Opinion | Calhoun: Wake-up Call

Photo: John Elway graffiti — in Red Hook, Brooklyn?

The Broncos may have taken a beating in that preseason game in Seattle Saturday night, but the team's Executive Vice President of Football Operations still has fans across the country. Here's proof -- an artistic endorsement of the sixteen-year team veteran and Hall of Famer that seems better suited to...
By Patricia CalhounAugust 19, 2013
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The Broncos may have taken a beating in that preseason game in Seattle Saturday night, but the team’s Executive Vice President of Football Operations still has fans across the country.

Here’s proof — an artistic endorsement of the sixteen-year team veteran and Hall of Famer that seems better suited to the Museum of Modern Art than a wall deep in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where we spotted it yesterday.

Here’s the photo.

More from the Calhoun Wake-Up Call archive: “Once again, state tourism boosters have gone back to the drawing board.”

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Patricia Calhoun is editor emeritus of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She was editor-in-chief from 1977-2026. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame (probably for her bar tab). She’s received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists, and is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS12’s public affairs roundtable.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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