A Brief Respite …With the Combine coming up later this month and the free-agency and pre-draft buildup to follow, I’m taking a few days to relax, so posts aren’t as frequent right now.
Talk to you soon, and if you have a sweetheart, make sure you treat that special someone right on Valentine’s Day. This means DVRing, TiVoing or recording any sporting event you might plan to watch that night and taking that significant other to dinner or, better yet, making something yourself.
Vaya con dios.
AFE Tour PicturesGood day, everyone!
All of the below are just a few images of our Armed Forces Entertainment tour. A combination of photos from the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, a traditional sushi dinner in Okinawa, Anderson Air Force Base, our sky-diving adventure and a few more.
As I have shared, this tour was incredible, our troops are phenomenal heroes and for their dedicated service we are forever indebted.
God Bless!
Keela Harris
Surprise Visitor!As I was returning from lunch today I was pleasantly surprised to find Domonique Foxworth (our 2007 Denver Broncos Man of the Year) at our office–just stopping by to say hi. Domonique has been such a wonderful player ambassador for our department and the Broncos Boys and Girls Club. It is always great to see him and get a chance to catch up–especially in the off season. Otherwise, we have to be satisfied reading his entertaining blog just like everyone else to find out what he is up to.
We chatted for a good while about the team, the teens at the Club and went over some designs from a local company–Performance Graphics–that will be painting a special mural featuring Darrent Williams at the new Darrent Williams Memorial Teen Center. Our entire department, along with Domonique and fellow teammate Nate Jackson have been working with the teens and Rick of Performance Graphics to come up with a very inspiring piece of art.
So Domonique and I chatted a bit as we looked everything over, he ran a couple of things by Champ over the phone (Champ was in Hawaii preparing for the Pro Bowl) and incorporated Nate’s imput through a few emails and now are all set to move forward with the mural.
What an exciting and productive Thursday afternoon! Anyways, Domonique says hi to Broncos Country…looking forward to updating you again soon!
Broncos Could Be in Good Hall EraOne of the most gratifying moments of Super Bowl week for fans of the Denver Broncos was the announcement that tackle Gary Zimmerman had been selected for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Zim is absolutely one of the greatest offensive linemen in pro football history, as his selection to the all-decade teams of both the 1980’s and the 1990’s clearly attests.
He had to wait a couple of years longer even than he should have, but there is no question that the voters got it right in naming him to the game’s most hallowed halls.
As great as the news was about Zimmerman, it was just as disappointing that all-time great Randy Gradishar did not get selected.
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Through the Roster: Mike Bell
When you’ve waited over two months to carry the football, and when you’ve been in a sweatsuit during six of the previous seven games, the one thing you can’t do is fumble. when you finally get the football.
Lamentably for Mike Bell, that’s precisely what happened in Week 12 at Chicago’s Soldier Field, and the bobble confirmed what was apparent — that a dream season as a rookie had morphed into a nightmare in Year Two.
The feel-good story that defined his 2006 success as an undrafted rookie belonged to Selvin Young a year later — that of the undrafted, overlooked draft prospect who played like a first-day selection.
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Super Bowl/Hall of FameWell I’ve been eating crow all week and finally decided to admit it. The New York Giants brought it and were the better team by far. I was amazed how flat the Patriots were and we talked about the Super Power all year long and BOOM!!! — they explode.
I can’t understand how you play so emotionless in a Super Bowl. I’m not a Giants fan by any means for selfish reasons, they cost me a World Championship ring and we ran out of time in Super Bowl XXI, that’s all. :o)
Ahhhhh, they were the better team that day too and Phil Simms made a career day out of one game. Can you tell I’m still bitter, yep!!
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Super Bowl Experience Always GreatI must begin this blog with apologies to all readers who might have expected more communication over the past two weeks.
I worked on the NFL PR staff for Super Bowl XLII in Phoenix, and I had the best of intentions to blog while there and comment on what went on, but the combination of my workload and some technological complications prevented any blogging.
Probably to the reader’s benefit, but that’s another matter.
It was my 24th Super Bowl, so I certainly should have known better than to think I would have any free time.
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Through the Roster: Jordan Beck
As the regular season dawned, Jordan Beck was unemployed and headed for a six-week stint in which he went through eight tryouts.
“It was some kind of world record,” he wanly acknowledged.
But as the season faded, he was one of the Broncos’ leading special teamers, placing himself in position to compete for playing time at linebacker next season.
Beck finished second on the team in total special-teams tackles last season in spite of playing in just 11 games; his 10 stops — eight solo with two assists — placed him just one behind Jamie Winborn.
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A Couple of Super Bowl Thoughts, and Predictions …It’s Super Sunday.
T-minus three hours or so to kickoff.
And, I’ll be honest, I’m not watching the pregame show.
It’s testament to the prominence of the sport that Fox can justify four and a half hours of pregame content, which doesn’t even factor what airs on ESPN and NFL Network throughout the day. But by this time, I’ve heard virtually everything there is to hear about this game. I need to step away.
I mentioned this to my mother, who is back home on the couch with my father, watching college basketball. By backtracking through our Super Sundays as a family, we realized that more often than not, we’d built up to the big game with other games, rather than chatter.
Besides, I’ve wasted so much time stewing over this game and my prediction for it that I’ve ensured a long post-game night of catching up with tasks and obligations that await here at my desk.
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