DENVER — Sometimes, going back to the basics is better than anything modern.

The Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos played on Thursday night for a national audience. Those two teams happen to have two of the best throwback uniforms in the entire NFL. And they wore them.

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If you were of a certain age and having flashbacks of Steve Atwater hitting Steve Largent, or John Elway throwing one deep past Kenny Easley, you weren’t alone. Or alone in loving seeing the Seahawks’ original 1977 uniforms against the orange jerseys the Broncos made famous through the 1970s, 1980s and the first half of the 1990s.