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Steve Foley speaks about 1977 Orange Crush season with Denver Broncos
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1:00Now PlayingDenver Broncos owners Greg Penner and Carrie Walton Penner along with the recently revised Ring of Fame committee have decided it's never too late to honor yesterday’s heroes.
In a vote that corrected decades of wrong, the committee announced Thursday it has elected two of the most prominent players from its first Super Bowl team, tight end Riley Odoms and cornerback/safety Steve Foley, into the Broncos Ring of Fame.
Denver’s famed Orange Crush era is almost always associated with the 1977 season. That team has been reprised in 2024.
In February, Randy Gradishar, the leading tackler for the Orange Crush defense, was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In April, Barney Chavous, a longtime defensive end in the Orange Crush’s famed 3-4 system, was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame. Now two of their teammates, Odoms and Foley, will have their names hung on the Empower Field at Mile High Ring of Fame façade and their pillars will be added to the Ring of Fame Plaza outside the stadium’s South Stands.
“It’s been a lot of years but all highways are not straight,'' Odoms said to 9NEWS from his home in Houston. "But we got there and I’m excited about it.”
Said Foley: “It’s just surreal. Greg Penner called me about 9 and let me know. I actually thought he was calling about something to do with Randy (Gradishar) in Canton. I’m floored. I’m humbled, I’m honored, I’m floored.”
Foley, who has stayed in the Denver area and is still active in real estate, will be out at Broncos' headquarters later Thursday morning with his wife Cindy, brother Joe and daughter Natalie and her family.
Odoms and Foley were the first players to receive the nod from the Broncos’ revised Ring of Fame committee that was formed last year. Led by the team’s owners, the new ROF committee also consists of former head coach Mike Shanahan, Hall of Fame safety Steve Atwater, radio play-by-play announcer Dave Logan and former longtime public relations director Jim Saccomano. The committee met in person this week at the Broncos’ Dove Valley headquarters.
The elections of Odoms and Foley were long overdue. Foley has held the Broncos’ interception record with 44 since 1986. Subsequent Broncos’ Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive backs like Champ Bailey and Atwater have fallen well short of Foley’s record.
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