1967 Denver Broncos season

The 1967 Denver Broncos season was the eighth season for the team in the American Football League (AFL). Led by first-year head coach and general manager Lou Saban, the Broncos posted a record of three wins and eleven losses, last in the AFL's Western division. Running back Floyd Little, a first round draft choice (sixth overall), was team captain in his rookie season.^[1] After an opening win at home, the Broncos lost nine straight games, then split the last four.

Inter-league play between the AFL and NFL in the exhibition season began this year. In the first matchup on August 5, the Broncos defeated the Detroit Lions 13–7 and became the first AFL team to beat an NFL team.^[2][3][4]

Before the season, the Broncos changed from orange helmets to blue helmets.^[5]

This was the first season that the Broncos wore their now famous "Orange Crush" uniforms, but the famous D logo on the helmets was not introduced until the next season. The team made slight modifications to the uniforms until they were retired 30 years later, after the 1996 season. The Orange Crush uniforms returned in 2024, albeit in a slightly different design, retaining the helmet design from the 1997 uniforms (but retiring the '97 uniforms all together), along with the 1977 uniforms as a throwback.

Hired in December 1966, Saban left the University of Maryland after just one season; he had previously been an AFL head coach at Boston and Buffalo, where he won consecutive AFL titles.^[6][7][8]