Orange Denver and Green Bay play Sunday night in another momentous game. Pat Bowlen will be honored in absentia, but his strength and spirit will envelop the stadium.

The Broncos’ guardian always has been addressed affectionately as “Mr. B” — Bowlen — by everyone in the organization.

In reality, “Mr. B” stands for Mr. Bronco.

Mr. Bronco has been overseeing the Broncos during the past four of the franchise’s six decades. He detested the word “owner,” he once told me, because the Broncos actually belong to the people of Denver and Colorado, and he was entrusted to respect and protect that public trust doctrine.

Mr. Bronco will be inducted into the Broncos’ Ring of Fame at halftime of the historically appropriate contest, but he can’t be at the stadium. Mr. B is suffering in mental darkness from the horrific Alzheimer’s disease.

But, if he were at the game, Mr. Bronco wouldn’t be interested in that Ring thing. The only ring he ever wanted from football was the World Championship Ring.

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In late January 1998, at the team’s hotel in La Jolla, Calif., I asked Pat if we could talk. He invited me up to the presidential suite. Before I could ask a question, he sat at the room’s desk, pledged me to secrecy, pulled out, and opened, two jewelry boxes.

“Here is the championship ring I’ve designed, and this is the necklace we’ll give to all the wives,” Mr. Bronco said proudly.

The ring was pure gold, centered by the Broncos (then new) logo, with a large-carat diamond inside the horse’s head, surrounded by approximately 50 small diamonds.

I was duly impressed, but “Pat, you’re two-touchdown underdogs to the Packers … and there’s Brett Favre.”

“We’re going to win.”

“You always say that.”

“I’m sure about this one.”

“If you do win, what will you say at the championship presentation?”

“I know, but I’m not telling anybody.”

After the victory, Mr. Bronco held up the Vince Lombardi Trophy and shouted: “I only have four words: This one’s for John.”

The Broncos fell behind 7-0 because of that Favre guy. Denver led at halftime, but the game was tied at 17, then at 24 with less than two minutes left.

Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego was a classic, with more memorable lines than the movie “Casablanca.”

• Terrell Davis forgot to take the medication to prevent the serious migraine headaches that had stricken him since childhood growing up in, ironically, San Diego.

In the first half, T.D. developed a migraine, which caused him near blindness, and told trainer Steve Antonopulos, who informed coach Mike Shanahan the running back couldn’t play. Shanahan called Davis over and told him to go back in the game. “I can’t see,” Davis said.

Shanahan said: “I don’t need you to see or run. I need you to sell the fake.”

John Elway faked to Davis and rolled in from the 1-yard line for a touchdown and a 14-7 lead.

Davis took his medication at halftime, and his sight and his game returned. He finished with 157 yards rushing and three touchdowns — and the MVP award.

• Elway completed only 12 passes but forever will be remembered in NFL lore for “The Helicopter.” Late in the third quarter (17-17), the Broncos confronted third-and-6 at the Pack 12. Shanahan called a pass play, but Elway wasn’t so certain when he studied the defense. Nobody was open, so John had to scramble. He was no longer a runner at age 37. At the 6-yard line, The Duke was confronted by LeRoy Butler, who was loading up. After peeking at the first-down marker on the sideline, the quarterback flew into the air; Butler hit him with a jolting, glancing blow and spun John around, and Mike Prior blasted him. John landed at the 4. First down. The Broncos would score the go-ahead touchdown, and the players were inspired by “The Helicopter.”

• Packers coach Mike Holmgren ordered his players to let the Broncos score from the 1-yard line with 1:45 left so Favre would have a last chance to drive and tie at 31.

• The Packers reached the Broncos’ 31. On third-and-6, Favre threw incomplete to Robert Brooks with 32 seconds remaining. On the play, Steve Atwater and Randy Hilliard collided, and both were knocked out — and knocked out of the game. On fourth down, Favre’s pass to Mark Chumura was knocked down by linebacker John Mobley. The Broncos won.

“Most monumental moment of my career,” Elway has said to me. “I’ve never had such a feeling of gratification like that.”

• The referee was Ed Hochuli.

• Seven Broncos players from that game are in the Ring of Fame. Three others should be.

• The Broncos won their first Super Bowl after four losses. They would win again the next season.

• And, of course, Mr. B produced the most profound statement in Super Bowl history.

The Broncos and the Packers play on.

In tribute to Pat Bowlen, to heighten awareness for Alzheimer’s research, to commemorate Super Bowl 32, all Broncos fans in the stadium should wear an orange lapel ribbon.

And the Broncos will win this one for Mr. Bronco, 31-24.

Woody Paige: woody@woodypaige.com or @woodypaige