Denver Gold

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The Denver Gold was a franchise in the United States Football League, an attempt to establish a second major professional football league in the United States, playing a springtime season. The Gold played their home games at Mile High Stadium. The Gold drew fans fairly well compared to some of the other USFL teams, and competed in all three of the USFL seasons actually contested (1983–1985). The Gold attempted to utilize some of the goodwill established by the rival NFL's Denver Broncos by involving former Broncos players and coaches in the Gold organization. The Gold were coached by former Denver Broncos coach Red Miller, and ex-Broncos quarterback Craig Morton. The Gold were also coached by Mouse Davis in 1985. Davis was one of the authors of the Run and Shoot offense.

It was announced that for the proposed 1986 fall season, the Gold would be merged with the Jacksonville Bulls, but instead they, and the USFL as a whole, were doomed by the ill-advised attempt to move the playing season to the fall in direct competition with the more established league, and the league's high-stakes anti-trust suit against the NFL, in which it was awarded only $3 and forced to fold afterwards.