
Big dog, you got me. Way to fight!

651
00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:25,313
We wanna show people out there
that we do have a great football team.

652
00:34:25,396 --> 00:34:27,774
The only way we're gonna do that
is by winning the Super Bowl.

653
00:34:27,857 --> 00:34:29,734
[commentator 1] To Sewell.
He's looking to throw.

654
00:34:29,817 --> 00:34:32,195
Elway! Elway's got it.

655
00:34:32,278 --> 00:34:33,988
John Elway, heading for the end zone!

656
00:34:34,072 --> 00:34:36,324
Touchdown, Denver! What a play!

657
00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:38,451
[commentator 2] Broncos rally to win.

658
00:34:38,534 --> 00:34:41,537
An inspirational comeback
engineered by John Elway.

659
00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:45,458
[commentator 1] Offensively, they have
a rising young superstar in John Elway.

660
00:34:45,541 --> 00:34:47,001
And while he is great right now,

661
00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:49,754
he is going to be
one of the greats of all time, I think.

662
00:34:49,837 --> 00:34:52,673
And I think a lot of people agree with me.
He can do it all.

663
00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:53,966
[producer] Roll six.

664
00:34:55,426 --> 00:34:57,845
[interviewer] Of all
the, uh, legendary comebacks

665
00:34:57,929 --> 00:34:59,222
John Elway has led,

666
00:34:59,305 --> 00:35:00,765
which one's your favorite?

667
00:35:01,265 --> 00:35:02,934
Wow. He's had so many.

668
00:35:03,017 --> 00:35:06,687
You know, I'd have to say,
because what was at stake, uh,

669
00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:07,730
the Cleveland game.

670
00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:09,398
[intriguing music playing]

671
00:35:09,482 --> 00:35:13,361
[Jackson] There's a lot of drives
in the NFL, if you look at the annals.

672
00:35:13,444 --> 00:35:17,448
But there's only one
that's called "The Drive."

673
00:35:19,367 --> 00:35:21,119
[commentator] And so we're moments away.

674
00:35:21,202 --> 00:35:23,871
The Cleveland Browns
and the Denver Broncos

675
00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:26,124
for the AFC Championship.

676
00:35:26,207 --> 00:35:28,376
These are a pair of teams
who have not been to this stage

677
00:35:28,459 --> 00:35:29,961
of the playoffs for some time.

678
00:35:30,753 --> 00:35:32,630
[man] It was cold and windy.

679
00:35:33,214 --> 00:35:35,299
Playing there, and you got the Dawg Pound.

680
00:35:35,383 --> 00:35:38,427
-[fans barking]
-[Jackson] Dog biscuits. Sandwiches.

681
00:35:38,511 --> 00:35:39,971
Batteries.

682
00:35:40,054 --> 00:35:41,139
That's all in that end zone.

683
00:35:41,222 --> 00:35:44,267
Whoever wins goes to Super Bowl.

684
00:35:44,350 --> 00:35:46,811
[music turns tense]

685
00:35:49,438 --> 00:35:51,607
[Elway] It was a good battle
the whole game.

686
00:35:51,691 --> 00:35:54,777
[commentator] Brian Brennan. He's got it!

687
00:35:54,861 --> 00:35:57,780
[Elway] They scored
with five minutes to go in the game.

688
00:36:00,116 --> 00:36:03,244
But we figured we had some chances
to win this football game.

689
00:36:04,954 --> 00:36:06,873
And then they kicked off to us.

690
00:36:08,916 --> 00:36:11,961
[commentator] A critical mistake
by Gene Lang.

691
00:36:12,461 --> 00:36:15,715
If he lets that football go,
it gets into the end zone.

692
00:36:15,798 --> 00:36:19,886
I think he panicked.
He covered it on the 2-yard line

693
00:36:20,386 --> 00:36:23,556
and forces Elway and the offense
to start way back

694
00:36:23,639 --> 00:36:25,516
on the one-and-a-half-yard line.

695
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:30,313
The drive starting at the two-yard line
with five minutes to go in the game.

696
00:36:30,396 --> 00:36:32,607
Well, we know
we have our work cut out for us.

697
00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:34,483
[Bishop] We look over, and all the Browns,

698
00:36:34,567 --> 00:36:36,611
they're all looking at us
with shit-eating grins.

699
00:36:36,694 --> 00:36:38,279
I go, "Look at them fuckers."

700
00:36:39,363 --> 00:36:42,658
He looked at me, and he said, "John,
we got 'em right where we want 'em."

701
00:36:50,583 --> 00:36:52,335
This being my fourth year,

702
00:36:52,835 --> 00:36:55,379
I really hadn't lived up
to the expectations

703
00:36:55,463 --> 00:36:57,506
that I was going to win
a World Championship.

704
00:36:58,758 --> 00:36:59,884
So this was the moment.

705
00:36:59,967 --> 00:37:01,969
[music turns dramatic]

706
00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:07,975
[commentator 1] Elway to Winder. To the 7.

707
00:37:08,059 --> 00:37:10,603
All right, 7, baby! All right!

708
00:37:11,103 --> 00:37:13,147
[commentator 2] The pressure is on
the quarterback,

709
00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:14,815
with a long ways to the end zone.

710
00:37:15,316 --> 00:37:18,819
[commentator 1] Sewell.
Oh, how did he hang on to it?

711
00:37:18,903 --> 00:37:22,323
Steve Sewell at the 48-yard line.

712
00:37:23,366 --> 00:37:27,954
[Elway] Now that we're at the 50,
we know that we're in four-down territory.

713
00:37:28,037 --> 00:37:29,789
We're not trying
to get in field-goal range.

714
00:37:29,872 --> 00:37:31,290
We need a touchdown.

715
00:37:31,374 --> 00:37:33,376
[music subsides]

716
00:37:35,169 --> 00:37:38,005
[muffled impacts]

717
00:37:43,219 --> 00:37:46,847
This was when the stadium just went crazy.

718
00:37:47,723 --> 00:37:50,977
[commentator 2] And doggone it,
are they happy in Cleveland!

719
00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:56,148
[Jackson] Elway gets sacked.
And now it's a third-and-18.

720
00:37:57,191 --> 00:38:01,195
And the home team is thinking,
"Man, it's lights out."

721
00:38:01,279 --> 00:38:03,281
[downbeat music playing]

722
00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:09,870
[man] Dan Reeves tells Elway,
"Don't try to get it all in one play."

723
00:38:09,954 --> 00:38:13,124
That's like telling
John Wayne not to shoot the bad guy.

724
00:38:13,207 --> 00:38:15,209
[music turns dramatic]

725
00:38:15,751 --> 00:38:21,007
[Elway] Truly great quarterbacks are able
to perform in tough situations

726
00:38:21,090 --> 00:38:22,758
when all the odds are against you.

727
00:38:25,636 --> 00:38:29,015
[Saccomano] He sees Mark Jackson open.
A rocket to him.

728
00:38:29,098 --> 00:38:33,644
[commentator 1] Elway is able to drill
a 25-yard pass to rookie Mark Jackson.

729
00:38:33,728 --> 00:38:36,063
[Elway] After this play,
things really changed,

730
00:38:36,147 --> 00:38:38,524
and things in that stadium got
a heck of a lot quieter.

731
00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:41,736
Now we've got some momentum.

732
00:38:43,070 --> 00:38:45,948
[commentator 1] Screen to Sewell,
has blockers.

733
00:38:46,490 --> 00:38:50,578
It is Denver's ball
for another four downs.

734
00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:52,747
Clock continues to run.

735
00:38:52,830 --> 00:38:57,877
Cleveland 20, Denver 13. Final minute.

736
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,962
[music turns suspenseful]

737
00:39:01,505 --> 00:39:04,175
[Jackson] This is the play
that is John Elway.

738
00:39:05,468 --> 00:39:07,011
His ability to extend the play.

739
00:39:07,094 --> 00:39:09,388
[commentator 1] Elway alertly
on second down,

740
00:39:09,472 --> 00:39:12,516
getting out of bounds
with 42 seconds left.

741
00:39:13,017 --> 00:39:17,104
Short of the first down at the 5,

742
00:39:17,188 --> 00:39:19,482
third-and-1.

743
00:39:21,233 --> 00:39:22,985
[Jackson] We just need one yard.

744
00:39:24,236 --> 00:39:28,699
When we ran this play several times
during the season, I never got the ball.

745
00:39:28,783 --> 00:39:30,785
[music intensifies]

746
00:39:34,663 --> 00:39:35,998
[music subsides]

747
00:39:42,922 --> 00:39:45,424
-[crowd roars]
-[inspirational music playing]

748
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:48,552
[commentator 1] Touchdown, Mark Jackson!

749
00:39:56,018 --> 00:40:00,940
[commentator 2] Elway
leads the Broncos 98 yards

750
00:40:01,524 --> 00:40:05,653
to bring them within one point
of tying this game.

751
00:40:11,283 --> 00:40:13,536
[commentator 1] 20-20.

752
00:40:13,619 --> 00:40:17,248
And now Cleveland says,
"We'll play you in overtime."

753
00:40:17,998 --> 00:40:20,126
[commentator 2] Clock does not matter
in this situation.

754
00:40:20,209 --> 00:40:25,464
The first score, be it touchdown
or field goal, will end this contest.

755
00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:27,800
[commentator 1] He's got running room
but elects to throw.

756
00:40:27,883 --> 00:40:31,387
And there's Watson at the 23-yard line.

757
00:40:31,470 --> 00:40:32,972
[music subsides]

758
00:40:33,055 --> 00:40:37,768
And it's all on the shoulders
and the foot of Rich Karlis.

759
00:40:40,062 --> 00:40:43,524
Suddenly, as quiet in Cleveland Stadium
at this moment

760
00:40:43,607 --> 00:40:45,568
as it has been the entire game.

761
00:40:47,486 --> 00:40:50,698
[crowd noise muted]

762
00:40:52,408 --> 00:40:54,410
[silence]

763
00:40:57,121 --> 00:40:59,123
[triumphant music playing]

764
00:40:59,206 --> 00:41:01,208
[players, staff celebrating wildly]

765
00:41:15,598 --> 00:41:18,100
Oh my God! It's unbelievable!

766
00:41:18,726 --> 00:41:20,644
It's beautiful! Beautiful!

767
00:41:21,770 --> 00:41:23,981
[Elway] The first thought
that came to my mind is,

768
00:41:24,064 --> 00:41:27,443
"My dad's going to be proud
that I did this and was a part of this."

769
00:41:27,526 --> 00:41:30,905
Super Bowl! Super Bowl!
We going to the Super Bowl! [laughs]

770
00:41:30,988 --> 00:41:34,617
[Elway] People started saying that maybe
the little spoiled brat from California

771
00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:36,952
could actually be a very good quarterback.

772
00:41:37,036 --> 00:41:39,038
[music fades]

773
00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:41,207
[reporter] At Denver's airport,

774
00:41:41,290 --> 00:41:43,501
thousands gathered
for the Broncos' homecoming,

775
00:41:43,584 --> 00:41:44,752
blocking streets,

776
00:41:44,835 --> 00:41:48,005
slowing emergency vehicles,
and stopping traffic.

777
00:41:48,088 --> 00:41:50,090
[crowd cheering]

778
00:41:50,841 --> 00:41:53,511
I think it was a bit overwhelming for me,
to be honest with you.

779
00:41:54,261 --> 00:41:57,806
For my career, that really was
my kind of coming-out party.

780
00:41:57,890 --> 00:42:00,100
Wow!

781
00:42:00,184 --> 00:42:02,186
[crowd cheering]

782
00:42:03,437 --> 00:42:04,897
Wow!

783
00:42:04,980 --> 00:42:08,776
The Drive changed everything forevermore.

784
00:42:08,859 --> 00:42:11,362
♪ Big John ♪

785
00:42:11,445 --> 00:42:13,948
♪ Big John ♪

786
00:42:14,448 --> 00:42:17,034
♪ Every morning at the mine
You could see him arrive ♪

787
00:42:17,117 --> 00:42:19,828
♪ He stood six foot six and weighed 245 ♪

788
00:42:19,912 --> 00:42:22,706
♪ Kinda broad at the shoulder
And narrow at the hip ♪

789
00:42:22,790 --> 00:42:26,085
♪ And everybody knew
You didn't give no lip to Big John ♪

790
00:42:26,168 --> 00:42:28,087
Johnny Elway!

791
00:42:28,170 --> 00:42:29,255
♪ Big John… ♪

792
00:42:29,338 --> 00:42:32,091
Johnny Elway, superstar!

793
00:42:32,174 --> 00:42:35,010
[Smith] My nephew loves you.
You got anything in your locker?

794
00:42:35,094 --> 00:42:36,971
[Jackson] Got the nickname
"The Duke of Denver."

795
00:42:37,054 --> 00:42:38,305
[Saccomano] Duke of Denver.

796
00:42:38,389 --> 00:42:39,473
[Elway] The Duke of Denver.

797
00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:42,184
♪ Nobody seemed to know
Where John called home… ♪

798
00:42:42,268 --> 00:42:44,728
[Elway] This is a collection
of John Wayne's guns

799
00:42:44,812 --> 00:42:46,522
that are used in many of his movies.

800
00:42:46,605 --> 00:42:49,775
I had an opportunity to buy these,
and so I jumped at that opportunity.

