Now the Broncos offensive line has even more reason to put defenders on their backs.
For every pancake block the offensive line makes this season, Zane Beadles will donate $250 to Brent’s Place as part of his “Cakes for Cancer” program.
Beadles’ inspiration for the program came while playing at the University of Utah, when he met a 7-year-old boy named Ryker, who was stricken with Glioblastoma Multiforme cancer.
The Utes adopted Ryker as a member of the team, but about a year later, he lost his battle with cancer.
“I knew I wanted to do something with cancer and something with kids,” Beadles said. “I just looked around the area and found Brent’s Place. I learned about them and what they do and it seemed like a perfect fit. That’s how it kind of came about.”
Brent’s Place operates two hospital hospitality houses — one near Denver’s Presbyterian Saint Luke’s Hospital with six apartments primarily for adults with cancer and their families, and one adjacent to Aurora’s Anschutz Medical Campus with 16 apartments primarily for children with cancer and their families.
The new facility also includes social and activity spaces, a meeting room, commercial kitchen, library, exercise room, and an outdoor play space designed specifically for immune-compromised children.
“Specifically, the money raised by Zane will be used to provide specialized housing for pediatric cancer patients who have been required to temporarily relocate to Denver, along with their families, to receive life-saving medical treatments,” Brent’s Place Executive Director Sean Meyerhoffer said in a statement.
The program is important to Beadles, whose family has also been affected by cancer. He said the rest of the offensive line has taken up the cause, as well, allowing for a little extra excitement while watching tape.
“We have fun with it when we watch the film, just counting (the pancake blocks) up,” he said.
So far, the line has accumulated four pancake blocks through the first two games of the season.
Tags: Cakes for Cancer, Zane Beadles
Now not only games are won in the trenches, lives are saved too. That is an amazing initiative. Nice way of giving back! That is top notch.
Hope more follow in your example.
Congratulations!
Go Broncos! Beat the Titans
Nice going Beadles.
Pancake block:
A ‘pancake’ block is a term used to describe when a player, usually an offensive linemen, tight end or fullback makes an excellent block and takes the defender out of the play completely, leaving him usually on his back.
Well I don’t think we score more than 24 however, I think the the B-men come away with a victory 24-17. Hasselbeck is not good under pressure..as is true with alot of QBs I suppose but I think if we are in his face alot and can contain Johnson as we did last year we have a good chance of winning.
Broncos 24
Titans 17
I will be sporting my brand new Von Miller game jersey tomorrow. Woo Hoo!!!
I have a new knickname for Beadles…………..IHOP!!!
Bring on the pancakes buddy!!!! All the way to a Broncos VICTORY!!
Broncos: 27
Titans: 24
Code Orange. Apparently the Titans org has asked their fans to wear all light blue on Sunday calling the occasion “Code Blue” I’m calling a “Code Orange” making them feel insignificant in their foo foo blue.
IHOP….Love it!!!
IHOP from position to position because I can’t play any real well, haha.
Congrats to Beadles for giving to the cause,and getting the entire Oline to donate too is a really great thing,I’d like to see more players doing things like this,I know a LOT of players have stuff going on like this,but as much dough as they make there could be a lot more!
GO BEADLES!!!
GO BRONCOS!!
T.G.I.F.
IHOP…. UHOP…. Let’s hope Beadles gets a pancake flop LOL!
LMAO@bay!!!
LMAO@rbf1
IHOP, good one!
raidrhadr,Hasslebeck threw for over 300 yards against the Ravens,who have a better Defense than we do,I watched the game,Hasslebeck to Brit is a BAD connection for our depleted secondary!
T.G.I.F. – BFE!
Kudos to Beadles, Maybe this will motivate him to actually get pancakes.
For a second I was scared cuz all I saw when i read the headline was “beadles” and “Cancer” … I was about to be like, damn. But im glad for his sake that what I thought at first glance, isn’t truly what the article is about. TRB
BFE I’m aware of what they have going on. Nate Washington is a factor too so Goody better be on his toes. I’m not saying the Titans don’t have a good thing started but I will say that the Ravens had a bad day at the office. I think if you replay that game 10 times the Ravens win 9 out of 10.
Goody or Vaughn or whoever lands with Washington in front of him.
foo foo blue and ihop… good stuff.
I know it ain’t gonna happen………..
but wouldn’t it be something if KC marched into SD and squeked out a W? That would make me very happy!!
Dreams can come true, right?
