Vic Fangio’s first game as an NFL head coach will be the Broncos’ last in the Black Hole.



Maybe for real this time.



The team’s previous trip to Oakland in December — one they believed would be the last NFL game ever to be played at the Coliseum — ended in misery and injury and all but sealed the end of another head-coaching tenure in Denver.



The Broncos have been mired in a three-year playoff drought with back-to-back losing seasons, a slew of dubious records and a quarterback carousel that has spun round and round, carrying four starters who are no longer on the roster. Their coaching roster has turned over twice in the past three years, with many positional groups having three, even four, assistant coaches in that span.



But 2019 figures to be different. The Broncos aimed for “different” from the outset when John Elway hired a 61-year-old, defense-minded first-year head coach in Fangio at a time when many...