801
00:42:49,858 --> 00:42:51,193
Hold it!

802
00:42:51,277 --> 00:42:53,279
[Elway] John Wayne was one of my heroes.

803
00:42:53,362 --> 00:42:55,864
I thought he was
one of the coolest dudes on earth.

804
00:42:56,448 --> 00:43:00,119
I got great admiration for John Wayne
and the way that he walked and talked.

805
00:43:00,202 --> 00:43:01,787
I'd let it drop, friend.

806
00:43:01,870 --> 00:43:03,122
Don't get mad, mister.

807
00:43:03,205 --> 00:43:05,416
[Elway] I've always enjoyed cowboy movies.

808
00:43:05,499 --> 00:43:07,209
You want that gun? Pick it up.

809
00:43:07,293 --> 00:43:08,460
I wish you would.

810
00:43:08,544 --> 00:43:10,879
I love history, and I just look back

811
00:43:10,963 --> 00:43:15,134
at how hard it was back in those times,
to live in those times and be a cowboy

812
00:43:15,217 --> 00:43:17,720
and what they went through.
I got deep respect for 'em.

813
00:43:17,803 --> 00:43:20,306
[man] I could see him in a shootout.

814
00:43:20,389 --> 00:43:22,433
I could literally see him standing there.

815
00:43:22,516 --> 00:43:25,519
Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!

816
00:43:25,603 --> 00:43:27,479
His demeanor is to win.

817
00:43:27,563 --> 00:43:29,398
Red 98! Hut, hut!

818
00:43:30,232 --> 00:43:32,568
♪ Through the dust and the smoke
Of this man-made hell ♪

819
00:43:32,651 --> 00:43:35,362
♪ Walked a giant of a man
That the miners knew well ♪

820
00:43:35,446 --> 00:43:38,032
♪ Grabbed a sagging timber
And gave out with a groan… ♪

821
00:43:38,115 --> 00:43:41,577
[Elway] I say that my best impression is
a John Wayne impression, which is,

822
00:43:41,660 --> 00:43:43,537
[as John Wayne] "I would've
been there quicker,

823
00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:45,581
but I got bushwhacked at the pass."

824
00:43:45,664 --> 00:43:48,208
And so I do that
to my friends all the time. [chuckles]

825
00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:51,503
That's the only thing he can say though.
If you ask him anything else, forget it.

826
00:43:51,587 --> 00:43:53,213
[laughs]

827
00:43:53,297 --> 00:43:57,092
So The Drive allowed him to be celebrated,

828
00:43:57,176 --> 00:43:58,260
but let's be real.

829
00:43:58,344 --> 00:44:01,388
He was gonna have to win a Super Bowl
to be coronated.

830
00:44:01,472 --> 00:44:03,766
Let's make a little noise, Colorado.

831
00:44:03,849 --> 00:44:06,352
-[rifle fire]
-[fans cheering]

832
00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:10,564
[fans chanting] Super Bowl! Super Bowl!
Super Bowl! Super Bowl!

833
00:44:10,648 --> 00:44:12,858
[younger Elway] As a Pop Warner player,
when you're young,

834
00:44:12,941 --> 00:44:14,610
your goal is to play in the Super Bowl.

835
00:44:14,693 --> 00:44:17,196
Hopefully, I'll be able
to keep my nerves under control.

836
00:44:17,279 --> 00:44:19,156
[tense music playing]

837
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,492
[crowd cheering, yelling]

838
00:44:25,287 --> 00:44:28,207
[commentator 1] It's a big question
whether the Giants, with their defense,

839
00:44:28,290 --> 00:44:30,250
can handle the trickery of John Elway.

840
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:33,337
[Reeves] All right, gang, this is what
we worked for for a long, long time.

841
00:44:33,420 --> 00:44:35,964
Let's go every play as hard as we can.
Now let's get at it.

842
00:44:36,048 --> 00:44:37,841
[music turns dramatic]

843
00:44:37,925 --> 00:44:40,761
[commentator 2] Elway to throw
on first down. Comes out of the pocket.

844
00:44:40,844 --> 00:44:42,137
This is what they dreaded.

845
00:44:42,638 --> 00:44:44,723
Elway scrambles on first down.

846
00:44:47,810 --> 00:44:50,646
Jackson in Giants territory.

847
00:44:50,729 --> 00:44:52,314
Elway up the middle.

848
00:44:52,398 --> 00:44:53,524
Touchdown.

849
00:44:55,651 --> 00:44:58,821
[commentator 3] You can't give him a lane.
That's what the Giants did,

850
00:44:58,904 --> 00:45:01,573
and that's what makes Elway so effective.

851
00:45:01,657 --> 00:45:04,159
[reporter] Perhaps the best
first quarter that's been played

852
00:45:04,243 --> 00:45:06,412
in the history of the Super Bowl so far.

853
00:45:06,495 --> 00:45:09,707
[Elway] The Giant game,
played really well in the first quarter.

854
00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:12,251
Unfortunately, right before the half,

855
00:45:12,334 --> 00:45:15,462
we had a first-and-goal on the 1,
and we walked away with no points.

856
00:45:15,546 --> 00:45:18,215
[commentator 2] Twenty-four yards out.
Kubiak holding.

857
00:45:19,007 --> 00:45:20,384
Karlis is no good.

858
00:45:20,467 --> 00:45:22,469
[downbeat music playing]

859
00:45:23,804 --> 00:45:25,556
[Elway] And we got worse from there.

860
00:45:32,646 --> 00:45:35,441
[commentator 2] And now it is all gone
against the Broncos.

861
00:45:35,524 --> 00:45:37,025
Their brilliant first half

862
00:45:37,109 --> 00:45:40,154
with the Giants dominating
in this third quarter.

863
00:45:41,155 --> 00:45:44,658
[commentator 3] The Broncos
have run seven plays.

864
00:45:45,242 --> 00:45:48,328
Seven plays for two yards
in the third quarter.

865
00:45:49,913 --> 00:45:52,499
[commentator 4] Simms to Bavaro.
Touchdown.

866
00:45:52,583 --> 00:45:54,918
Going deep for Bobby Johnson.

867
00:45:55,002 --> 00:45:58,088
Phil McConkey now.
McConkey head over heels.

868
00:45:58,172 --> 00:46:00,758
[commentator 2] He's going in,
standing up, and this one's history.

869
00:46:00,841 --> 00:46:02,843
[somber music playing]

870
00:46:10,392 --> 00:46:15,481
[Elway] It was hard to put a finger on,
you know, why we didn't win that game.

871
00:46:15,981 --> 00:46:18,317
[reporter 1] The Broncos had
their party yesterday.

872
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,612
About 120,000 fans
lining the streets of Denver,

873
00:46:21,695 --> 00:46:24,114
cheering them on even if they did lose.

874
00:46:24,198 --> 00:46:26,617
They figured there always is next year.

875
00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:28,577
[energetic music playing]

876
00:46:30,078 --> 00:46:35,209
[commentator] And Denver's Broncos will go
to the Super Bowl for the second year,

877
00:46:35,292 --> 00:46:37,669
led by John Elway.

878
00:46:37,753 --> 00:46:40,339
[Elway] Coming back in '87
and being named the MVP,

879
00:46:40,422 --> 00:46:42,382
you know,
it gave me that much more confidence.

880
00:46:42,466 --> 00:46:44,676
[reporter 2] The Denver Broncos are
champions of the AFC

881
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,303
for the second time in a row.

882
00:46:46,386 --> 00:46:49,640
They're favored to win the Super Bowl
for the first time in their history.

883
00:46:49,723 --> 00:46:52,351
I think the Denver Broncos
are gonna win this one big.

884
00:46:52,434 --> 00:46:55,062
[reporter 3] How much
of the disappointment is still there?

885
00:46:55,145 --> 00:46:57,648
A lot of it.
That feeling's still fresh in our minds,

886
00:46:57,731 --> 00:47:00,734
so we're looking at this game
as a must-win situation.

887
00:47:02,110 --> 00:47:04,321
[commentator 1] John Elway is on
one heck of a roll.

888
00:47:04,404 --> 00:47:06,740
Maybe the best we've ever seen
at that position.

889
00:47:06,824 --> 00:47:09,535
[commentator 2] Bronco fans hoping
the third time is the charm

890
00:47:09,618 --> 00:47:12,871
for their favorites,
who have never won a Super Bowl game.

891
00:47:12,955 --> 00:47:15,082
But then they've never been
favored before either.

892
00:47:15,165 --> 00:47:18,085
And the Bronco fans expect
John Elway to bring the…

893
00:47:18,168 --> 00:47:19,419
[stumbles over words]

894
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,130
Let's try take two. Okay.

895
00:47:25,384 --> 00:47:27,886
Good afternoon from
Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego.

896
00:47:28,929 --> 00:47:31,640
[commentator 3] Out of the shotgun,
which is their basic formation.

897
00:47:31,723 --> 00:47:34,393
And Elway going for the bomb
right at the outset.

898
00:47:34,476 --> 00:47:37,354
Throw's caught by Nattiel! Touchdown!

899
00:47:37,437 --> 00:47:39,606
[fans cheering, screaming]

900
00:47:40,399 --> 00:47:42,734
[commentator 4] Well,
the Redskins are stunned.

901
00:47:42,818 --> 00:47:45,404
At the end of the first quarter,
we're up 10-0.

902
00:47:45,487 --> 00:47:47,322
And then 19 plays later…

903
00:47:47,406 --> 00:47:49,992
[commentator 5] Four touchdowns
in one quarter.

904
00:47:50,075 --> 00:47:51,702
A new Super Bowl record!

905
00:47:52,369 --> 00:47:54,079
[Elway] …we're down 35-10.

906
00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:57,875
Red 28! Red 28! Hut!

907
00:48:00,752 --> 00:48:02,462
[menacing music stab]

908
00:48:02,546 --> 00:48:03,839
[Kubiak] Yeah, I don't know.

909
00:48:03,922 --> 00:48:05,299
[somber music playing]

910
00:48:05,382 --> 00:48:06,758
[Kubiak] It's a game of momentum.

911
00:48:06,842 --> 00:48:09,636
If it gets flying one way bad,
it's really hard to get it back.

912
00:48:10,846 --> 00:48:14,224
[commentator 3] Elway is 5 of his last 24.

913
00:48:14,308 --> 00:48:16,768
[commentator 6] We're talking about
things that haven't happened

914
00:48:16,852 --> 00:48:18,687
since John Elway was a rookie.

915
00:48:20,856 --> 00:48:23,400
[Kubiak] And then we get beat 42-10.

916
00:48:23,483 --> 00:48:27,613
[commentator 7] Well,
if last year was bad, this baby is awful.

917
00:48:28,572 --> 00:48:32,868
[reporter] In San Diego, Bronco fans heard
the fat lady singing at halftime.

918
00:48:33,368 --> 00:48:36,872
And in Denver today, the mood was
as gray as the sky over the city.

919
00:48:36,955 --> 00:48:40,709
For a town that's never been number one
in anything but carbon monoxide levels,

920
00:48:40,792 --> 00:48:44,588
the Broncos' second Super Bowl loss
in a row was doubly depressing.

921
00:48:44,671 --> 00:48:45,797
Next year, no.

922
00:48:46,298 --> 00:48:48,300
[uneasy music playing]

923
00:48:49,051 --> 00:48:50,802
[Shanahan] John took it personally.

924
00:48:51,762 --> 00:48:54,389
He had one goal
He had to win the Super Bowl.

925
00:48:55,349 --> 00:48:57,351
[commentator] John Elway
has done it again.

926
00:48:57,434 --> 00:48:59,811
Three times in four years.

927
00:48:59,895 --> 00:49:03,482
The Denver Broncos, best of the AFC.

928
00:49:04,107 --> 00:49:06,526
[younger Elway] The team from the NFC
is gonna be awful tough.

929
00:49:06,610 --> 00:49:08,654
We're gonna have to play
our best football to win.

930
00:49:08,737 --> 00:49:10,906
Thank you. Congratulations.
Good luck in the Super Bowl.

931
00:49:10,989 --> 00:49:11,823
Thank you, O.J.

932
00:49:12,324 --> 00:49:16,912
Broncos fans didn't want
the team to go back to the Super Bowl,

933
00:49:16,995 --> 00:49:20,123
because they didn't want to face
any more embarrassment.

934
00:49:20,207 --> 00:49:23,418
You know, John, you and I have been
around this game a long time.

935
00:49:23,502 --> 00:49:27,130
I was just thinking this might be
the best football team I've ever seen.

936
00:49:27,214 --> 00:49:29,883
[John] This 49er team has everything.

937
00:49:29,967 --> 00:49:31,718
-Gonna be a blowout.
-A total blowout.

938
00:49:31,802 --> 00:49:33,804
It's gonna be an ugly game,
but it'll be fun anyway.

939
00:49:33,887 --> 00:49:37,140
[Antonopulos] You could tell
the pressure was so much on him.

940
00:49:37,808 --> 00:49:39,685
Just all he could think about.

941
00:49:40,268 --> 00:49:42,646
And I'm looking. This is not good.

942
00:49:42,729 --> 00:49:44,022
That's not John.

943
00:49:44,106 --> 00:49:46,024
[younger Elway] We know
we're the best team.

944
00:49:46,525 --> 00:49:49,236
Let's go out and prove it today.
We've gotta play hard.