I think the Raiders go to 2-1 this week too………Jets will lay an egg on the road in the black hole………..and this is Oaklands home opener so they’ll be jacked. But let’s hope that doesn’t happen and the Jets win……as much as I hate saying that, it’s the lesser of two evils.
kinda quiet here now………..must be lunchtime for a lot of you.
Great stuff guys! LOL! IHOP, UHOP, …..stupid but hilarious! LOL!
VonDoom’s presence has to be felt..PERIOD!
My fear is that if we don’t get to Matt and he begins to find even a little chemistry with his WR’s…we’re going to get into that nasty “pass interference” hole that I’ve seen before simply because we can’t defend in the secondary.
PLEASE DO NOT give them a short field and automatic first downs. Britt will jump and go get it so a steady pass rush and forcing Matt to release faster and sooner has got to be the dial up!
No brain stuff I know, just feel better saying it LOL!
So with a diet pepsi toatst;
Broncos 24
other team 20
GO GET EM’ BOYS!
Sorry…meant diet pepsi toast
Doom out.
Oh man, Doom is out for Sunday’s game?
where did this info about doom come from?
Lloyd probable, everyone else questionable.
Got a chance to watch some Mike & Mike and some Sports Center this morning. I don’t have cable at home btw, hate TV honestly.
They talked a lot about the Packers v Bears rivalry and how any NFL rivalry today is just not worth it’s salt unless both teams are competitive. Maybe this is why the Raider v Broncos has not been talked up much save the few of us here on the blogosphere?
well, questionable is not ruled out…………….so I guess we’ll wait and see on gameday.
Dumervil has been ruled out. DJ, Champ, and Moreno are questionable.
Worst part is both Champ and Moreno are hammies, gotta be careful not to bring them back too soon.
Stevecan2….
I’ll tell ya what? Chicago is going to get destroyed Sunday! Here in Illinois whenever I talk to people about this game, you know they all say? “Well Chicago always gets up for Green Bay!”
Really? that’s what you are going to hang your hat on? LOL!
If New Orleans can put 30 on you and the best you can do is 13…what do you think Rogers and that defense is going to do….AND…..Chicago like Denver is plagued with injuries……
GO GET EM’ BOYS!
I just want Tebow to play.
Man, I hope Doom isn’t one of these players who is always hurt…….UGHHH!
I just wanted to know what it felt like to write such a pathetic post. Felt like I was a loser and not really a fan of the team, about what I expected.
Go Broncos
Yep,Arian Foster tweeted he would be back after his Hammy injury,and whadda you know,he tweeked it again,now he’s out for a while,remember last year or the year before Champ kept tweeking a Hammy it bothered him all season,so NO big rush bringing him or Moreno back too fast!!!
Didn’t Moreno have a problem with his hammy his rookie season and last season as well or maybe that is Champ I’m thinking of last season with is hammy.
Bring back Lenny Walls, Glynn Milburn, Allen Aldridge, Anthony Miller, and Ma’a Tanuvasa for these yahoo’s.
i remember an old dumb joke.
Which went like this,
What do you call a person with only one leg? IHOP
I dont consider this bad. My sister befor she passed away from cancer, and only had one leg, told me this one.
brian,I think he did,pretty sure!
Injury Report
D. Thomas-out
J. Thomas-out
E. Royal-out
M. Thomas-out
C. Bailey-questionable
D.J. Williams-questionable
K. Morino-questionable
E. Dumerville-out
B. Lloyd-probable
WOW, what a list. Fox stated that “hopefully do the same as we did last week” when asked by reporters with all these out what was he going to do? Smart question from a reporter! daaaa what would Fox say?
It looks like DJ and Elvis both practiced today. As of 1130 MST.
Lloyd and Moreno are expected to be back in the lineup.
Champ is likely out.
That’s Lindsay Jones reporting at 1139 MST
Yea, I just took this list from his interview with reporters after practice that is posted on the main page.
We’re talking 9 injuries. That is a lot. lock-out woes…
What’s going on with Elvis? Obviously something serious is going on and they aren’t letting on.
So much for the vaunted VonDoom! Guess it’s next man up again…
Nine starters at that. It’s more than just some lockout woes.
I guess 8. D Thomas may not be considered a starter. Though you would expect that from the 1st wideout taken in the draft class. Sigh…
We figured a long time ago that they are not as transparent as they think they are. They continue to keep us in the mushroom cave. This is probably more of the same.
I would like to see these guys go out Sunday and earn about 10k for that charity. That would be awsome, not to mention sending Tenn. packing!