The Broncos will play their 1,001st regular-season game Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. Have a ball.

Dissimilar to Broncos first general manager Dean Griffing 6½ decades ago, current GM George Paton will not be scrumming in the stadium’s south stands section for footballs kicked into the end zone seats.

Several of the 75,125 fans in attendance who catch an errant field goal attempt can keep permanently the official NFL ball that costs about $200. Paton will remain calm in his second-deck suite.

However, in 1960 when the New York Titans played the Broncos before 5,861 folks at Bears Stadium, Griffing would wrangle an official AFL football that cost $20 away from a kid and return it to the sideline for use again in the game.

The Howsam family that paid $25,000 for the Broncos were o

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