Ed McCaffrey recently shared the John Elway memory that stands out most to him from the Denver Broncos' Super Bowl XXXII run, and it came at the very end of the game. On the Rich Eisen Show, McCaffrey pointed back to the moment when he and Elway lined up in the Victory Formation and watched the final seconds tick away after the Broncos' win.
For McCaffrey, the memory carries extra weight because it was tied to Elway's first Super Bowl title. Elway had lost three Super Bowls in the 1980s before finally winning one with the Broncos in the 1997 NFL season, then followed it with a second consecutive championship in the 1998 NFL season.
The end of Super Bowl XXXII
McCaffrey said the moment he remembers most came at the end of Super Bowl XXXII, when he and Elway were in the Victory Formation. After the snap, McCaffrey saw Elway's emotional reaction, a brief but meaningful reminder of what the championship meant after so many earlier setbacks.
It is a fitting snapshot of that era for the Broncos. McCaffrey was part of the team's late-1990s dominance, and the image of Elway finally reaching the top after years of disappointment remains one of the most memorable in NFL history. Two and a half minutes can change everything, and in this case, the end of Super Bowl XXXII gave McCaffrey a front-row view of Elway's release and relief at last.
