Though a small arguement could be made for Cookie Gilchrist, Horan was here longer and did a fair job. Still, it makes you want for more # 2’s to choose from.

For each, we should recollect our favorite memories. I have an autographed Super Bowl Book, that recollects the season and players, by John Elway. It’s one of my pride possessions. Then, the only thing I am old enough to remember from that Broncos Packers Super Bowl is TD making that final TD run. Good memories.

While I mostly agree with TJ above, I believe Cookie Gilchrist should get a bit more play. I just remember his signing being a very big deal at the time (ranking up there with the Pete Liske-led exhibition game win over the Lions at the old DU stadium – at least I think that’s right) and represented the biggest “name-signing” prior to getting Floyd Little on board a couple years later. In terms of providing “team legitimacy” in shaky times, this was big. Of course he turned out to be pretty used up by that point and was forever losing contact lenses, but still . . .

I remember Horan well as a solid punter, but wasn’t aware he was on the Rams’ SB team. Belated congratulations to him, and thanks for doing your homework on this. I’m loving this series.

Looks like he should be in the male version of the rockets! Or maybe something far worse.

while he only played for Denver in 1965 and 1967 (playing for Miami in between) Gilchrist deserves mention for his larger contribution. Quoting from Wikipedia"

In an early civil rights victory for black athletes, Gilchrist led a successful boycott of New Orleans as the site of the 1965 American Football League All-Star game [because of that city’s segregationist policies]. He is the only athlete to turn down being enshrined into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Museum, because of what he described as racism and exploitation by management. Gilchrist frequently was at odds with team management, the American ones working for Canadian teams, he told a reporter from the London Free Press, saying that most of the problems he encountered were a result of his standing up for principles at a time when black athletes were expected to remain silent.

I think it’s easy in this day and age to take for granted the sacrifices that many of the early black made to make the game what is is today. It’s also a credit to the Phipps that they saw a football player not a “negro trouble-maker.”