Elway leads Broncos to Super Bowl
Denver squeaks by
the Steelers 24-21 in
the AFC championship
By Alan Robinson
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — John Elway
didn’t need a fourth-quarter come
back to get back to the Super Bowl
this time.
The Denver Broncos took a 10
point lead on Elway’s two touch
down passes in the final two min
utes of the first half, then held off
turnover-stricken Pittsburgh for a
24-21 victory Sunday in the AFC
championship game.
Elway also led a tense drive in
the final minutes to keep the ball
away from the Steelers, who pulled
within a field goal on Kordell Stew
art’s touchdown pass with 2:46 left,
the only points in the second half.
One season after they couldn’t
get to the Super Bowl with home
field advantage, the Broncos
found the road there leads away
from Mile High Stadium. The vic
tory gives the 37-year-old Elway a
fourth chance to win a ring after an
eight-year wait.
The Broncos are winless in four
Super Bow Is, including their first in
1978, six years before Elway arrived.
The last two AFC championship
games in Pittsburgh went down to
the final play, just as Elway’s first
two victories in the AFC title game
in the 1986 and 1987 seasons did.
Nobody is better at game-winning
rallies than the certain Hall of
Famer, who has led 42 such come
backs in the fourth quarter.
But this time, Elway managed
the clock and his offense to perfec
tion late in the second quarter,
masterfully driving the Broncos to
two touchdowns in a span of 1:34
to put Denver up 24-14 at halftime.
Both touchdown passes came af
ter pass interference penalties,
which totaled 56 yards.
Still, Stewart nearly did it again.
He shook off three interceptions,
all of them critical, to hit Charles
Johnson on a 14-yard TD pass with
2:46 to play.
The score seemed to electrify
the Steelers and their bench, and
they held Denver to three yards on
the its next two plays.
But Elway found tight end
Shannon Sharpe over the middle
for 18 yards and the first down,
and, with only 1:52 left, Denver
had its fifth AFC championship.
Packers claim second straiaht NFC title
The Green Bay defense
held the 49ers to just 32
rushing yards on 17
carries
By Dave Goldberg
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Brett
Favre and the Green Bay defense
made the big plays. The San Fran
cisco 49ers made the big mistakes.
The result was a 23-10 Packers
victory Sunday in the NFC cham
pionship game that sends them to
San Diego, where they will play
for their second straight Super
Bowl victory, this time against the
Denver Broncos.
Favre threw for 222 yards, in
cluding a 27-yard touchdown
pass to Antonio Freeman. The
NFL’s MVP quarterback took ad
vantage of San Francisco corner
backs Rod Woodson and Marquez
Pope, the one weakness in the
49ers’ league-leading defense.
Instead, it was the Green Bay
defense, playing in rain that grew
steadier as the game wore on, that
looked like the league’s best. With
the Favre-led offense, the Packers
look invincible in a game the NFC
team has won 13 straight times.
The early line on the Super
Bowl on Jan. 25 has the Packers as
12 1/2-point favorites.
The Green Bay defense allowed
only three points — the other sev
en came on Chuck Levy's 95-yard
kickoff return with 2:52 left after
Dorsey Levens, who ran for 107
yards, made it 23-3 with a five
yard touchdown run. The Packers
played team defense as preached
by coordinator Fritz Shurmur, but
there were individual standouts.
Eugene Robinson returned an
interception 51 yards to set up the
game’s first touchdown. Gilbert
Brown, Brian Williams and
LeRoy Butler shut down the San
Francisco running game, limiting
it to 32 yards on 17 carries.
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