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CHAMPIONSHIP RING
THE STORY OF 1999 SUPER BOWL XXXIII
DENVER BRONCOS
Super Bowl XXXIII was an American football game between the American Football
Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos and the National Football Conference
(NFC) champion Atlanta Falcons to decide the National Football League (NFL)
champion for the 1998 season. The Broncos defeated the Falcons by the score of
34–19, winning their second consecutive Super Bowl. The game was played on
January 31, 1999 at Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida (now part of the suburb of
Miami Gardens, which became a separate city in 2003).
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1999 SUPER BOWL XXXIII
CHAMPIONSHIP RING
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The defending Super Bowl champion Broncos entered the game with an AFC-best
14–2 regular season record. The Falcons, under former Denver head coach Dan
Reeves, were making their first Super Bowl appearance after also posting a 14–2
regular season record.
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1999 SUPER BOWL XXXIII
CHAMPIONSHIP RING
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Aided by quarterback John Elway's 80-yard touchdown pass to receiver Rod Smith,
Denver scored 17 consecutive points to build a 17–3 lead in the 2nd quarter from
which Atlanta could not recover. At 38 years old, Elway became the oldest player
ever to be named Super Bowl MVP. In the final game of his career, he completed 18
of 29 passes for 336 yards with one touchdown and one interception, and also scored
a 3-yard rushing touchdown. Elway retired on May 2, 1999 before the following
season.
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The NFL originally awarded Super Bowl XXXIII to Candlestick Park in San Francisco
on November 2, 1994, at the owners meetings in Rosemont, Illinois but pulled the
game away after it came unclear whether planned renovations to the stadium were
going to happen.
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1999 SUPER BOWL XXXIII
CHAMPIONSHIP RING
THE STORY OF
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NFL owners then awarded Super Bowl XXXIII to the Miami area during their October 31, 1996
meeting in New Orleans. This was the eighth time that the area hosted the game, and the third at
Pro Player Stadium. Following Super Bowl XXXII, which was played at Qualcomm Stadium in
San Diego, Super Bowl XXXIII would mark the last time back-to-back Super Bowls were played
outdoors until Super Bowls XLIII, which was held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, and
XLIV, which was played at Pro Player Stadium, now known as Sun Life Stadium. This started a
streak of 11 straight Super Bowls in which every game with the NFC as the home team was
played outdoors and every one with the AFC as the home team was played indoors (incidentally,
these games were followed by three Super Bowls played indoors, as Cowboys Stadium, Lucas
Oil Stadium, and the Superdome were chosen as the sites of Super Bowls XLV-XLVII; Super
Bowls XLV and XLVI were played in stadiums with retractable roofs that were closed prior to the
start of the game).
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