Jim Saccomano

According to the Wall Street Journal, December 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of blogging.

What began as — what? No one had ever done this before, and now it is in a period of exponential growth which marks blogging as being on the verge of legitimate journalistic enterprise.

And the key word there is enterprise.

What blogging has done is allow anyone with an opinion to express it.

News organizations often make use of their reporters as bloggers, and we have embraced it here at the Denver Broncos, including the recent addition of General Manager Ted Sundquist.

Competition should never be discouraged, and news organizations do not have a monopoly on thought or expression. Businesses and sports teams know a lot about their product, ususally more than outsiders, and the more they tell people about how things work, the more they let outsiders in, the greater degree of understanding they potentially can gain from interested parties.

(more…)

That loss to the Chicago Bears Sunday already has had just about every adjective imaginable attached to it, and it is time that we all agree to move forward.

Whether we want to or not, we have to want to; moving forward is the only course of action in any type of event.

And while the frustration felt by every member of the organization and by every true Broncos fan is real and true, we can’t let our lives be controlled by that frustration. All that does is get in the way of our view of reality, and that is where we all ultimately must place our collective focus.

This has been a disappointing season, but it is not over.

And because it is not over, we all have to agree that we do not know how it is going to end. We know it will end, but we don’t know how.

(more…)

On Thanksgiving Day, I suspect that even the most football crazed fan (I think I have accurately captured Broncos fans with this description) is thinking more about turkey than this blog.

However, just on the odd chance that you are giving it a quick read, I thought Thanksgiving Day football would be a legitimate topic.

And on that score, I remember the Titans.  No, not the fine Denzel Washington movie, and not the Tennessee Titans whom the Broncos defeated Monday night, but the original football Titans, the New York Titans of the American Football League.

Those lucky enough to have watched the AFL—and I am certainly among that group–will love it forever.

It was a wild and crazy offense minded league that gave us a tremendous rush of offensive football, changing the way many fans looked at the sport and the way those fans wanted to watch it in the future.

(more…)

I still can’t get used to the term “blogging.” I don’t know its origins, but I definitely like what it is, what it represents. But it is here, and that’s why I think it is vital that the Broncos and other teams be at the forefront of embracing it.

Fans want to comment, and read as much inside comment as possible about their favorite teams. There is no better place for that information flow to begin than from within the team itself.

Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, and while the expressions of experts in various fields is never de-valued, so too must it be said that those people do not have a monopoly on opinion.

And sometimes the greatest expert of all is the one who chooses to say the least, who prefers to work quietly behind the scenes.

With that in mind as an absolute concept, it is fascinating to welcome our newest blogger to the Denver Broncos’ web site, General Manager Ted Sundquist.

(more…)

With the Denver Broncos set to host the Tennessee Titans in Denver’s second home Monday night game of the 2007 season, and the second of three overall appearances –the Broncos also will play a Monday night contest at San Diego on Christmas Eve – it brings back lots of memories about playing on the national stage.

But one of my deepest memories along these lines has to do with the Broncos’ very first appearance on Monday Night Football, then an ABC production that featured Howard Cosell when he was in his prime as a celebrity journalist.

Many would say more celebrity than journalist, and it is real hard to argue with that assessment.

Monday Night Football has been part of the landscape of American society for the better part of four decades, and fans today have to strain to remember how it was once upon a time.

Most fans cannot, in fact, because they were too young then.

Denver had the Broncos, but the nation didn’t care. 

(more…)

When a person, a place or a thing can be summed up with one word, you know there is a great status conveyed by those having the discussion.

When a pro football player or fan says, “Arrowhead,” it conjures up a loud stadium nestled in a sea of red.

Over my 30 years in the National Football League I have watched Kansas City’s home stadium go from a place where the visiting teams won regularly to one that is considered by many the most feared and intimidating venue in pro football.

The Chiefs’ home record bears that out of course, but the fans have a high degree of ownership in that record as well.

(more…)