The Denver Broncos lost to the Kansas City Chiefs 18-9 in a Thursday Night Football showdown in Week 6.
That marked Denver’s 16th-straight loss to their division rival, a losing streak that dates back to the 2015 season.
With the loss, the Broncos passed the New York Jets for the longest active losing streak to a single team in the NFL. New York has lost to the New England Patriots in 15 straight games, so they’re not far behind Denver’s streak.
Both teams still have a few more seasons to go before being in danger of matching the NFL’s all-time record of 20 straight losses to a single opponent (the Miami Dolphins dominated the Buffalo Bills in the 1970s).
Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson was asked about the streak after the team’s latest loss on Thursday.
“We don’t think about it,” Wilson said. “I think we came in knowing that it was going to be a battle. The past is the past, we were focused on today. We’ve got to play them in two weeks, so we’ve got to be ready to go again.”
Denver will get another opportunity to break the streak when they host the Chiefs in Week 8. The Jets, meanwhile, will go on the road to face the Patriots again in Week 18. Both teams are chasing NFL history, just not the kind of history they wanted.
