(S10) - PT 3 - Memories

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Ben Horne has had many memorable moments in his life. However, the most influential, in terms of his football career, was Super Bowl XXXII, The Denver Broncos vs Green Bay Packers. Of course Ben was too young to remember this Super Bowl live, but his father had a VHS recording of the game. One day, when Ben about 9, he found this tape in a stack of old VHS tapes his parents were going to sell at a garage sale. In typical curious fashion, Ben watched the tape, 90’s Super Bowl commercials and all. Up to this point, Ben was pretty neutral on sports, but this game changed that. This game was more than a 1 time affair, but a game with a long back story. The Denver Broncos, and then old man John Elway, had lost 4 Super Bowls. John may have been one of the best QBs of all time, but without a Super Bowl ring, he was just a regular old Dan Marino. On the other side was the reigning champions and their gunslinger Brett Favre, the first player ever to win the NFL MVP award three times. The Broncos were underdogs. The game was a constant fight, with a close score throughout the match, until Terrell Davis, coming off a 1750 yard rushing season (and getting 2000 yards the next season), busted through the defense (which included the late great Reggie White) for a touchdown with less than 2 minutes to go. Terrell Davis would become the Super Bowl MVP. This game illustrated that football was a highly strategic and competitive sport with a backstory. And from this day forward, Ben would become obsessed with football, and a lifelong Denver Broncos fan.


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(Out of character: I was definitely old enough to remember watching Super Bowl XXXII (which started my love for football), but my character was not)