Payton Manning is coming to Denver

The number 18 is already retired. What original Denver Broncos QB and current octogenarian, for whom the #18 was retired, recently said that he would be fine with Manning using that number anyway?

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>  Frank Tripuka. 
He was an assistant coach with the Broncos in the first season of the AFL, but the Broncos QBs sucked, so the head coach made Tripuka their starting QB before their first game! 
He threw the AFL's first touchdown, and was the first QB in either league to throw for 3000 yards in 1 season.   <