945
00:49:49,319 --> 00:49:51,196
-Let's go out and kick some…
-[players cheer]

946
00:49:55,534 --> 00:49:57,160
[commentator 1] Montana looked to Rathman.

947
00:49:57,244 --> 00:50:00,539
Hits Rice. Rice scores for San Francisco.

948
00:50:00,622 --> 00:50:03,417
Montana, quickly. Brent Jones.

949
00:50:04,042 --> 00:50:05,252
49er touchdown.

950
00:50:06,169 --> 00:50:09,214
Montana going up top to Rice. Touchdown.

951
00:50:10,590 --> 00:50:12,968
[Elway] They were
a much better football team than we were.

952
00:50:13,468 --> 00:50:16,346
Some days you get out there,
and you just feel it, and…

953
00:50:16,430 --> 00:50:18,348
and some days, it's a struggle.

954
00:50:19,516 --> 00:50:23,729
[commentator 2] Hey, this has to be
the worst three quarters of football

955
00:50:23,812 --> 00:50:26,314
John Elway can remember in his life.

956
00:50:26,398 --> 00:50:28,859
[Montana] Unfortunately for him,
it was the Super Bowl.

957
00:50:28,942 --> 00:50:31,486
But you don't wish
those kind of days for anyone.

958
00:50:31,987 --> 00:50:36,450
[Elway] Especially when we got behind,
I pressed and made some bad decisions

959
00:50:36,533 --> 00:50:39,828
and threw some interceptions
that made the outcome even worse.

960
00:50:39,911 --> 00:50:41,913
[crowd groans]

961
00:50:48,211 --> 00:50:51,131
[commentator 2]
John Elway is gonna take the heat.

962
00:50:51,214 --> 00:50:53,633
This is his third loss in a Super Bowl.

963
00:50:53,717 --> 00:50:57,929
But as he said, he would rather
be there and take a swing at it.

964
00:50:58,013 --> 00:51:01,600
He also said before he's ever gonna be
considered a great quarterback,

965
00:51:01,683 --> 00:51:04,811
he knows that he has to win
one of these things.

966
00:51:14,404 --> 00:51:17,199
[Janet] It didn't matter
how well he played or didn't play.

967
00:51:17,282 --> 00:51:20,786
It just was we lost.

968
00:51:20,869 --> 00:51:24,873
And we lost again, and we lost again.

969
00:51:24,956 --> 00:51:29,169
[commentator] Elway takes the snap
and runs it in for a touchdown!

970
00:51:29,252 --> 00:51:31,797
Thanks to Elway's patented
last-second magic,

971
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,007
the final score of Super Bowl XXX,

972
00:51:34,091 --> 00:51:37,010
Denver 7, San Francisco 56.

973
00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:37,928
[Homer] Woo-hoo!

974
00:51:38,011 --> 00:51:40,013
[somber music playing]

975
00:51:41,306 --> 00:51:44,017
[Elway] The criticism that comes along
with losing Super Bowls,

976
00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:46,228
especially the way that we lost 'em,

977
00:51:46,311 --> 00:51:49,356
what came out of that was,
"Well, Elway can't win the big one."

978
00:51:49,439 --> 00:51:52,984
There's a great deal of pressure on him,
Brent, to get the monkey off his back.

979
00:51:54,194 --> 00:51:56,905
Before he'll be recognized
as one of the great ones,

980
00:51:56,988 --> 00:51:59,991
with Terry and all the people
that have been involved in the Super Bowl,

981
00:52:00,075 --> 00:52:01,409
he's gonna have to win one.

982
00:52:01,952 --> 00:52:05,288
You've got to become
emotionally and mentally stronger.

983
00:52:05,372 --> 00:52:08,834
You can't let anyone know
that you have a kink in your armor.

984
00:52:08,917 --> 00:52:11,628
I'm not one of those guys
that likes to cause controversy,

985
00:52:11,711 --> 00:52:13,880
and he is.
And for that, I have no respect for him.

986
00:52:13,964 --> 00:52:16,967
His reply was,
"Stick it in your ear," was it, huh?

987
00:52:17,050 --> 00:52:19,177
What am I gonna… apolog…
I'm not gonna do that.

988
00:52:19,261 --> 00:52:21,847
Then I would be admitting I was wrong.

989
00:52:22,347 --> 00:52:27,185
Depending on whether he won or lost,
there was definitely, like, a mood shift.

990
00:52:27,269 --> 00:52:30,939
And we could read it,
and we would act accordingly.

991
00:52:32,065 --> 00:52:34,109
It definitely dictated our house

992
00:52:34,192 --> 00:52:37,445
and, like, the heaviness
that could be there.

993
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,284
You could see him sitting there
on the couch and just, like, rerunning it

994
00:52:42,367 --> 00:52:45,787
and thinking about all the things
he could have done differently.

995
00:52:46,830 --> 00:52:52,085
There was no passing of the blame
to anyone else other than himself.

996
00:52:52,169 --> 00:52:53,920
[Elway] The frustration level grew.

997
00:52:54,004 --> 00:52:57,799
I think not only with us as a team,
me as a player,

998
00:52:57,883 --> 00:52:59,759
but really Colorado as a whole.

999
00:52:59,843 --> 00:53:01,428
Fuck you!

1000
00:53:01,511 --> 00:53:02,762
[boos]

1001
00:53:03,263 --> 00:53:05,140
Around, like, second, third grade,

1002
00:53:05,223 --> 00:53:08,602
you really start to pick up on
the gravity of the situation.

1003
00:53:09,102 --> 00:53:10,437
[Elway] We got death threats.

1004
00:53:10,979 --> 00:53:13,440
There was times
we had to have police patrol the house

1005
00:53:13,523 --> 00:53:15,817
a little bit more
than they have in the past.

1006
00:53:17,319 --> 00:53:21,406
[reporter] Off the field, the Denver media
probed into Elway's personal life.

1007
00:53:21,489 --> 00:53:24,618
Not since his rookie season
has John been under such scrutiny.

1008
00:53:25,410 --> 00:53:28,580
[Janet] There wasn't that much else
going on in Denver.

1009
00:53:28,663 --> 00:53:32,500
And so all the focus
and the media and everything was on John.

1010
00:53:33,460 --> 00:53:35,420
[Elway] Sometimes, you want some privacy.

1011
00:53:35,503 --> 00:53:38,298
By that time in the '90s,
we had four kids.

1012
00:53:38,381 --> 00:53:40,342
I got a lot more protective.

1013
00:53:40,425 --> 00:53:43,595
I wanted to have my kids live
a normal life as they possibly could.

1014
00:53:45,055 --> 00:53:46,473
-Good shot.
-Nice!

1015
00:53:46,556 --> 00:53:47,849
[bell ringing]

1016
00:53:48,433 --> 00:53:50,018
-Who won?
-Dad!

1017
00:53:50,101 --> 00:53:52,520
[Jack Jr.] Yeah! Can I have this?

1018
00:53:53,021 --> 00:53:55,148
Me and you! Me and you! Me and you!

1019
00:53:55,232 --> 00:53:56,608
-Huh?
-Me and you.

1020
00:53:57,275 --> 00:54:00,487
We were just trying
to blend in and be a normal kid.

1021
00:54:00,570 --> 00:54:03,240
I think that's what we were all missing
in our lives,

1022
00:54:03,323 --> 00:54:05,367
is that we never had the anonymity.

1023
00:54:05,867 --> 00:54:08,620
[Janet] It was very hard to go anywhere.

1024
00:54:08,703 --> 00:54:12,832
I needed to get used to the idea
that this… this comes with the territory.

1025
00:54:12,916 --> 00:54:14,209
-Huh?
-Good luck!

1026
00:54:14,292 --> 00:54:15,293
Thank you.

1027
00:54:16,253 --> 00:54:19,923
I've always believed that, you know,
it takes just as long to be a nice guy

1028
00:54:20,006 --> 00:54:22,884
as it does to be an asshole.
And so I chose to be a nice guy,

1029
00:54:22,968 --> 00:54:26,221
and I think that was at the sacrifice
to my kids sometimes.

1030
00:54:27,347 --> 00:54:31,017
For so long, it felt like, you know,
you're playing the good guy all the time.

1031
00:54:31,101 --> 00:54:34,562
You know, sometimes I wanted to be
a bad guy in a Western.

1032
00:54:35,313 --> 00:54:37,983
I wanted to be able
to really just be a bad guy

1033
00:54:38,066 --> 00:54:41,236
and, you know, end up getting shot
in the end of the… the end of the movie.

1034
00:54:41,319 --> 00:54:42,862
[music fades]

1035
00:54:44,406 --> 00:54:47,826
My relationship with Dan,
it was choppy, to say the least.

1036
00:54:48,410 --> 00:54:51,246
I was frustrated with the offense,
what we're doing.

1037
00:54:51,746 --> 00:54:55,959
And so I think that frustration level
finally, uh, came out.

1038
00:54:56,042 --> 00:54:58,044
[uneasy music playing]

1039
00:54:59,629 --> 00:55:01,589
Got a little bit too open
with Dick Connor.

1040
00:55:01,673 --> 00:55:04,718
He was a great columnist
in Denver for a long, long time.

1041
00:55:04,801 --> 00:55:08,555
I didn't think it would have the impact
or come out as hard as it did.

1042
00:55:08,638 --> 00:55:10,432
I've had so many lows this year.

1043
00:55:10,515 --> 00:55:13,768
This week has been
probably a… an all-time low.

1044
00:55:13,852 --> 00:55:16,104
You know, it hurts to… to read something

1045
00:55:16,187 --> 00:55:19,774
that you have no idea
that there is a problem.

1046
00:55:19,858 --> 00:55:23,236
You know, certainly, if there was
a problem, I wish John had talked to me.

1047
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:24,988
You know, I've been to Dan's office before

1048
00:55:25,071 --> 00:55:27,073
and walked out
and thought everything was good,

1049
00:55:27,157 --> 00:55:29,159
and nothing's… nothing's really changed.

1050
00:55:29,242 --> 00:55:32,954
So, uh, you know, this was another way
to hopefully get his ear a little bit

1051
00:55:33,038 --> 00:55:34,247
and have him listen to me.

1052
00:55:35,081 --> 00:55:38,835
[reporter] One stabilizing force
in Elway's season was Mike Shanahan.

1053
00:55:40,128 --> 00:55:44,466
[Elway] Other than my dad, Mike Shanahan
is by far the best coach I've ever had,

1054
00:55:44,549 --> 00:55:47,635
which I think was something
that Dan didn't like.

1055
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:49,804
I'm in the weight room
with John one morning

1056
00:55:49,888 --> 00:55:51,514
and I get a call to Dan's office,

1057
00:55:51,598 --> 00:55:54,392
and I go to his office,
and he throws a newspaper at me.

1058
00:55:55,518 --> 00:55:57,145
I mean, he was pissed.

1059
00:55:57,228 --> 00:56:00,190
He said, "How in the hell
did this get in the newspaper?"

1060
00:56:00,273 --> 00:56:04,569
I said, "Dan, I've been trying
to make this relationship work

1061
00:56:04,652 --> 00:56:06,821
over the last,
you know, six, seven years."

1062
00:56:06,905 --> 00:56:09,866
I said, "I'm gonna go downstairs.
I'm gonna get John."

1063
00:56:09,949 --> 00:56:12,786
So as I came in there, I said,

1064
00:56:12,869 --> 00:56:14,954
"John, would you tell Dan
why you don't like him?"

1065
00:56:15,038 --> 00:56:17,707
"And, Dan, would you tell John
why you don't like him?"

1066
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:20,001
John looks over, and he said,

1067
00:56:20,085 --> 00:56:23,463
"I hate you more
than any person in this world."

1068
00:56:23,546 --> 00:56:24,964
"And this is why."

1069
00:56:25,048 --> 00:56:28,093
They both went for 15 minutes,
and I thought it was great.

1070
00:56:31,096 --> 00:56:33,556
-[music fades]
-[Elway] Dan ended up firing Mike.

1071
00:56:34,307 --> 00:56:38,478
You know, I felt responsible for that
because Mike had nothing to do with it.

1072
00:56:39,187 --> 00:56:42,982
Thirty years later, you know,
that's probably one thing that I regret.

1073
00:56:44,776 --> 00:56:47,987
[Schefter] The relationship between them
became strained enough

1074
00:56:48,071 --> 00:56:51,324
that the Denver Broncos had a deal

1075
00:56:51,408 --> 00:56:54,577
to send John Elway
to the Washington Redskins.

1076
00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:56,162
[downbeat music stab]

1077
00:56:56,663 --> 00:56:59,165
And Pat Bowlen put the kibosh on that.

1078
00:56:59,249 --> 00:57:03,336
[Elway] When that came up, the possibility
that I might have to go somewhere else,

1079
00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:06,297
it was scary to me 'cause I'd
never wanted to play for anybody else.

1080
00:57:07,507 --> 00:57:10,885
The stability
of being in Denver for my kids,

1081
00:57:10,969 --> 00:57:13,555
living in one spot, was important to me.

1082
00:57:14,764 --> 00:57:18,435
That opened my eyes
to understand exactly where Dan was.

1083
00:57:18,518 --> 00:57:20,520
[uneasy music playing]

1084
00:57:24,691 --> 00:57:27,944
The frustration level kept growing
and growing and growing.

