(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1960 1983 1996 1997 2001 2012 2015 Denver Broncos Team Formation In the summer of 1959, Bob Howsam, owner of minor league baseball’s Denver Bears, had a problem. He’d expanded Bears Stadium to 34,000 after Denver was named a charter member of the Continental League, a proposed third major league. However, the league died when …