With all the problems afflicting the NFL right now, one of the least important involves coarse language among players on the field — including the term “nigga,” usually sanitized as the N-word. Yet the league continues to punish players for the word’s use — including, presumably, Terrance “Pot Roast” Knighton,…
As we know, expectations color perceptions, particularly in sports. Hence, the highly varied reactions to the Broncos’ 31-17 win yesterday over the New York Jets, a woeful team Denver’s top rival, the San Diego Chargers, blew out the previous week. Is the glass half-empty or half-full for Peyton Manning and…
With so much attention on the Broncos, you may have missed the start of the Denver Nuggets preseason. The team matches up tonight against the Phoenix Suns — and that means the Denver Nuggets Dancers are back in action as well. Meet the sixteen-person squad below, complete with photos and…
The Colorado Rockies are a bad joke of a Major League Baseball franchise, yet owner Dick Monfort has been extremely slow to make changes — maybe because of all the money he’s raking in from the new Coors Field party deck. But this morning brings news that general manager Dan…
Update below: The Colorado Avalanche season is gearing up after a resurgence under coach Patrick Roy — but Adrian Dater, who covers the beat for the Denver Post, won’t be doing so until later this month. He’s been suspended for two weeks without pay for sending a tweet that included…
The reactions to the Broncos’ 41-20 victory yesterday over the previously undefeated Arizona Cardinals have run the gamut. Some fans are praising the Broncos for a points explosion spurred by Peyton Manning’s 500th career touchdown pass and a career-high 479 yards through the air, while others grouse that the win…
There are folks who consider climbing all of Colorado’s fourteeners a life’s work. Then there’s a small, hardy corps of peak-baggers who compete with one another to nail those babies all at once, in the shortest amount of time; the current record runs at about ten days. And then there’s…
Hard to believe, but it was around this time just three years ago that Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow’s chosen way of celebrating a touchdown — lowering himself to one knee in prayer — became a national phenomenon dubbed Tebowing. Today, Tebow is long gone from Denver and on-the-field play…
It’s been a rough September for the University of Colorado. First the Buffs football team lost to their now arch-rivals, the Colorado State University Rams, in the annual early-season battle at Sports Authority Field, and then the entire school fell off Playboy’s yearly list of the biggest party schools in…
Broncos fans definitely aren’t predictable. After last week’s narrow victory over the Chiefs, plenty of Denver loyalists took to Twitter to declare that the Broncos suck even though they were 2-0. But following yesterday’s 26-20 overtime loss to the Seahawks, most tweets were upbeat because Denver lost a nail-biter, as…
Ever since Peyton Manning bought a slew of Papa Johns franchises, meme makers have linked the purchase to Colorado’s legalization of marijuana — and now Manning has, too. In an interview with MMQB’s Peter King, he said, “There’s some different laws out here in Colorado. Pizza business is pretty good…
If you’re a Denver Broncos fan, then you’ve no doubt endured a broadcast featuring either NBC’s Chris Collinsworth or Phil Simms, who calls games for CBS. Both have earned the enduring hatred of Broncos fans over the years because of what some would say is a clear bias against the…
Last week, as we reported, 104.3 The Fans’ D-Mac and Alfred Williams argued that the alleged rape committed by ex-Bronco Perrish Cox was actually worse than the actions of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, whose caught-on-video punching of his former fiancee/now-wife turned him into the NFL’s domestic violence…
Talk about high expectations. The Broncos won yesterday’s game against the Chiefs to go 2-0 in the young NFL season, yet the way they did it — eking out a last-minute 24-17 victory after nearly giving up a big lead, just like in last week’s season opener against the Colts…
The scandal over the release of a video showing Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice brutally punching his ex-fiancee/now-wife continues to build, with the NFL currently scrambling to deal with reports that a league rep received a copy of the clip in April despite claims that no one in the office…
It’s fair to say the post-Super Bowl blowout malaise that afflicted so many Broncos fans earlier this year is over: Prior to Denver’s closer-than-it-should-have-been victory over the Indianapolis Colts, tailgaters at Mile High Stadium were incredibly amped for the new season, as our Eric Gruneisen discovered. Continue to check out…
Denver native Chauncey Billups, who placed very high on our list of the ten best athletes to be born in Colorado, has announced his retirement from the NBA after seventeen years — and the Nuggets, with whom he played during two separate stints, should take advantage of his availability by…
Hope you didn’t wind up in intensive care after the Broncos’ 2014 regular season debut last night. The team looked like world beaters in the first half, running up a 24-0 lead thanks to the heroics of Peyton Manning and Julius Thomas, then nearly gagged the victory away thanks to…
Those of us who live in Colorado tend to think of the Broncos as the NFL team with the best fans. But that’s not how Forbes sees it. The publication’s top ten ranking definitely includes Denver, as well as the Indianapolis Colts, who face our local heroes Sunday night to…
On Sunday night, the Broncos start the 2014 NFL season with a nationally broadcast home challenge against quarterback Peyton Manning’s old team, the Indianapolis Colts — and these samples from the Denver Broncos Memes Facebook page should get you ready for the game and the season quicker than a twelve-pack…
Looks like Broncos receiver Wes Welker will have more time to recover from his latest concussion; he’s been suspended for four games after reportedly testing positive for amphetamines. Welker’s not alone. He’s the second Bronco so far this year to violate the NFL’s substance abuse policy (kicker Matt Prater was…
At Friday’s Rocky Mountain Showdown, I was decked out in CU attire, since my daughters are students there. And when passing through the Rams’ section of the parking lot, I tended to get one of two reactions. The first was: “Fuck you! Fuck CU!” And the second was “FUCK YOU!…
