Orange Crush:The History

[orange 4 life]

Originally Posted by B-Love

I do not know the stats for this one but I clearly remember Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford and Alex Karrass going nuts over our Defense that night. The Broncos did lose but we hit the **** out of Oakland that night. Our linebackers, particularly Joe Rizzo were animals that night.

nice post b-love. great account of all the games.

one thing to add here.
that defense indeed does get ignored by most of the national media.

that we all know and agree on.

in denver, we all remember and appreciate them.
that said, even in DENVER, i think there's a couple guys that dont get the credit they deserve.

one is the guy you just mentioned, and the other is swenson.

gradishar and jackson get all the credit (and they should get alot of praise), but i think alot of people even here forget that all FOUR of those linebackers were outstanding, and had swensons career not been cut short by injury, he may actually have ended up being the best of the bunch.

any other opinions on the subject?

jake