1085
00:57:29,696 --> 00:57:30,613
Fuck!

1086
00:57:30,697 --> 00:57:31,656
Dang it!

1087
00:57:31,739 --> 00:57:33,283
That went out right here, lookit!

1088
00:57:33,366 --> 00:57:37,579
That's what it is, right there!
You're so full of bullshit!

1089
00:57:38,163 --> 00:57:40,999
I knew, you know,
this is just a matter of time.

1090
00:57:41,082 --> 00:57:43,084
[melancholic music playing]

1091
00:57:50,508 --> 00:57:52,135
[Bowlen] Let's understand
right off the bat

1092
00:57:52,218 --> 00:57:53,595
that Dan was a great coach.

1093
00:57:54,387 --> 00:57:56,723
[younger Bowlen] I plan to take
a lot more active role.

1094
00:57:56,806 --> 00:57:57,974
That's what I wanna do.

1095
00:57:58,057 --> 00:58:01,352
And I think when you think about that,

1096
00:58:01,853 --> 00:58:06,357
if I would've, uh, agreed
to renew Dan's contract a year from now,

1097
00:58:06,441 --> 00:58:10,528
we probably both would've been
miserable and at each other's throats.

1098
00:58:11,154 --> 00:58:13,198
-Did John Elway have any influence?
-None.

1099
00:58:13,281 --> 00:58:15,200
…my bicep. I can feel where it's sore…

1100
00:58:15,283 --> 00:58:17,368
[younger Bowlen] John's a player.
He's not a coach.

1101
00:58:17,452 --> 00:58:20,413
Players don't make decisions
on who coaches.

1102
00:58:20,497 --> 00:58:23,750
I gotta watch out for you guys.
Sneak on up with that thing.

1103
00:58:26,419 --> 00:58:30,924
[Schefter] Pat chose John over Dan,
no matter what they say or feel.

1104
00:58:31,007 --> 00:58:36,095
Pat Bowlen, in the end,
decided to ride it out with John Elway

1105
00:58:36,179 --> 00:58:37,180
over Dan Reeves.

1106
00:58:38,014 --> 00:58:42,519
[Elway] I was happy that Mr. Bowlen made
that decision to try to start anew.

1107
00:58:42,602 --> 00:58:45,897
I was excited about seeing
if we could turn things around

1108
00:58:45,980 --> 00:58:47,607
with a new system and new coach.

1109
00:58:49,442 --> 00:58:51,903
Obviously, my first choice was…
was Mike Shanahan.

1110
00:58:51,986 --> 00:58:54,489
-[camera shutters clicking]
-Mike agreed to come back.

1111
00:58:55,365 --> 00:58:57,367
The best thing that happened to my career.

1112
00:58:57,450 --> 00:58:59,452
[energetic music playing]

1113
00:59:00,870 --> 00:59:03,206
[Engel] John finally felt like,
"I got a voice,

1114
00:59:03,289 --> 00:59:06,626
and I got the guy I want
with the knowledge that he has."

1115
00:59:06,709 --> 00:59:07,710
"And we're gonna win."

1116
00:59:08,503 --> 00:59:11,756
[Elway] When Mike came back,
we had a really good football team.

1117
00:59:11,839 --> 00:59:14,008
I said, "John, I'm gonna give you
a running game."

1118
00:59:14,092 --> 00:59:15,885
"You're getting too old.
You can't take shots."

1119
00:59:15,969 --> 00:59:18,263
"You can't keep on doing that.
You're not gonna survive."

1120
00:59:18,346 --> 00:59:21,349
Mike did a great job
of convincing John was,

1121
00:59:21,432 --> 00:59:25,770
"You've had too much on your plate."
John embraced his role and bought into it.

1122
00:59:25,853 --> 00:59:29,524
[Elway] But the most important thing was
Mike was an aggressive play caller.

1123
00:59:29,607 --> 00:59:31,401
I loved the fact that he attacked.

1124
00:59:31,484 --> 00:59:33,611
And I said, "I'm game with anything."

1125
00:59:33,695 --> 00:59:35,697
[music intensifies]

1126
00:59:39,242 --> 00:59:42,078
To have a guy like
Terrell Davis come into my life,

1127
00:59:42,161 --> 00:59:44,581
that made my job so much easier.

1128
00:59:45,081 --> 00:59:48,167
A guy that I could lean on
instead of getting leaned on.

1129
00:59:48,751 --> 00:59:50,587
Not a better player, in my opinion,

1130
00:59:50,670 --> 00:59:53,214
that's ever played
the running back position than Terrell.

1131
00:59:55,216 --> 00:59:57,468
[man] Every headline,
everybody talked about it.

1132
00:59:57,552 --> 01:00:00,805
It was, "John Elway
has not won a Super Bowl."

1133
01:00:00,888 --> 01:00:02,682
As teammates, you feel like…

1134
01:00:02,765 --> 01:00:05,310
like, you want to help him
get his first Super Bowl.

1135
01:00:05,393 --> 01:00:06,519
So that was our goal.

1136
01:00:06,603 --> 01:00:09,105
[commentator 1] Here comes the blitz.
He steps away from it

1137
01:00:09,188 --> 01:00:10,440
and lets the pass go long.

1138
01:00:10,523 --> 01:00:12,859
-[commentator 2] Are you kidding?
-[commentator 1] Touchdown!

1139
01:00:12,942 --> 01:00:15,528
Shannon Sharpe makes the catch!

1140
01:00:15,612 --> 01:00:18,239
Elway was submerged, jumps up,

1141
01:00:18,323 --> 01:00:22,201
and throws a strike to Shannon Sharpe
at the 4-yard line.

1142
01:00:22,285 --> 01:00:24,329
People ask me,
"Who's your favorite receiver?"

1143
01:00:24,412 --> 01:00:26,247
I always say, "The open one."

1144
01:00:26,331 --> 01:00:28,583
And then second, I say, "Shannon Sharpe."

1145
01:00:28,666 --> 01:00:30,168
Hey!

1146
01:00:30,668 --> 01:00:31,794
Pittsburgh!

1147
01:00:31,878 --> 01:00:33,755
[Elway] Shannon was a leader
in that locker room

1148
01:00:33,838 --> 01:00:35,173
as far as keeping things light.

1149
01:00:35,256 --> 01:00:39,427
I think that was one thing that brought
the bond of that football team together.

1150
01:00:39,510 --> 01:00:40,970
Come on, D. Come on, D.

1151
01:00:41,054 --> 01:00:43,514
Make a play for us here. Come on, baby.

1152
01:00:43,598 --> 01:00:46,517
Never say never. Never say never.

1153
01:00:46,601 --> 01:00:48,519
Whatever we were doing, he did.

1154
01:00:48,603 --> 01:00:49,437
Wow!

1155
01:00:49,937 --> 01:00:52,649
[Sharpe] If we're rolling dice,
"What are you guys playing?"

1156
01:00:52,732 --> 01:00:53,941
He'd roll dice with us.

1157
01:00:54,025 --> 01:00:56,069
If we're playing cards,
he's playing cards.

1158
01:00:56,653 --> 01:00:59,822
I think that's why guys would be willing
to run through a wall for him.

1159
01:00:59,906 --> 01:01:01,282
He didn't set himself apart.

1160
01:01:02,450 --> 01:01:04,577
[Elway] My dad, he always told me,

1161
01:01:04,661 --> 01:01:07,330
"Being on a team where
everybody's busting their tail

1162
01:01:07,413 --> 01:01:09,290
to go and win games."

1163
01:01:09,374 --> 01:01:11,918
It was about taking care of the people
that take care of you.

1164
01:01:12,001 --> 01:01:14,003
[music turns dramatic]

1165
01:01:15,046 --> 01:01:15,963
[yelling indistinctly]

1166
01:01:16,047 --> 01:01:19,342
I'm calling the president.
President, we need the National Guard.

1167
01:01:19,425 --> 01:01:23,012
We need as many men as you can spare
'cause we are killing the Patriots.

1168
01:01:23,096 --> 01:01:24,972
You're doing everything out of the book.

1169
01:01:25,056 --> 01:01:28,267
-[player 1] We still getting--
-But… and we're what? 11-1.

1170
01:01:28,351 --> 01:01:29,310
[player 2] 11-1!

1171
01:01:29,394 --> 01:01:31,396
[inspirational music playing]

1172
01:01:33,314 --> 01:01:35,316
[Elway] In '96, we were 13-3.

1173
01:01:35,900 --> 01:01:38,111
We had the home-field advantage
wrapped up.

1174
01:01:38,695 --> 01:01:41,698
Jacksonville was a relatively new team.

1175
01:01:43,574 --> 01:01:45,451
That was my 14th year.

1176
01:01:45,535 --> 01:01:48,371
I was really excited
to get back to the Super Bowl.

1177
01:01:57,630 --> 01:01:59,757
-[bell tolls]
-[music fades]

1178
01:01:59,841 --> 01:02:01,175
[muted]

1179
01:02:01,259 --> 01:02:04,762
[Davis] We weren't even close to
who we were supposed to be in that game.

1180
01:02:04,846 --> 01:02:06,848
[ominous music playing]

1181
01:02:07,515 --> 01:02:09,517
[crowd groans]

1182
01:02:15,606 --> 01:02:17,442
[Elway] They came in here and upset us.

1183
01:02:24,615 --> 01:02:27,326
We end up getting beat 30-27.

1184
01:02:28,661 --> 01:02:30,663
[crowd booing]

1185
01:02:37,837 --> 01:02:39,839
[music fades]

1186
01:02:42,049 --> 01:02:46,345
[Engel] John was very angry, you know,
not like I had seen him before.

1187
01:02:46,846 --> 01:02:48,598
That noose was tightening.

1188
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,018
[Elway] I'm sure there was
some crying going on that night,

1189
01:02:52,101 --> 01:02:55,646
and the kids saw me,
and because of the expectations,

1190
01:02:55,730 --> 01:02:58,900
that was probably
the most devastating loss I'd ever faced.

1191
01:02:58,983 --> 01:03:00,985
[dramatic music playing]

1192
01:03:05,823 --> 01:03:09,160
[Elway] When we came back in '97,
we were really on a revenge tour.

1193
01:03:09,243 --> 01:03:11,162
Oh yeah!

1194
01:03:11,245 --> 01:03:14,499
We had something to prove,
but the proof was not for the other team.

1195
01:03:14,582 --> 01:03:16,709
-It was in each other.
-[Elway] Red 98, hut!

1196
01:03:16,793 --> 01:03:21,088
[Sharpe] John knew this was gonna be
his last, best chance.

1197
01:03:21,172 --> 01:03:23,716
It was either gonna be now or never.

1198
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:25,468
[commentator] Handoff. Davis, right side.

1199
01:03:25,551 --> 01:03:26,969
Davis is at the 5, touchdown!

1200
01:03:27,637 --> 01:03:29,680
Standing up goes Terrell Davis

1201
01:03:29,764 --> 01:03:32,517
for the Broncos' third touchdown
of the first half.

1202
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:33,851
[player] Great job, boy!

1203
01:03:33,935 --> 01:03:36,187
I love this, baby. I love it.
Revenge is so sweet.

1204
01:03:36,270 --> 01:03:39,565
[Elway] Huddle up!
Red right, F short, 18 5, all right.

1205
01:03:39,649 --> 01:03:42,068
-Set hut!
-[commentator] Hand off. Davis.

1206
01:03:42,151 --> 01:03:44,278
Terrell squares his shoulders
into the end zone!

1207
01:03:44,362 --> 01:03:45,238
Touchdown, Denver!

1208
01:03:45,321 --> 01:03:46,614
Yeah!

1209
01:03:46,697 --> 01:03:47,865
[cheering]

1210
01:03:48,825 --> 01:03:51,744
[commentator] And they are stunned
here at Arrowhead Stadium.

1211
01:03:53,371 --> 01:03:56,040
Two minutes left. Third-and-6 for Denver

1212
01:03:56,123 --> 01:03:59,460
at the Bronco 15-yard line.
They lead 24-21.

1213
01:03:59,544 --> 01:04:01,712
This place is going nuts.

1214
01:04:02,839 --> 01:04:04,382
Snap is good. Five-man rush.

1215
01:04:04,465 --> 01:04:06,259
John throws. Pass caught!

1216
01:04:06,342 --> 01:04:09,011
First down on the 30-yard line.
Shannon Sharpe!

1217
01:04:09,095 --> 01:04:11,097
Biggest first down of the year!

1218
01:04:11,180 --> 01:04:13,391
Elway to Sharpe for 18 yards!

1219
01:04:13,474 --> 01:04:14,809
Oh, baby!

1220
01:04:15,810 --> 01:04:17,895
Denver goes to the Super Bowl!

1221
01:04:17,979 --> 01:04:20,314
They are the AFC champions!

1222
01:04:20,398 --> 01:04:22,191
[music fades]

1223
01:04:22,275 --> 01:04:23,943
[Elway] I called my mom from the plane

1224
01:04:24,026 --> 01:04:27,113
and said, "Mom, can you believe
we get to go back to the Super Bowl?"

1225
01:04:27,196 --> 01:04:30,575
And there's a long silence,
and finally she says,

1226
01:04:30,658 --> 01:04:33,286
"Do we really have to go back
to the Super Bowl?" [chuckles]

1227
01:04:33,786 --> 01:04:35,788
[tense music playing]

1228
01:04:36,914 --> 01:04:38,291
[Jessica] I was terrified.

