Comments on: Broncos-Raiders: Early Pregame from Denver

By: lomaxgr

lomaxgr — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:12:41 +0000

MASONNNNNNN – Oh my, i use to love you, but a City fan?!?!?!? I live in Manchester, England and am i die hard Red, but i live 10 mins drive from both the City of Manchester Stadium and The Theatre of Dreams (Old Trafford), so plenty of my friends are blue. Jokes aside, im glad to see you’re a ‘soccer’ (i cant say it properly, doesn’t sound right) fan, thats two things we have in common! Ignore the troller, everyone else knows how hard you work and we all fully appreciate it. I work for my University’s paper doing the American Sports section, and that is stressful enough. Keep up the good work, and be a turncoat and turn red, you know you want to!

By: tjames238

tjames238 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:00:03 +0000

Hey Mas! How was it during that storm delay? Did it every look like the game would be called? I was watching at a buddy of mines house on the NFL Ticket. I went to check on the Chiefs game and turned back to see that the game was suspended. I had just got a nice Ribeye steak and a bowl of cocktail shrimp ready to finish watching the game. I thought they were done for the day but was happy when they started back up 24 minutes later. Tell your thoughts on the day Mas. If you have time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:41:27 +0000

I WASNT THERA AT THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111…..******************

By: AndrewMason

AndrewMason — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:39:15 +0000

humberg:

Thanks for the kind words. Unpredictability does make preparation a little tougher sometimes, though … for a game like this, you have to look at gobs of game tape … from Atlanta (because of offensive coordinator Greg Knapp, since that was his last stop), from USC, from Minnesota and/or Miami (for Daunte Culpepper), etc.

mikebirty:

We got City-Villa over here in Denver at 9 a.m., so I was able to watch while working on the morning blog and quickly downing some eggs and bacon before driving north to INVESCO Field. I agree with you about City being “lucky,” because there’s too many moments where the guys seem to be in a little bit of a fog. I knew inconsistency would be a problem by trying to put so many new parts into the machine to make it function.

Kasper Schmeichel sometimes scares me a bit back there in goal, but you can see the potential he possesses and I’m willing to chalk up some of his missteps to his youth. At this point, I think City is best served by riding him rather than turning back to Isaksson; with four clean sheets it’s hard to quibble with Kasper’s results.

With the potential at goalkeeper, Michael Johnson playing the way he is and Micah Richards hopefully signing a long-term deal, I think City is building a foundation on rock, not on sand. I’m trying not to get too excited, and the 8,000 empty seats are testament to how all of us who follow the team are still waiting to see … but I haven’t felt this good about our chances in quite a while.

By: myleshigh

myleshigh — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:53:19 +0000

and yea and more thing.

GO BRONCOS!!!!!

That was an incredibly loud yell with both fists pumping!!!!!

By: myleshigh

myleshigh — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:46:11 +0000

As far as the Biggest rival, there is only one! There are very close seconds in this race to be the most hated but the Raiders by far are the most dreaded in this Bronco household. Losing to them is just about like losing the Super Bowl, it shoots your entire week. The CHEFS (HAHA in reference to the Snickers commercial) are my second, with the Chargers coming up third and Seahawks last.

By: mikebirty

mikebirty — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:12:18 +0000

city were a bit lucky today. But they’re back above united. Looks like they’re the team to beat this year. Maybe end those 31 years of hurt. And then maybe the raiders will score 5 touchdowns on champ. And pigs will fly.

By: humberg

humberg — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:47:19 +0000

Hey Mason,

Thanks for always taking the time to keep us up to date. Most of us fans realize you run a very busy schedule and your efforts don’t go unnoticed! As far as Kiffin goes, he is young and new, and that makes him a little unpredictable. The Broncos have typicallly had issues against that type of scenario because it takes some of the game-planning out of it (which I think is our forte). At the same time, perhaps Shanahan and Co can take advantage of some youthful inexperience.

Keep up the good work and thanks! Here’s looking forward to a Bronco win today!!!