They Haven’t Won a Super Bowl in 10 Years. Who Still Supports the Broncos?
Another season has come and gone for the Denver Broncos — and once again, the Lombardi Trophy is not heading to Mile High City. The 2025 NFL season was supposed to be different. The Broncos clinched the No. 1 seed in the AFC with a franchise-tying 14-3 record, advanced through the Divisional Round, and reached the AFC Championship Game for the first time in a decade. Yet when the dust settled after a heartbreaking 10-7 loss to the New England Patriots, Denver found itself one win short of Super Bowl LX, leaving fans to wrestle with a familiar and painful question: Is there any reason to still believe?
A Fanbase Built on Loyalty — and Suffering Here’s the thing about Broncos fans: they don’t leave. Walk into any sports bar in Denver on a Sunday and you will find them there, wearing their orange and navy, holding their breath through every snap. They’ve been doing it since 1960. They’ve watched franchise after franchise built around a great quarterback — Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City, Josh Allen in Buffalo, Joe Burrow in Cincinnati — while Denver has cycled through disappointment after disappointment since Super Bowl 50. And yet, the seats at Empower Field at Mile High keep filling. The jerseys keep selling. The loyalty never wavers. That says something profound about the soul of this fanbase.
The Bo Nix Question If there is a reason for Broncos fans to keep the faith, his name is Bo Nix. The young quarterback, in his second season, delivered an impressive 2025 campaign: 3,931 passing yards, 25 touchdowns, and led the team to a 14-3 record with clutch fourth-quarter heroics and game-winning drives. He suffered a season-ending ankle injury in the AFC Championship, but the flashes of brilliance were undeniable — elite negative play rate, strong decision-making, and leadership that rallied the team. The talent is real. The question is time: how much patience do the Broncos — and their fans — have left to give as Nix recovers? History suggests Broncos fans will give all of it. Because that is who they are.
More Than a Football Team Supporting the Denver Broncos has never been purely about winning. It is about identity. It is about Sunday afternoons in the thin air, about the ghosts of John Elway, Terrell Davis, and the Orange Crush defense, about the legendary back-to-back Super Bowl wins in the late '90s and the triumphant Super Bowl 50 defense that still lives rent-free in the minds of an entire generation. That history is a source of pride that no drought can erase. The Broncos represent a version of Denver that is resilient, optimistic, and fiercely proud. Their fans inherited that identity — passed down through families, through neighborhoods, through decades of near-misses and heartbreak.
Still Here, Still Loud So who still supports the Broncos? Everyone who grew up watching them. Everyone who stayed up late praying for a miracle comeback. Everyone who has a grandparent who told them stories about Elway and the Drive. Everyone who still believes that one day — maybe this year, maybe the next — it will finally be Denver’s turn again. The Broncos may not have won the Super Bowl this season. But their fans showed up anyway. And that, more than any championship, is the truest measure of what this team means to the city of Denver.
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