Today's Super Bowl is not the first postseason meeting between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos.
From 1977 through 2001, the Seahawks were in the American Football Conference's Western Divsion and, beginning in 1978, they played the Broncos twice each season. In 2002, the Seahawks returned to the National Football Conference's Western Division.
Seattle's first-ever playoff game came following the 1983 season, as they hosted Denver in an AFC Wild-Card game and the Seahawks dominated the Broncos, who used a rookie quarterback, 31-7 at the Kingdome.
The Seahawks went on to knock off the Miami Dolphins at the Orange Bowl 27-20. The Dolphins had recently switched quarterbacks and ended up with a rookie as starter.
Seattle's playoff adventure ended in the AFC title game in Los Angeles, falling to the Raiders, who two weeks later, routed the defending champions Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII.
You'd probably be right if you guessed that the rookie quarterbacks who started against the Seahawks in Seattle first two playoff games were, respectively, Hall of Famers John Elway and Dan Marino.
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