The Broncos soon will be cutting the ribbon at their new headquarters and cutting the Gordian knot at training camp for their next NFL championship aspirations.

Alexander The Great would be proud, and Elway The Magnificent will be.

Quarterback Bo Nix is returning from the fix of the second-most famous bone spurs in American and AFC history, and GM George Paton and coach Sean Payton are returning with renewed contracts through 2030 when the franchise is expected to play in its fourth Denver stadium. (The University of Denver occasionally was the other.)

Big Doings at the New Digs for the Broncos.

How Orange is Dove Valley – 34 miles from where the team was begotten and almost forgotten immediately 66 years ago.

The first training camp was held in July on a football field at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and the 110 gathered players had been drafted out of a Street & Smith pre-season football magazine or signed as want-to-be’s or washouts from small colleges, other leagues and plumbing supply stores. The applicants slept on cots in the college gym and wore hand-me-down ragged uniforms. More than 75 didn’t make it to the inaugural AFL game.

The Broncos’ latest training camp begins in a month at the $175 million palatial complex constructed southeast of Denver 3.5 miles from the nearest Walmart. Of the 90 players, 30, including Nix, were selected by a front-office, scouting and coaching staff of about 50, and the other 40 are signed veteran free agents, undrafted free agents, players from the United Football League and, of significance, recycled former practice squad players and, of significance, wide receiver Jaylen Waddle, acquired in a trade. The punter is from Australia.

In between 1962, when second coach Jack Faulkner handed out the first official playbook to the roster at camp, and 2025 the Broncos also have prepared for the season in Fort Collins (Colorado State), the team’s deplorable facility with a 60-yard field in Adams County, Pomona, Calif. (Cal Poly), Greeley (University of Northern Colorado) and, ultimately, in 2003 Dove Valley (with a half dozen different sponsors since). The current command center, named in honor of Pat Bowlen’s father Paul D. (who put up the money for his son to buy the franchise, sadly will be demolished.

The Broncos won three Super Bowls out of that building.

In 1960 the Broncos had the AFL’s poorest owner – Bob Howsam, who barely could pay the $100,000 franchise fee and sold out two years later. In 2026 the Broncos have the NFL’s richest owners – the Walton-Penner family.

From World War II used Quonset hut to the preeminent offices, locker, weight and conference rooms and practice fields more spacious than 60 yards.

The dates for training camp have not been announced officially yet, but it will be No. 52 for me since coming to Colorado. That’s a dubious record.

My favorite was 1977 after absurdly nicknaming the team “Orange Crush” because, as I wrote then, the Broncos might go to the playoffs for the first time. Rather, they played in the Super Bowl with an astonishing defense, rookie head coach Red Miller, legendary defensive coordinator Joe Collier and seemingly finished quarterback Craig Morton, who died May 9 after being responsible for the recent ’77 reunion.

My least favorite was in foggy Pomona when coach John Ralston (who had picked the weird location because he coached at Stanford) told me the Broncos would win 12 games and play in the postseason, and that I “must get behind the program or go back to where you came from – New York or wherever.’’ I never moved back to Tennessee.

My other favorites include 1983 when John Elway arrived in camp on the first day and was smothered by the media, and I instead alone interviewed sixth-round pick Gary Kubiak; John’s final season in 1998 when the Broncos were responding to their first Super Bowl victory and possessed their most superior camp roster ever; 2012 at Peyton Manning’s first camp with the Broncos when I said to him: “You finally beat Florida.” In college at Tennessee he never did, and the Broncos had traded away Florida’s Tim Tebow.

Will T.C. ’26 be among the Broncos’ best and the brightest?

Well, yes.

Hell, yes.

They solve the Gordian knot.