Matt Prater’s performance against the Chicago Bears — including a 59-yard field goal to tie the game and send it to overtime, and a 51-yard game-winner in the extra frame — has earned plenty of fanfare.
It made Broncos TV’s Top 10 plays of the season, the Chicago comeback as a whole won the GMC Never-Say-Never Moment of the Year, and last night Prater took home yet another award.
His two clutch, 50-plus-yard kicks were nominated for the Top Professional Moment in the Denver Sports Top 9 Moments, presented by Bank of the West. The moments are designed to celebrate the best of sports in Colorado from 2011.
In an awards ceremony held downtown at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on March 1, Prater took home the award ahead of teammate Tim Tebow’s 20-yard, game-winning touchdown run against the New York Jets, and Colorado Rockies slugger Jason Giambi’s three-home run, seven-RBI performance against the Phillies.
Prater wasn’t in attendance to accept the award, so his holder — punter Britton Colquitt — did so on his behalf.
-Gray Caldwell
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It can not possibly be for the money. I figure Manning just simply wants to play football and being paralyzed from the neck down has not entered his thought train yet. When he gets that hit and goes down, and the doctors tell him he can’t be fixed anymore, maybe he will remember these previous 3 surgeries.
It is not an injury that can lead to paralysis. He isnt any more likely to brake his neck and be paralized than any other QB in the NFL. If it were that kind of injury he would not be alowed to play by his doctors, team doctors, or anyone in the front office.
I don’t Royalt19. I barely know how to take my own temperature so I don’t have an opinion about the injury. But, I do know that industry experts have a better understanding about general issues than the layman. And the original poster said these were a bunch of neurosurgeons/football fanatics talking about Manning.
I offered it up for a perspective from the industry experts.
Manning is going to go somewhere with weapons and a good oline. Dolphins fit the bill. Manning still wants money. Thats part of why he and the Colts couldnt redo his deal. He wasnt wanting to take the amount of money they were offering. As for the Colts sucking. They suck without Manning because the team was built for him and they didnt have a decent QB as a backup. I think itll be a while before Manning is signed but i can see him being signed right away.
FA is so close. I cant wait to see what happens.
EFX brings us Williams, Soliai and Carr!!!!!
Carr and Kirk could very well be great when Bailey does retire. I dont like Still. I hope we dont take him at 25. I really hope we can get a trade offer to move back. Kendall Reyes from UCONN is a very athletic DT and very underrated.
It all needs to hurry up.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d827703c4/article/chargers-reportedly-interested-in-signing-lb-williams
Denver go after Williams keep him out of SD!!!!!!
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