1229
01:04:38,374 --> 01:04:43,004
The media was saying the Broncos had
no chance against the Packers.

1230
01:04:43,087 --> 01:04:46,173
I'm also worried about my dad,
of just like, "Is he hearing this?"

1231
01:04:46,257 --> 01:04:50,052
"Does he realize that, like,
he is not supposed to win this game?"

1232
01:04:50,136 --> 01:04:52,138
Green Bay 24, Denver 17.

1233
01:04:52,221 --> 01:04:53,764
-Green Bay.
-Green Bay.

1234
01:04:53,848 --> 01:04:55,474
-Green Bay.
-Green Bay's gonna win.

1235
01:04:55,558 --> 01:04:56,726
Green Bay's gonna win.

1236
01:04:56,809 --> 01:04:58,436
Hi, I'm Joe Montana.

1237
01:04:58,519 --> 01:05:01,063
I don't know the score,
but I'm taking Green Bay.

1238
01:05:01,147 --> 01:05:03,190
Do you kind of view, at 37 years of age,

1239
01:05:03,274 --> 01:05:05,276
"Maybe this is my last chance
at the Super Bowl"?

1240
01:05:05,359 --> 01:05:07,403
[reporter 1] Will it be hard
to go to the Hall of Fame

1241
01:05:07,486 --> 01:05:08,988
if you don't win the Super Bowl?

1242
01:05:09,071 --> 01:05:11,532
[reporter 2] How does it make you feel
when you hear people say,

1243
01:05:11,616 --> 01:05:12,950
"He can't win the big one"?

1244
01:05:13,034 --> 01:05:15,369
[younger Elway] You heard that
for, you know, 14 years.

1245
01:05:15,453 --> 01:05:18,497
It's burning there all the time.
I think that that's what kept me going.

1246
01:05:24,587 --> 01:05:28,174
We understood what was at stake.
Green Bay were the defending champs.

1247
01:05:28,257 --> 01:05:31,427
They're back in the game.
They got the reigning MVP.

1248
01:05:31,510 --> 01:05:33,429
[commentator 1] Brett Favre,
league's best player,

1249
01:05:33,512 --> 01:05:35,723
three consecutive years,
never happened before,

1250
01:05:35,806 --> 01:05:37,600
against the sentimental favorite, Elway,

1251
01:05:37,683 --> 01:05:40,895
trying to undo those
three previous Super Bowl experiences.

1252
01:05:40,978 --> 01:05:42,855
We knew they were a great football team.

1253
01:05:43,689 --> 01:05:46,859
Their defense was ranked number one
in almost every area.

1254
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,779
We were going to run the ball
to win that game.

1255
01:05:50,947 --> 01:05:51,864
And he knew it.

1256
01:05:51,948 --> 01:05:54,408
He was like, "Whatever it takes."

1257
01:05:55,993 --> 01:05:59,580
[announcer] At quarterback,
from Stanford, number seven,

1258
01:05:59,664 --> 01:06:01,290
John Elway.

1259
01:06:08,714 --> 01:06:10,091
[player] Blue 58!

1260
01:06:11,676 --> 01:06:13,260
Blue 58, hut!

1261
01:06:14,220 --> 01:06:16,222
[suspenseful music playing]

1262
01:06:28,401 --> 01:06:31,362
[commentator 2] Brett, to the end zone.
Back there is Antonio Freeman.

1263
01:06:31,445 --> 01:06:32,905
Touchdown, Packers!

1264
01:06:32,989 --> 01:06:36,450
On an absolutely gorgeous throw
by Brett Favre.

1265
01:06:36,534 --> 01:06:37,451
[grunts]

1266
01:06:38,661 --> 01:06:40,162
[Elway] Terrell had a tremendous game.

1267
01:06:40,246 --> 01:06:43,374
Offensive line just controlled
the line of scrimmage.

1268
01:06:44,333 --> 01:06:47,378
[commentator 2] Elway, handoff, Davis,
into the end zone, touchdown!

1269
01:06:47,878 --> 01:06:48,838
Yeah!

1270
01:06:49,922 --> 01:06:51,007
Yeah!

1271
01:06:54,385 --> 01:06:56,137
[Davis] I get kicked.

1272
01:06:57,888 --> 01:07:00,099
[music turns ominous]

1273
01:07:00,182 --> 01:07:02,268
[commentator 3] I think
Davis may be shaken up.

1274
01:07:02,351 --> 01:07:04,520
Terrell Davis is on both knees.

1275
01:07:04,603 --> 01:07:06,939
[Davis] All of a sudden,
my vision starts to go out.

1276
01:07:07,023 --> 01:07:10,651
And I'm thinking,
"Oh no, I'm about to get a migraine."

1277
01:07:10,735 --> 01:07:13,362
So when TD went down,
you know, I was concerned.

1278
01:07:14,363 --> 01:07:15,448
He's a little woozy.

1279
01:07:15,531 --> 01:07:18,701
He did struggle with migraines.
He just never had one during a game

1280
01:07:18,784 --> 01:07:19,618
that I remembered.

1281
01:07:19,702 --> 01:07:22,913
[commentator 2] This would be
costly for the Broncos.

1282
01:07:22,997 --> 01:07:24,999
He ain't gonna run it hard no more.
He's scared.

1283
01:07:25,082 --> 01:07:27,877
They out the game.
They're gonna take Davis out.

1284
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:30,212
-I can't see.
-[Shanahan] Okay, just do this.

1285
01:07:30,296 --> 01:07:33,716
Don't worry about seeing.
We're going to fake it to you to 15 lead.

1286
01:07:33,799 --> 01:07:36,594
But if you're not in there,
they won't believe we're gonna run, okay?

1287
01:07:36,677 --> 01:07:37,803
[inspirational music playing]

1288
01:07:37,887 --> 01:07:40,848
I think we all felt like
we're not letting up.

1289
01:07:40,931 --> 01:07:43,350
That showed you
what kind of guy Terrell Davis is.

1290
01:07:43,434 --> 01:07:47,021
He went in there. I said,
"TD, just go forward. I'll adjust to you."

1291
01:07:47,104 --> 01:07:49,732
[younger Elway] Let's go red left,
F short, 19, Bob King. On it.

1292
01:07:50,232 --> 01:07:51,192
Set hut!

1293
01:07:52,485 --> 01:07:55,613
[commentator 2] Play fake, Davis.
Elway rolls right.

1294
01:07:55,696 --> 01:07:56,822
Come on, John, come on!

1295
01:07:56,906 --> 01:07:58,449
[commentator 2] He can run it in.

1296
01:07:58,532 --> 01:08:00,910
[music building]

1297
01:08:00,993 --> 01:08:03,162
-[music fades]
-[commentator 2] Vintage John Elway there.

1298
01:08:03,245 --> 01:08:06,665
And the 37-year-old
making it happen with his legs.

1299
01:08:07,249 --> 01:08:08,459
[Davis] Long halftime.

1300
01:08:08,542 --> 01:08:11,295
By the time we went back out, I could see.

1301
01:08:11,378 --> 01:08:13,464
We are going pedal to the metal.

1302
01:08:13,547 --> 01:08:15,633
We're gonna steamroll
the hell out of everybody.

1303
01:08:15,716 --> 01:08:17,718
[intriguing music playing]

1304
01:08:21,097 --> 01:08:24,642
[commentator 3] Super Bowl XXXII
is tied at 17.

1305
01:08:24,725 --> 01:08:27,478
We're in the third quarter
with three minutes remaining.

1306
01:08:31,690 --> 01:08:34,819
[Shanahan] It's third down, 6 and a half,
and we're on the 12-yard line,

1307
01:08:35,402 --> 01:08:38,239
and we're going against
one of the best red-zone defenses

1308
01:08:38,322 --> 01:08:39,698
in the National Football League.

1309
01:08:39,782 --> 01:08:42,535
John is gonna go crazy
when I call this play.

1310
01:08:42,618 --> 01:08:43,828
But I said, "I've gotta do it."

1311
01:08:43,911 --> 01:08:45,246
Okay, Point Slice.

1312
01:08:46,497 --> 01:08:49,458
-Go west, right slot. Point Slice.
-[player] Let's go.

1313
01:08:49,542 --> 01:08:50,793
This was a play that we put in

1314
01:08:50,876 --> 01:08:54,255
specifically for this game,
against this defense.

1315
01:08:54,338 --> 01:08:56,465
And I wasn't a big fan of the play.

1316
01:08:56,549 --> 01:08:59,093
John hated it. John hated the play.

1317
01:08:59,176 --> 01:09:01,178
[Sharpe] We run the play in practice.

1318
01:09:01,262 --> 01:09:03,889
And every time we ran that play
in practice, I caught the ball.

1319
01:09:03,973 --> 01:09:07,434
I said, "Mike, what happens
if we don't get that coverage?"

1320
01:09:07,518 --> 01:09:11,814
And he goes, "John, it's 100% of the time
in this situation."

1321
01:09:11,897 --> 01:09:14,483
-[Sharpe] Guess what happened?
-[stirring music playing]

1322
01:09:14,567 --> 01:09:16,193
[commentator 3] Eleventh play
of this drive

1323
01:09:16,277 --> 01:09:18,612
that started back at the Bronco 8.

1324
01:09:19,113 --> 01:09:21,282
Third-and-6. Elway, shotgun.

1325
01:09:21,365 --> 01:09:24,493
We called that play.
They don't run the coverage.

1326
01:09:25,119 --> 01:09:26,412
John goes and makes the play.

1327
01:09:27,872 --> 01:09:30,833
[Elway] I knew as soon as
I walked out and saw them lined up

1328
01:09:30,916 --> 01:09:33,085
that it was not the defense we wanted.

1329
01:09:33,919 --> 01:09:36,797
[Davis] As soon as I went
to put my hands up, say I was open,

1330
01:09:36,881 --> 01:09:38,966
John got flushed out of the pocket.

1331
01:09:40,301 --> 01:09:42,303
And as he's running, my mind was thinking,

1332
01:09:42,386 --> 01:09:45,264
"Go there so if anything happens,
you can jump on the football."

1333
01:09:45,347 --> 01:09:46,348
But I didn't.

1334
01:09:47,057 --> 01:09:49,185
I just stood there and watched him.

1335
01:09:51,187 --> 01:09:53,189
[rousing music playing]

1336
01:09:55,024 --> 01:09:57,109
Come on, John, come on. Come on!

1337
01:09:57,193 --> 01:09:58,819
[commentator 4] Inside the 10, head first.

1338
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:00,779
[music stops abruptly]

1339
01:10:00,863 --> 01:10:02,865
[silence]

1340
01:10:03,908 --> 01:10:06,869
[commentator 4] He dives
inside the 5-yard line!

1341
01:10:07,453 --> 01:10:09,830
[Davis] I saw
that he had got the first down.

1342
01:10:10,331 --> 01:10:12,041
Man, we all went crazy.

1343
01:10:12,124 --> 01:10:14,752
[commentator 5] Elway scrambling,
looking, running,

1344
01:10:14,835 --> 01:10:18,881
diving inside the five-yard line
for a first down.

1345
01:10:18,964 --> 01:10:21,050
Is he only 37?

1346
01:10:21,759 --> 01:10:23,260
[laughs]

1347
01:10:23,344 --> 01:10:25,471
[commentator 5] How important
is this football game?

1348
01:10:25,554 --> 01:10:28,474
How bad does John Elway wanna win
this football game?

1349
01:10:28,557 --> 01:10:31,644
You see that quarterbacks go down,
not Elway.

1350
01:10:32,603 --> 01:10:36,857
When he did that, it was like,
"Holy shit, we can't let this guy down."

1351
01:10:36,941 --> 01:10:39,652
-Goal line! Goal line!
-Goal line! Goal line!

1352
01:10:39,735 --> 01:10:42,446
[Kubiak] That football team was there
to win that thing for him.

1353
01:10:43,656 --> 01:10:46,367
TD, they all knew
how much it meant to John.

1354
01:10:48,327 --> 01:10:49,828
[commentator 5] Elway, Davis.

1355
01:10:51,914 --> 01:10:53,207
Davis to the end zone.

1356
01:10:53,707 --> 01:10:55,125
Touchdown, Denver!

1357
01:10:55,626 --> 01:10:56,460
Yes!

1358
01:10:56,543 --> 01:10:59,546
[commentator 5] That was a 93-yard drive.

1359
01:11:03,509 --> 01:11:05,177
[music stops abruptly]

1360
01:11:05,261 --> 01:11:07,263
[serene music playing]

1361
01:11:47,594 --> 01:11:51,515
[commentator 4] Thirty-eight years
without a championship in football

1362
01:11:51,598 --> 01:11:53,225
has come down to one play.

1363
01:11:53,309 --> 01:11:54,476
Fourth-and-6.

1364
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:56,687
-Thirty-two seconds to go.
-C'mon.

1365
01:11:57,229 --> 01:11:58,272
This is it.

1366
01:11:59,023 --> 01:11:59,857
C'mon!

1367
01:11:59,940 --> 01:12:01,775
[commentator 4] One play
to the championship.

1368
01:12:01,859 --> 01:12:04,987
[Favre] Let's go now, deep breath,
let's go. Blue 58, hut!

1369
01:12:08,324 --> 01:12:10,951
[commentator 4] Blitz is on.
Favre throws it!

