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In a post yesterday headlined “Rockies’ Playoffs Run Could Last One Game, and That’s F*cked Up,” I noted that I hate the play-in game for Major League Baseball wild card teams, adding that I was confident my mind wouldn’t be changed even if Colorado’s team bested the Arizona Diamondbacks last night. Too bad I didn’t get the chance to find out. The Rockies dug themselves a 6-0 hole, and while Nolan Arenado and company fought back to within a single run late in the contest, the ‘Zona crew proved too much, ultimately winning 11-8. As such, the game joins the most heartbreaking, and just plain worst, moments in the squad’s 24-year existence.

After years of outright suckage, your Colorado Rockies made the playoffs for the first time since 2009. But their time in the spotlight could be short. The squad will take on the Arizona Diamondbacks at 6:08 p.m. Mountain time tonight, October 4, but it’s not the first meeting in a series between the two wild card entrants from the National League. Rather, it’s a single-game elimination, meaning that the Coloradans’ surprisingly strong season could be over tonight. And that’s stupid for reasons that go well beyond Rockies fandom.

The concerns of Denver Broncos fans about quarterback Trevor Siemian and kicker Brandon McManus, among others, weren’t exactly put to rest by the squad’s 16-10 victory over the Oakland Raiders yesterday, October 1. But the whining done by Raiders Nation on Twitter during and after the contest, as seen in the twenty memorable tweets on view below, made the victory taste plenty sweet anyhow.

John Elway has been active in politics for years, even using the Broncos as a springboard for his conservative ideals.

Reports that Colorado Springs-based Phil Long Dealerships sacked Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller by canceling his endorsement agreement with the firm because he took a knee during the National Anthem along with more than thirty teammates prior to a September 24 game against the Buffalo Bills were amended when sources came forward to say the pact had actually expired months ago; see our previous coverage below. But the story is more complicated than that. Turns out the Long folks did ask two local TV stations to stop airing ads starring Miller following his demonstration.

Your Denver Broncos laid an egg large enough to contain a T-Rex in a 26-16 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, September 24. But on Twitter, much of the conversation about the squad’s first road defeat of the season, following home wins over the Los Angeles Chargers and Dallas Cowboys, revolved around a jaw-dropping unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty against superstar Von Miller during the fourth quarter of the contest, when the outcome had still not been determined. See our picks for the twenty most memorable tweets here.

As we noted in our post about the top tweets tweaking Cowboys fans after Denver dismantled Dallas 42-17, the stands at Mile High Stadium definitely weren’t pure orange during the game yesterday, September 17. Cowboys boosters in the thousands turned out to witness their heroes get their ten-gallon hats handed to them by an inspired Broncos defense that rendered star running back Ezekiel Elliott impotent and a Trevor Siemian-led offense whose efficiency and effectiveness definitely raised expectations for the still-young season. The photos shared here, mostly captured by Lora Roberts, my daughter, provide a Snap-story-like look at the thrilling scene.

The Denver Broncos’ 42-17 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, September 17, has to be one of the most satisfying victories for the squad since Peyton Manning hung up his spurs. After all, perhaps as much as 30 percent of the sold-out crowd at Mile High Stadium yesterday was decked out in Cowboys regalia, and many of those in attendance lived up to Dallas fans’ rep for being the NFL’s most annoying. They were plenty boastful before the kickoff and mighty humble after the final whistle.

As we’ve reported, former University of Colorado Boulder assistant coach Joe Tumpkin was charged with five felony second-degree assault counts and three misdemeanor third-degree assault beefs earlier this year related to allegations from his onetime significant other, who says he abused her more than 100 times. Now, however, the woman in question, Pamela Fine, has filed a lawsuit against Tumpkin and several powerful figures at the university under her own name for reasons her attorney says were both personal and outward-looking.

As I noted in our roundup of the top twenty tweets about the Broncos breaking crybaby Philip Rivers’s heart again, I was fortunate enough to attend the team’s September 11 home opener versus the Los Angeles Chargers. Accompanying me was my daughter Lora, who not only purchased the tickets as the best Father’s Day gift ever but also helped me photo-document the scene.

