Logo of the Denver Gold, a football team that played in the United States Football League from 1983 until 1985. The USFL was founded as a league that played in the spring, the off-season for the powerful NFL, and at first was not considered a threat to the older league. The Gold, in fact, had a good relationship with the Broncos’ NFL franchise, even hiring former Bronco coach Red Miller as its’ first head coach. Former Bronco QB Craig Morton also coached the team, which was a decent hit at the box office, leading the USFL in attendance for the entire league’s existence. The franchise was doomed when the USFL decided to try to switch to the fall and compete with the older league, and folded along with the rest of the USFL after the ’85 season.