1370
01:12:12,244 --> 01:12:13,537
Pass is gonna be

1371
01:12:14,580 --> 01:12:16,707
incomplete! Denver's gonna win it!

1372
01:12:16,790 --> 01:12:19,626
[heartwarming music playing]

1373
01:12:19,710 --> 01:12:22,171
[commentator 4] Oh, baby,
they're gonna win this thing!

1374
01:12:22,254 --> 01:12:23,797
Are you kidding me?

1375
01:12:25,090 --> 01:12:27,009
The Broncos have done it!

1376
01:12:27,092 --> 01:12:32,848
They have shocked everybody,
and they have won Super Bowl XXXII!

1377
01:12:44,943 --> 01:12:48,739
[Elway] I was able to let
every bit of emotion

1378
01:12:48,822 --> 01:12:51,867
I'd ever had stored up inside me…

1379
01:12:53,077 --> 01:12:55,829
To be able to let it go was, you know…

1380
01:13:05,255 --> 01:13:09,218
[Janet] So elated,
just couldn't believe it.

1381
01:13:09,301 --> 01:13:11,845
And the kids were there. It just…

1382
01:13:13,305 --> 01:13:15,307
Just incredible. Yeah.

1383
01:13:15,391 --> 01:13:20,312
It was just this thousand-pound weight off
of all of our shoulders.

1384
01:13:21,271 --> 01:13:23,565
[Jessica] Relief, complete relief.

1385
01:13:23,649 --> 01:13:27,569
Which I… Honestly, I think is
a better feeling than happiness.

1386
01:13:28,821 --> 01:13:31,031
This one's for John!

1387
01:13:31,115 --> 01:13:33,117
[crowd cheering]

1388
01:13:40,874 --> 01:13:44,628
You could definitely tell
he'd never been that happy before.

1389
01:13:47,297 --> 01:13:49,633
[chuckles] And that's…

1390
01:13:53,053 --> 01:13:54,972
[Shanahan] Jack, get your butt over here!

1391
01:13:56,890 --> 01:13:59,101
[Jack] My hand is shaking.
I'm proud of you.

1392
01:13:59,184 --> 01:14:00,602
I'm so damn proud of you.

1393
01:14:00,686 --> 01:14:03,605
-[present day Elway] Then to see my dad…
-[Jack] Damn skippy, you did it.

1394
01:14:03,689 --> 01:14:04,731
[younger Elway grunts]

1395
01:14:05,482 --> 01:14:06,608
[Jack] Finally did it.

1396
01:14:07,943 --> 01:14:09,611
…who was, uh…

1397
01:14:10,696 --> 01:14:13,907
as happy as, uh… as I was.

1398
01:14:15,701 --> 01:14:18,036
He's such a big deal, I might even buy it.

1399
01:14:19,371 --> 01:14:20,372
[player] Yo, sir!

1400
01:14:20,456 --> 01:14:22,875
[poignant music playing]

1401
01:14:22,958 --> 01:14:23,917
Ooh.

1402
01:14:25,335 --> 01:14:27,421
That brought back great memories.

1403
01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:35,053
[reporter] Bronco fans are
soaring with pride in the Mile High City.

1404
01:14:35,137 --> 01:14:38,098
More than a half million honored
the Super Bowl champions

1405
01:14:38,182 --> 01:14:39,975
with a parade through downtown Denver.

1406
01:14:40,058 --> 01:14:43,353
The Broncos upset the Green Bay Packers
31-24 Sunday night,

1407
01:14:43,437 --> 01:14:47,232
making John Elway
the oldest QB ever to win a Super Bowl.

1408
01:14:48,192 --> 01:14:49,985
[younger Elway] There's only so many times

1409
01:14:50,068 --> 01:14:52,988
you can get hit
right in the forehead with a fist.

1410
01:14:53,655 --> 01:14:56,158
But this time, we did the punching.

1411
01:14:56,241 --> 01:14:57,326
[crowd cheering]

1412
01:15:00,579 --> 01:15:01,663
[inaudible]

1413
01:15:01,747 --> 01:15:03,874
[Elway] I'm not sure
that you ever deserve something,

1414
01:15:04,750 --> 01:15:07,961
but I tell you what,
the 53 guys and coaches on this team,

1415
01:15:08,045 --> 01:15:10,464
we earned it as well as you. Thank you.

1416
01:15:10,547 --> 01:15:12,549
[crowd cheering]

1417
01:15:14,676 --> 01:15:16,762
[reporter] He says
he is considering retirement,

1418
01:15:16,845 --> 01:15:20,390
but first plans on savoring the moment,
at least for a little while.

1419
01:15:20,474 --> 01:15:24,436
He says he'll decide his future
after talking with family and teammates.

1420
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:27,981
[crowd chanting] One more year!
One more year! One more year!

1421
01:15:28,065 --> 01:15:30,442
-One more year! One more year!
-[music fades]

1422
01:15:30,526 --> 01:15:34,363
One more year!
One more year! One more year!

1423
01:15:35,822 --> 01:15:37,574
[man] I have to think,
sitting next to you,

1424
01:15:37,658 --> 01:15:39,535
you wanna play one more year.
At least one more.

1425
01:15:39,618 --> 01:15:41,620
Don't you wanna go out there
and see what it's like

1426
01:15:41,703 --> 01:15:44,081
to hit the turf as
the defending Super Bowl champion?

1427
01:15:44,164 --> 01:15:46,250
-You gotta want that.
-I mean, uh…

1428
01:15:46,333 --> 01:15:47,960
-[audience cheering]
-[Letterman] Yeah?

1429
01:15:48,043 --> 01:15:50,170
My dad had never allowed me
to quit anything

1430
01:15:50,254 --> 01:15:52,130
other than wrestling in eighth grade.

1431
01:15:53,257 --> 01:15:55,592
You know, we had a long sit-down.

1432
01:15:55,676 --> 01:15:57,010
He looked at me and said, "John,

1433
01:15:57,094 --> 01:15:59,596
you still have the physical tools
to play this game."

1434
01:16:00,347 --> 01:16:02,349
[uneasy music playing]

1435
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:06,687
Everybody keeps congratulating me
for coming back.

1436
01:16:06,770 --> 01:16:08,021
The thing is, I never left.

1437
01:16:08,105 --> 01:16:09,273
[reporters chuckling]

1438
01:16:10,524 --> 01:16:14,069
It didn't feel right. My heart didn't…
it didn't tell me it was time to quit.

1439
01:16:14,152 --> 01:16:16,530
The bottom line is,
I'm coming back so we can win.

1440
01:16:18,448 --> 01:16:21,410
[Shanahan] He was gonna get himself ready
to play. He was gonna play.

1441
01:16:21,910 --> 01:16:22,828
But he was hurting.

1442
01:16:23,787 --> 01:16:27,165
He was sacked more
than Dan Marino and Montana combined.

1443
01:16:27,833 --> 01:16:30,460
[younger Elway] I've had this knee
since I was hurt in high school.

1444
01:16:30,544 --> 01:16:31,628
I hurt it in high school.

1445
01:16:31,712 --> 01:16:33,922
I don't think any different about it now
than I did then.

1446
01:16:35,382 --> 01:16:39,595
[Jessica] We've all learned,
you put your head down and get through it.

1447
01:16:39,678 --> 01:16:43,473
That is how you build your character.
That's how you prove your character.

1448
01:16:43,557 --> 01:16:46,476
[commentator 1] I think John Elway
may have hurt his hamstring here.

1449
01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:48,770
[Jessica] You're tough. It's only pain.

1450
01:16:48,854 --> 01:16:51,940
[commentator 2] Elway was in…
in extreme pain.

1451
01:16:52,024 --> 01:16:54,693
[commentator 1] I think with the back,
you really don't know.

1452
01:16:54,776 --> 01:16:56,486
And you just do it.

1453
01:16:59,781 --> 01:17:02,326
[commentator 1] Davis,
first down and more.

1454
01:17:02,409 --> 01:17:04,953
Fifteen, ten, touchdown!

1455
01:17:05,037 --> 01:17:06,163
It's all over.

1456
01:17:06,246 --> 01:17:09,416
The Broncos repeat as AFC champions,

1457
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:12,002
and they'll return to the Super Bowl.

1458
01:17:12,502 --> 01:17:14,755
Here come the cheers for John Elway.

1459
01:17:14,838 --> 01:17:16,715
[commentator 2] Sixteen years.

1460
01:17:16,798 --> 01:17:20,218
[commentator 1] Greatness is more
than just the performance on the field.

1461
01:17:20,302 --> 01:17:23,764
This man has become
an integral part of this Denver community

1462
01:17:23,847 --> 01:17:25,349
and will be for a long time.

1463
01:17:25,432 --> 01:17:28,352
John was football first.

1464
01:17:29,561 --> 01:17:31,647
And he knew that I had the family.

1465
01:17:32,147 --> 01:17:34,066
I just felt that was…

1466
01:17:34,149 --> 01:17:37,235
What I was supposed to do
was make his life easier.

1467
01:17:37,319 --> 01:17:39,154
And I carried that through our marriage.

1468
01:17:39,655 --> 01:17:40,947
[music fades]

1469
01:17:41,031 --> 01:17:43,784
By that time, we were pretty disconnected.

1470
01:17:44,701 --> 01:17:48,622
And we began to go more south
in our relationship.

1471
01:17:49,331 --> 01:17:51,333
[poignant music playing]

1472
01:17:51,958 --> 01:17:53,502
[Elway] My mom doesn't get enough credit

1473
01:17:53,585 --> 01:17:56,004
because she was the one,
when Dad was working,

1474
01:17:56,088 --> 01:17:58,548
that took care of us kids because…

1475
01:17:58,632 --> 01:18:01,343
Really a great man,
but he enjoyed his time with his coaches

1476
01:18:01,426 --> 01:18:04,554
and his off time too,
which you have to do in that kind of job.

1477
01:18:05,055 --> 01:18:06,306
It takes a special woman.

1478
01:18:06,390 --> 01:18:10,477
And, uh, I joke and say,
we've been married 40 years.

1479
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:13,105
So I say, "I was real good to Jan.
I never went home."

1480
01:18:13,188 --> 01:18:16,274
-That was the long hours.
-That's why we've been married 40 years.

1481
01:18:16,358 --> 01:18:20,278
And I think probably, uh,
prior to us getting married,

1482
01:18:20,362 --> 01:18:24,741
she didn't quite understand, you know,
what a coach's life was all about.

1483
01:18:24,825 --> 01:18:30,122
But, uh, she was, uh,
not only a great wife, a great mother,

1484
01:18:30,205 --> 01:18:35,794
and a great coach's wife because, uh,
she realized what went with the job.

1485
01:18:37,421 --> 01:18:39,089
[Elway] He said, "John, listen to this."

1486
01:18:39,172 --> 01:18:41,717
He said, "My priorities are,
my job is number one,

1487
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:43,552
and my family is number two."

1488
01:18:43,635 --> 01:18:45,971
He says, "Everyone else will say
it's different than that."

1489
01:18:46,054 --> 01:18:49,641
He said, "But you know what, John?
My job was to take care of my family."

1490
01:18:49,725 --> 01:18:53,520
"And if I did not have a job,
I could not provide for my family."

1491
01:18:54,980 --> 01:18:56,732
[Jack Jr.] I used to be
pretty intimidated,

1492
01:18:56,815 --> 01:18:59,484
and I wasn't really open with him much
growing up.

1493
01:19:00,193 --> 01:19:01,611
Also, he wasn't around.

1494
01:19:02,112 --> 01:19:05,323
I tried to be as stoic as I could,
I guess. He's a very stoic person.

1495
01:19:05,407 --> 01:19:11,329
You know, the goal
of what I wanted to prove in football,

1496
01:19:11,830 --> 01:19:15,917
I think that focus and determination
did take away from my family.

1497
01:19:17,669 --> 01:19:21,006
I tried to be as present
as I possibly could.

1498
01:19:21,089 --> 01:19:24,259
But, you know, sometimes when I was home,
I wasn't nearly as present,

1499
01:19:24,342 --> 01:19:27,262
because I was thinking about
what was going on in my football life.

1500
01:19:27,971 --> 01:19:30,599
[Sharpe] All his kids are…
they're not kids anymore.

1501
01:19:30,682 --> 01:19:35,353
They're starting to be young adults.
And he's missed a large portion of that.

1502
01:19:35,854 --> 01:19:40,108
Those are the sacrifices that athletes,
they make.

1503
01:19:40,609 --> 01:19:42,819
But you understand
what it takes to be great

1504
01:19:42,903 --> 01:19:45,947
because you can't be great
between the hours of nine and five.

1505
01:19:46,531 --> 01:19:48,533
[dramatic music playing]

1506
01:19:49,451 --> 01:19:52,496
[music drowns out speech]

1507
01:20:00,003 --> 01:20:04,090
[Elway] Once we found out we were playing
Dan Reeves in the Super Bowl,

1508
01:20:04,174 --> 01:20:07,511
Mike and I looked at each other and said,
"How is this possible?"

1509
01:20:07,594 --> 01:20:09,721
[sportscaster] Reeves and Shanahan.

1510
01:20:09,805 --> 01:20:12,724
Well, let's just say,
there's a little bit of history there.

