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CHAMPIONSHIP RING
THE STORY OF 1998 SUPER BOWL XXXII
DENVER BRONCOS

3. Super Bowl XXXII was an American football game between the National Football
Conference (NFC) champion Green Bay Packers and the American Football
Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos to decide the National Football
League (NFL) champion for the 1997 season. The Broncos defeated the Packers by
the score of 31–24. The game was played on January 25, 1998 at Qualcomm
Stadium in San Diego, California, the second time that the Super Bowl was held in
that city. Super Bowl XXXII also made Qualcomm Stadium the only stadium in
history to have the Super Bowl and the World Series in the same year.
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5. This was Denver's first league championship after suffering four previous Super Bowl
losses, and snapped a 13-game losing streak for AFC teams in the Super Bowl (the
previous being the Los Angeles Raiders' win in Super Bowl XVIII after the 1983
season). The Broncos, who entered the game after posting a 12–4 regular season
record in 1997, became just the second wild card team to win a Super Bowl and the
first since the Raiders in Super Bowl XV. The Packers, who entered the game as the
defending Super Bowl XXXI champions after posting a 13–3 regular season record,
were the first team favored to win by double digits to lose a Super Bowl since Super
Bowl IV.
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7. The game was close throughout much of the contest. The Broncos converted two
turnovers to take a 17–7 lead in the second quarter before the Packers cut the score
to 17–14 at halftime. Green Bay kept pace with Denver in the second half, before
tying the game with 13:32 remaining. Both defenses stiffened until Broncos running
back Terrell Davis scored the go-ahead touchdown with 1:45 left. Despite suffering a
migraine headache that caused him to miss most of the second quarter, Davis (a San
Diego native) was named Super Bowl MVP. He ran for 157 yards, caught two passes
for 8 yards, and scored a Super Bowl record three rushing touchdowns.
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9. Denver was the first team with a previous 0-2 Super Bowl record to win (their record
had been 0-4). The Broncos' victory snapped the NFC's 13-game winning streak in the
Super Bowl, becoming the first AFC team to win the NFL championship since the Los
Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII. Denver also
became the first team to score on four 1-yard touchdown runs in a Super Bowl. The
Packers became the third defending Super Bowl champion to lose the Super Bowl,
joining the Dallas Cowboys (won Super Bowl XII, lost Super Bowl XIII) and the
Washington Redskins (won Super Bowl XVII, lost Super Bowl XVIII), and would be
later joined by the Seattle Seahawks in 2015 (won Super Bowl XLVIII, lost Super Bowl
XLIX).
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1998 SUPER BOWL XXXII
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DENVER

11. NFL owners awarded Super Bowl XXXII to San Diego during their October 26, 1993
meeting in Chicago. This was the second time San Diego hosted the game; the city
previously hosted Super Bowl XXII ten years earlier on January 31, 1988. The
Broncos played in both San Diego Super Bowls and became the first franchise to
play two different Super Bowls in two stadiums twice. They also played twice at the
Louisiana Superdome.
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1998 SUPER BOWL XXXII
CHAMPIONSHIP RING
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