Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Doug Widell (born September 23, 1966 in Hartford, Connecticut) was a guard who played 9 seasons in the National Football League. He was a part of the Denver Broncos Super Bowl XXIV losing team. His brother Dave Widell was his teammate at Boston College and with the Broncos. American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football.