1511
01:20:12,808 --> 01:20:14,267
[Reeves] There's still a lot of hurt

1512
01:20:14,351 --> 01:20:17,604
that won't ever go away
from what my family's had to go through.

1513
01:20:17,687 --> 01:20:18,522
Hey.

1514
01:20:18,605 --> 01:20:21,525
Who would have thought four years ago
we'd be going against Dan?

1515
01:20:21,608 --> 01:20:23,652
Oh, I know. Hey.

1516
01:20:25,070 --> 01:20:26,655
Two times in a row.

1517
01:20:27,155 --> 01:20:29,407
-We gotta kick his ass.
-I know it.

1518
01:20:29,491 --> 01:20:32,869
[sportscaster] Steve DeBerg, the backup
quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons,

1519
01:20:32,953 --> 01:20:37,290
videotaping what is definitely
the highlight of his 18-year career.

1520
01:20:37,374 --> 01:20:39,918
[younger Elway] This is what we worked,
played so hard for.

1521
01:20:40,001 --> 01:20:42,712
Just remember, we can't win it
in the first quarter or second quarter.

1522
01:20:42,796 --> 01:20:45,257
We've gotta play
60 minutes of Bronco football.

1523
01:20:45,340 --> 01:20:46,716
We'll be World Champs.

1524
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:49,886
Let's have 60 minutes of fun
and get out and win this thing on three.

1525
01:20:49,970 --> 01:20:51,471
-One, two, three!
-Win!

1526
01:20:51,555 --> 01:20:54,474
[commentator 1] Super Bowl XXXIII
is underway.

1527
01:20:56,434 --> 01:20:59,396
I-formation now.
Denver first-and-goal inside the 1.

1528
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:01,606
Handoff to Howard Griffith
over left guard.

1529
01:21:01,690 --> 01:21:04,526
Griffith is in for a Denver touchdown.

1530
01:21:07,112 --> 01:21:10,156
[commentator 2] Robinson, who's supposed
to have middle containment,

1531
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:13,243
just got beat and then outrun.

1532
01:21:13,994 --> 01:21:17,414
Those moments for me, it's like,
you can't really describe it to people.

1533
01:21:18,290 --> 01:21:21,042
I got to see the man, the myth, the legend

1534
01:21:21,126 --> 01:21:23,879
in his essence
at the pinnacle of his career.

1535
01:21:23,962 --> 01:21:25,714
Let's go. Let's bury 'em now. Bury 'em!

1536
01:21:25,797 --> 01:21:28,174
You've gotta get
that defensive role on a roll.

1537
01:21:28,258 --> 01:21:30,343
-What you guys done in the playoffs.
-Let's go!

1538
01:21:30,427 --> 01:21:32,679
-Don't give up a touchdown!
-Know what I'm saying?

1539
01:21:32,762 --> 01:21:36,016
You can't give up a touchdown.
You haven't yet, and you're not gonna!

1540
01:21:36,099 --> 01:21:39,603
-They say falcon tastes like chicken.
-Stop. There you go.

1541
01:21:39,686 --> 01:21:41,521
They say it tastes like chicken.
I don't know.

1542
01:21:41,605 --> 01:21:44,441
[commentator 1] Griffith to the left.
Elway, with an empty backfield,

1543
01:21:44,524 --> 01:21:45,775
runs a quarterback draw

1544
01:21:45,859 --> 01:21:47,235
and lunges to the goal line.

1545
01:21:47,319 --> 01:21:48,695
-He is in.
-[man] Yeah!

1546
01:21:48,778 --> 01:21:51,156
[commentator 1] Touchdown,
John Elway and Denver.

1547
01:21:51,239 --> 01:21:54,868
He gets up with a big smile on his face,
and why not?

1548
01:21:54,951 --> 01:21:57,704
His club is in front 30-6.

1549
01:21:57,787 --> 01:22:01,499
[commentator 3] John Elway on target to be
the game's Most Valuable Player.

1550
01:22:01,583 --> 01:22:02,542
And you know what, Jeff?

1551
01:22:02,626 --> 01:22:06,379
That almost gives you a feeling
that maybe this is his last game.

1552
01:22:09,507 --> 01:22:10,842
[music fades]

1553
01:22:10,926 --> 01:22:12,427
[tranquil music playing]

1554
01:22:19,100 --> 01:22:21,102
[muted cheering]

1555
01:22:24,773 --> 01:22:27,233
[inaudible]

1556
01:22:35,492 --> 01:22:37,494
[inaudible]

1557
01:22:41,748 --> 01:22:45,335
[Elway] I turn around when they come back
and announce and give the trophy out.

1558
01:22:46,044 --> 01:22:48,546
I get to take the trophy
from Terry Bradshaw.

1559
01:22:52,050 --> 01:22:54,344
So it was what comes around, goes around,

1560
01:22:54,427 --> 01:22:58,390
and what a wonderful guy
to give me the trophy in my last game.

1561
01:22:58,473 --> 01:22:59,641
No hard feelings.

1562
01:23:00,684 --> 01:23:02,394
[groans, chokes]

1563
01:23:07,023 --> 01:23:08,566
[Wayne] The hell there ain't.

1564
01:23:08,650 --> 01:23:11,069
-[bittersweet music playing]
-[inaudible dialog]

1565
01:23:58,825 --> 01:24:01,286
[inaudible]

1566
01:24:16,968 --> 01:24:18,470
[applause]

1567
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:24,184
-Thank you.
-[music fades]

1568
01:24:24,267 --> 01:24:25,602
This… this is hard.

1569
01:24:25,685 --> 01:24:27,729
There's an over/under in the locker room

1570
01:24:28,563 --> 01:24:30,732
on, uh, how many times I'm gonna cry.

1571
01:24:30,815 --> 01:24:31,900
[laughter]

1572
01:24:31,983 --> 01:24:35,445
So I'm gonna…
I'm trying to bet on the under.

1573
01:24:35,528 --> 01:24:39,324
-[laughter]
-But I can't do it physically anymore.

1574
01:24:39,407 --> 01:24:41,284
Uh… uh…

1575
01:24:41,367 --> 01:24:43,995
[voice breaking] And that's really hard
for me to say.

1576
01:24:44,079 --> 01:24:46,206
-[poignant music playing]
-[Elway] Ooh. [sniffles]

1577
01:24:47,248 --> 01:24:50,585
Secondly, uh, it came down to family.

1578
01:24:50,668 --> 01:24:55,507
And, uh, they've been great,
uh, for 16 years… [sniffles]

1579
01:24:56,007 --> 01:24:59,219
…since, uh… since the kids have been born.

1580
01:24:59,302 --> 01:25:04,682
And, uh, the family life is focused
around me and football.

1581
01:25:04,766 --> 01:25:07,977
And it's time that, uh… [sniffles]

1582
01:25:08,728 --> 01:25:10,688
…it focuses around them.

1583
01:25:10,772 --> 01:25:12,774
[applause]

1584
01:25:16,236 --> 01:25:18,238
-[music fades]
-[wind gusting]

1585
01:25:21,449 --> 01:25:23,785
[present-day Elway] I wasn't
really worried about the future.

1586
01:25:24,494 --> 01:25:25,495
I was really thinking,

1587
01:25:25,578 --> 01:25:28,581
"I'm gonna relax for a couple of years
and get out of the spotlight

1588
01:25:28,665 --> 01:25:30,542
and then be a dad to the kids."

1589
01:25:31,042 --> 01:25:36,548
After having been ecstatically high,
having won two Super Bowls,

1590
01:25:36,631 --> 01:25:39,342
and now thinking
that I'm gonna ride off in the sunset.

1591
01:25:39,425 --> 01:25:41,177
And life's great.
And everything's perfect.

1592
01:25:41,261 --> 01:25:43,179
I accomplished everything
I wanted to accomplish

1593
01:25:43,263 --> 01:25:45,223
in, you know, in the NFL.

1594
01:25:45,306 --> 01:25:46,975
You know, life turned around

1595
01:25:47,058 --> 01:25:49,227
and probably got as tough
as it's ever been

1596
01:25:49,310 --> 01:25:51,104
in the next three or four years.

1597
01:25:51,187 --> 01:25:52,981
[somber music playing]

1598
01:25:56,943 --> 01:26:00,029
Jana got diagnosed
with stage-4 lung cancer,

1599
01:26:00,113 --> 01:26:01,447
and she was a nonsmoker.

1600
01:26:01,531 --> 01:26:04,951
You know, it was some weird…
She was having cramps in her calf.

1601
01:26:07,370 --> 01:26:10,623
We're doing everything we could
to try to figure out a solution to this.

1602
01:26:12,792 --> 01:26:15,795
My dad was very upset.
And things weren't right.

1603
01:26:15,879 --> 01:26:18,548
I was noticing
something a little bit funny

1604
01:26:18,631 --> 01:26:21,050
in the way that he was kind of acting.

1605
01:26:22,468 --> 01:26:25,638
Easter morning, my mom called.

1606
01:26:25,722 --> 01:26:28,266
We were still in bed, and Janet answered.

1607
01:26:28,766 --> 01:26:31,394
She just looked at me and said,
"Your dad died last night."

1608
01:26:39,736 --> 01:26:41,529
He had passed away that night.

1609
01:26:42,822 --> 01:26:44,199
Had a heart attack.

1610
01:26:45,700 --> 01:26:47,869
I remember getting up
and not knowing what to do.

1611
01:26:47,952 --> 01:26:51,664
I put some shorts on, and I just ran.
I just went and ran.

1612
01:26:53,750 --> 01:26:56,377
I must have run six, seven, eight miles.

1613
01:26:59,631 --> 01:27:03,009
Then about a year and a half later,
my older sister, Lee Ann, called me.

1614
01:27:03,092 --> 01:27:05,595
She says,
"John, you need to get here now."

1615
01:27:05,678 --> 01:27:08,973
Jana, she was in the hospital,
and she was having a tough time breathing.

1616
01:27:09,682 --> 01:27:11,976
And so I got out there that day.

1617
01:27:12,477 --> 01:27:15,480
And she needed to have an MRI

1618
01:27:15,563 --> 01:27:17,941
and, uh, see what was going on.

1619
01:27:18,024 --> 01:27:20,276
[voice breaking] So she ended up
passing away…

1620
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:21,402
[breathing shakily]

1621
01:27:21,486 --> 01:27:23,196
…in the… in the M… [sighs]

1622
01:27:23,738 --> 01:27:25,531
[voice breaking] …in the MRI tube.

1623
01:27:27,367 --> 01:27:28,368
So…

1624
01:27:30,036 --> 01:27:30,912
Um…

1625
01:27:31,412 --> 01:27:32,538
[inhales deeply]

1626
01:27:32,622 --> 01:27:35,416
Obviously, another… big jolt.

1627
01:27:40,296 --> 01:27:41,631
I always say,

1628
01:27:42,799 --> 01:27:46,177
I was the first one to see her
and… the last one to see her.

1629
01:27:46,261 --> 01:27:48,096
It was my twin, so…

1630
01:27:49,180 --> 01:27:51,182
[inaudible]

1631
01:27:54,894 --> 01:27:56,020
[inhales deeply]

1632
01:27:57,105 --> 01:27:59,524
I didn't know
this was gonna be this tough today.

1633
01:28:00,942 --> 01:28:01,901
Okay.

1634
01:28:04,904 --> 01:28:07,115
-[breathing deeply]
-[music fades]

1635
01:28:07,198 --> 01:28:08,241
I think

1636
01:28:09,325 --> 01:28:13,121
for any athlete, and I can only imagine
an athlete at his level,

1637
01:28:13,204 --> 01:28:14,455
that's your identity.

1638
01:28:14,539 --> 01:28:17,458
And so to lose that, right? That's a loss.

1639
01:28:17,542 --> 01:28:20,420
And then to lose your other half in Jana

1640
01:28:20,503 --> 01:28:22,505
and to lose your best friend in my poppi,

1641
01:28:23,589 --> 01:28:28,469
it was unfathomable
how much pain there was there.

1642
01:28:28,970 --> 01:28:29,929
[somber music playing]

1643
01:28:30,013 --> 01:28:32,640
I just felt… I felt for my dad

1644
01:28:32,724 --> 01:28:36,227
but also was a kid
trying to make sense of it myself.

1645
01:28:37,103 --> 01:28:40,231
It was hard to even understand
what was happening

1646
01:28:40,315 --> 01:28:43,443
and what emotions we were feeling.

1647
01:28:43,943 --> 01:28:46,571
My parents' marriage was crumbling,

1648
01:28:46,654 --> 01:28:49,657
and that was very evident
in our household.

1649
01:28:51,451 --> 01:28:54,704
[Jessica] One of the things
that breaks my heart for my mom a little

1650
01:28:54,787 --> 01:28:58,750
is that she was a phenomenal athlete.

1651
01:28:58,833 --> 01:29:03,755
And I think
that she lost her own identity in him,

1652
01:29:03,838 --> 01:29:05,757
in supporting him.

1653
01:29:09,427 --> 01:29:11,429
[Elway] I always thought
I'd be married forever.

1654
01:29:12,180 --> 01:29:14,766
And unfortunately, it got to the point

1655
01:29:14,849 --> 01:29:18,478
where it was
probably even better for our kids

1656
01:29:18,561 --> 01:29:21,606
um, you know, for us to have…
you know, be apart.