During the nightcap of Monday Night Football’s debut for the 2017-2018 NFL regular season, your Denver Broncos found a new and exciting way to rip Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers’s heart out of his chest. And Broncos fans on Twitter took delight in his misery, hate-tweeting at Rivers before, during and after Denver’s nail-biting 24-21 victory.

Because of an injury to second-string bust-in-the-making quarterback Paxton Lynch, your Denver Broncos have signed Brock Osweiler to the team. Yes, the very same Brock Osweiler who left the squad last year in favor of the Houston Texans, mostly because he was upset that the team didn’t dump future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning in favor of him during the march to victory in Super Bowl 50. And fans haven’t forgotten, blasting him on Twitter much as they did when he signed a $72 million deal to split — and when the Broncos bested him and the Texans last October.

Darren McKee, who’s better known to listeners of 104.3 The Fan as D-Mac, wasn’t exactly an overnight success. Today, Big Al and D-Mac, the afternoon-drive show he co-hosts with former Denver Broncos great Alfred Williams, is among the highest rated programs on any metro-area radio station, as it’s been for most of the pair’s nearly eight years together. But as McKee tells us in the following in-depth interview, his career path prior to combining forces with Williams was marked by as many downs as ups, and probably more.

Instead of illegally booting nursing mothers from their seats, Coors and Sports Authority fields are joining the Pepsi Center in installing private, four-by-eight foot pods in their main concourses to give moms the option of breastfeeding in a tiny, portable room — and not in the stands.

Stan Kroenke, the polarizing billionaire owner of the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche, is in the crosshairs of controversy for launching a streaming service that shows big-game hunting to subscribers in the United Kingdom.

John Bowlen, son of Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, has been named in a Colorado arrest warrant following his weekend arrest in California for driving under the influence; see our previous coverage below. In the document, also accessible here, Arapahoe Count Judge Darren Louis Vahle counts five ways in which the younger Bowlen violated his probation for a domestic violence incident involving booze and whippets back in 2015.

On July 28, the Denver Broncos welcomed back fans to UCHealth Training Center in Dove Valley for the first of fifteen open training camp practices. And just the day before, AM 760, an iHeartMedia station, flipped its format to Orange & Blue Radio, which will be “all Broncos, all the time.” But some readers think that already describes Denver.

This morning, July 27, AM 760, an iHeartMedia station that experienced a major shakeup just over three months ago with the departure of former wide receiver turned broadcaster Ed McCaffrey, as described in our previous coverage, on view below, has undergone a format flip. The outlet’s mix of syndicated programming and local sports coverage has been revamped as Orange & Blue Radio, whose sole focus will be the Denver Broncos.

Less than a year after Denver Broncos receiver Cody Latimer was busted following an incident during which he said his girlfriend assaulted him, footage has surfaced of him getting into an altercation with employees at a strip club; Latimer was pepper sprayed and his uncle wound up up flat on his back after getting punched by an employee at the nightspot. Because Latimer wasn’t taken into custody this time around, he won’t add to the list of Broncos arrests since the year 2000, which currently stands at forty; get the details below. But the latest embarrassment definitely calls his future with the squad into doubt.

On July 15, one of Colorado’s more famous (and some might say masochistic) bicycle races is set to take place on the highest paved road in North America. The annual Bob Cook Memorial Mt. Evans Hill Climb sends cyclists 27.4 miles straight uphill from an elevation of 7,500 feet in…

Last night, July 12, former Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning hosted the 25th anniversary of the ESPYs, the signature awards program of sports-network powerhouse ESPN. Over the course of the broadcast, he made multiple comic references to his stint in Denver, even comparing himself to tennis great Serena Williams’s unborn child when talking about his 2015 Super Bowl victory.

As the climber pulled himself onto a rock shelf nearly 250 feet above the base of Eldorado Canyon, he would have looked as small as a speck to anyone below looking skyward at the imposing Bastille, a 350-foot natural formation named after the famed medieval French fortress. The climber, a…