1657
01:29:21,689 --> 01:29:23,691
[music turns uneasy]

1658
01:29:28,404 --> 01:29:32,200
[man] Now, probably once in our lifetimes,
certainly in mine,

1659
01:29:32,283 --> 01:29:35,745
there is a player
that becomes so important to us

1660
01:29:35,828 --> 01:29:37,330
and so much our hero

1661
01:29:37,413 --> 01:29:41,084
that his number and his name
are synonymous.

1662
01:29:41,167 --> 01:29:44,837
There will never be another number seven
on the Denver Broncos.

1663
01:29:44,921 --> 01:29:48,132
[crowd chanting] Elway! Elway! Elway!

1664
01:29:49,550 --> 01:29:51,552
[chanting fades]

1665
01:29:56,849 --> 01:29:59,435
[Elway] I think that was probably
the toughest time of my life.

1666
01:30:03,481 --> 01:30:07,151
I really worried about him
as, you know… as a friend.

1667
01:30:07,235 --> 01:30:09,153
He was not himself.

1668
01:30:10,113 --> 01:30:12,615
[Elway] You're used to being around
a lot of people all the time,

1669
01:30:12,698 --> 01:30:16,452
and all of a sudden,
that circle shrinks a lot.

1670
01:30:17,203 --> 01:30:18,496
It gets lonely.

1671
01:30:20,081 --> 01:30:23,292
I was thinking,
"How am I gonna get through this?"

1672
01:30:23,376 --> 01:30:25,378
[hopeful music playing]

1673
01:30:26,254 --> 01:30:28,756
I always wanted to be able to prove
that I could do something well

1674
01:30:28,840 --> 01:30:29,966
other than play quarterback.

1675
01:30:31,801 --> 01:30:34,929
I was very fortunate
that football came back in my life.

1676
01:30:35,888 --> 01:30:40,893
Mr. Bowlen gave me an opportunity
to come back to the Broncos as a GM.

1677
01:30:41,394 --> 01:30:44,105
I was able to kind of get me back on track

1678
01:30:44,188 --> 01:30:46,941
and hopefully get back to enjoying life
a little bit more.

1679
01:30:47,775 --> 01:30:49,402
When I got the GM job,

1680
01:30:49,485 --> 01:30:52,905
I was definitely thinking
how proud Dad would be.

1681
01:30:53,406 --> 01:30:57,785
He had a really good eye for talent,
and so I was really thinking about,

1682
01:30:57,869 --> 01:31:00,788
"Can I be as a good evaluator of talent
as he was?"

1683
01:31:01,289 --> 01:31:02,832
[younger Elway] And with that said,

1684
01:31:02,915 --> 01:31:05,418
I'll introduce the next quarterback
of the Denver Broncos,

1685
01:31:05,501 --> 01:31:06,544
Peyton Manning.

1686
01:31:06,627 --> 01:31:08,045
[applause]

1687
01:31:10,548 --> 01:31:13,593
[commentator 1] First and goal, handoff,
C.J. Anderson, left guard into Kuechly.

1688
01:31:13,676 --> 01:31:16,387
Second effort to the goal line.
Touchdown, Denver!

1689
01:31:16,471 --> 01:31:18,681
[commentator 2] The Denver Broncos
are World Champions!

1690
01:31:18,764 --> 01:31:21,392
They have just won Super Bowl 50!

1691
01:31:21,476 --> 01:31:24,020
[Elway] As a GM, it's different
winning a World Championship,

1692
01:31:24,103 --> 01:31:27,440
but it feels just as satisfying
as winning as a player.

1693
01:31:27,523 --> 01:31:29,192
This one's for Pat!

1694
01:31:29,275 --> 01:31:31,611
[crowd cheering]

1695
01:31:31,694 --> 01:31:33,696
-[somber music playing]
-[cheering fades]

1696
01:31:37,992 --> 01:31:40,328
[Elway] When I said, "This one's for Pat,"

1697
01:31:41,913 --> 01:31:45,041
I was also thinking,
"This is for Dad too."

1698
01:31:51,005 --> 01:31:54,509
[Schefter] He did something
that nobody else ever has done.

1699
01:31:55,009 --> 01:31:59,639
Of the thousands of players
in NFL history,

1700
01:32:00,139 --> 01:32:03,684
only one has won a Super Bowl

1701
01:32:03,768 --> 01:32:06,270
as a player and as a GM.

1702
01:32:06,979 --> 01:32:12,026
John was bigger than just a sports figure
here in Colorado.

1703
01:32:12,109 --> 01:32:16,489
No one even knew where the heck Denver was
until John got here.

1704
01:32:16,572 --> 01:32:21,702
[Schefter] He literally helped
a city transform itself.

1705
01:32:22,411 --> 01:32:26,374
John Elway is
one of the single greatest athletes

1706
01:32:26,999 --> 01:32:28,834
who ever lived.

1707
01:32:34,006 --> 01:32:35,466
[music fades]

1708
01:32:35,550 --> 01:32:36,926
[birdsong]

1709
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:49,522
[peaceful instrumental music playing]

1710
01:32:58,114 --> 01:33:00,992
[Elway] When I finally stepped down
with the Broncos as a GM,

1711
01:33:02,201 --> 01:33:03,953
it was the right time.

1712
01:33:09,750 --> 01:33:10,918
For me to kinda fade away,

1713
01:33:11,002 --> 01:33:13,462
I think it was
the perfect way for me to leave football

1714
01:33:13,546 --> 01:33:15,548
and ride off in the sunset.

1715
01:33:18,968 --> 01:33:21,095
It's time to kinda relax a little bit.

1716
01:33:23,347 --> 01:33:27,310
And so, at 65 years old now,
I can smell the roses.

1717
01:33:27,393 --> 01:33:28,811
[music fades]

1718
01:33:31,981 --> 01:33:34,609
[girl] ♪ We have a lot of energy ♪

1719
01:33:35,109 --> 01:33:39,113
♪ We do, we do, we have a lot of energy ♪

1720
01:33:39,196 --> 01:33:41,741
There's nobody having more fun
in the world right now.

1721
01:33:41,824 --> 01:33:43,701
[girl] It smells like dead fish.

1722
01:33:43,784 --> 01:33:46,078
[boy] Ew! Yeah, it does, but I like it!

1723
01:33:46,162 --> 01:33:47,622
[Elway] Should we start cooking?

1724
01:33:47,705 --> 01:33:49,457
[indistinct chatter]

1725
01:33:49,540 --> 01:33:51,083
These far ones, eh?

1726
01:33:52,710 --> 01:33:57,214
He loves coming to Coeur d'Alene
because it's almost like his hideaway

1727
01:33:57,298 --> 01:34:03,179
and his, you know, place to finally relax
and not let the outside noise in.

1728
01:34:03,262 --> 01:34:04,764
How old are you, Palmer?

1729
01:34:04,847 --> 01:34:06,182
Palmer, how old are you?

1730
01:34:06,265 --> 01:34:07,266
-Say "one."
-One.

1731
01:34:07,350 --> 01:34:08,768
-[boy] Say "one."
-Did he say "one"?

1732
01:34:08,851 --> 01:34:09,769
[babbles] No!

1733
01:34:10,269 --> 01:34:12,271
-[chuckles]
-[indistinct chatter]

1734
01:34:12,355 --> 01:34:14,690
[boy] We beat you, Poppi.

1735
01:34:14,774 --> 01:34:16,442
-Huh?
-We beat you.

1736
01:34:16,942 --> 01:34:18,235
-In the boat?
-Yeah.

1737
01:34:18,319 --> 01:34:20,196
[Elway] Uh-huh. Do you like to win?

1738
01:34:20,863 --> 01:34:22,782
I like to beat you.

1739
01:34:22,865 --> 01:34:24,408
You like to beat me?

1740
01:34:24,909 --> 01:34:28,079
[Jordan] Stress level-wise,
ability to be present,

1741
01:34:28,162 --> 01:34:29,330
I would say is different.

1742
01:34:29,413 --> 01:34:30,956
'Cause even though before,

1743
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:35,211
you were able to travel and be here
and stuff, your brain was somewhere else.

1744
01:34:35,294 --> 01:34:37,296
You were thinking about
what you had to get back to,

1745
01:34:37,380 --> 01:34:42,134
but now you can be here,
be truly present with the grandkids.

1746
01:34:42,218 --> 01:34:44,553
I knew that, like,
you were gonna be less stressed,

1747
01:34:44,637 --> 01:34:47,890
and you were gonna be happier
and finally get your "retirement"

1748
01:34:47,973 --> 01:34:49,225
and do what you wanted to do.

1749
01:34:49,308 --> 01:34:51,435
Oh!

1750
01:34:51,519 --> 01:34:54,605
-[Juliana] You're settling into that.
-Oh yeah.

1751
01:34:56,023 --> 01:34:58,401
[Jack Jr.] Now I'm willing
to talk to him about anything,

1752
01:34:58,484 --> 01:35:00,403
which, before, I would never have done.

1753
01:35:00,486 --> 01:35:03,698
It's really fun to become friends,
you know, with your dad.

1754
01:35:03,781 --> 01:35:06,242
I do remember, third grade,
after you won the first one,

1755
01:35:06,826 --> 01:35:08,369
the whole class was like…

1756
01:35:08,869 --> 01:35:11,247
-[Juliana] No way.
-[Jessica] I would be so embarrassed.

1757
01:35:11,330 --> 01:35:12,248
I was embarrassed.

1758
01:35:12,331 --> 01:35:14,500
-[chuckles]
-I was like, "Thanks."

1759
01:35:15,876 --> 01:35:17,253
[Elway] How's that new glove?

1760
01:35:19,213 --> 01:35:22,049
[Janet] I mean, definitely John…

1761
01:35:23,968 --> 01:35:26,846
There's a greatness about him.

1762
01:35:26,929 --> 01:35:28,013
How is that?

1763
01:35:28,097 --> 01:35:29,515
-[boy] Good.
-Is that good?

1764
01:35:30,641 --> 01:35:34,562
So to see him getting down with the kids
and loving the grandkids like he does,

1765
01:35:34,645 --> 01:35:37,481
is just really lovely to see that he's…

1766
01:35:38,149 --> 01:35:39,900
Doesn't matter what, he's just, uh…

1767
01:35:39,984 --> 01:35:41,152
he's just Poppi.

1768
01:35:47,575 --> 01:35:49,744
[music fades]

1769
01:35:49,827 --> 01:35:51,162
[sighs]

1770
01:35:51,245 --> 01:35:52,288
[girl] Twenty!

1771
01:35:52,371 --> 01:35:54,248
[children chatter indistinctly]

1772
01:35:54,331 --> 01:35:57,251
[Elway] I'm really excited now that,
you know what,

1773
01:35:57,334 --> 01:36:00,379
there's no expectations
that I have to live up to anymore,

1774
01:36:00,463 --> 01:36:03,424
other than being a great parent
and a great grandparent.

1775
01:36:05,593 --> 01:36:06,635
I can enjoy life

1776
01:36:06,719 --> 01:36:10,014
and not have that hole in my stomach
that football is not there.

1777
01:36:10,097 --> 01:36:12,099
[gentle acoustic ballad playing]

1778
01:36:13,225 --> 01:36:15,519
[Elway] It was worth all the hard work,
that I went through,

1779
01:36:15,603 --> 01:36:17,062
and now I'm gonna enjoy it.

1780
01:36:19,315 --> 01:36:21,317
♪ Thank you ♪

1781
01:36:21,400 --> 01:36:25,529
♪ For a life that I'd call happy ♪

1782
01:36:29,867 --> 01:36:35,206
♪ Overlooking
All that we've been through ♪

1783
01:36:36,081 --> 01:36:38,083
[indistinct chatter]

1784
01:36:39,752 --> 01:36:43,255
♪ When it comes to loving, I've been… ♪

1785
01:36:43,339 --> 01:36:45,257
You like that apple, don't you?

1786
01:36:45,841 --> 01:36:47,092
Is that a good apple?

1787
01:36:48,594 --> 01:36:49,470
[chuckles]

1788
01:36:49,553 --> 01:36:54,725
♪ Everything I am, I owe to you ♪

1789
01:36:54,809 --> 01:36:56,310
[Elway] Are you gonna play football?

1790
01:36:59,230 --> 01:37:05,027
♪ Thank you
For the little girls you gave me ♪

1791
01:37:08,906 --> 01:37:14,370
♪ Thank you for them bouncing baby boys ♪

1792
01:37:18,916 --> 01:37:25,464
♪ Thank you for the sadness
That you saved me from ♪

1793
01:37:25,548 --> 01:37:28,759
♪ The madness, baby ♪

1794
01:37:28,843 --> 01:37:34,181
♪ All I'm crying now are tears of joy ♪

1795
01:37:38,602 --> 01:37:44,358
♪ Thank you
For that burning sun that's rising ♪

1796
01:37:48,737 --> 01:37:54,368
♪ Golden in the air that smells so sweet ♪

1797
01:37:58,539 --> 01:38:04,795
♪ Thank you for that empty far horizon ♪

1798
01:38:07,798 --> 01:38:13,554
♪ That opens to a new eternity ♪

1799
01:38:18,851 --> 01:38:21,812
♪ You know I'm grateful for the freedom ♪

1800
01:38:22,396 --> 01:38:24,023
♪ And the chances… ♪

1801
01:38:24,106 --> 01:38:25,691
[music fades]