Miles

Sunday. Denver, Colorado. Invesco Field.

It’s the third quarter and I just got done doing a Thundervision promotion in the 500’s.  After the promo, there were a lot of people that wanted pictures and autographs, so I hung around for about 20 minutes.  We had to jet because I’m a very busy horse and I have places to be, so we’re booking down the concourse and out of no where, “BAM!” and all of the sudden it’s raining nacho chips.

I look around and I see a lady, arms positioned like she’s carrying a box of air, with a look on her face like I just chucked her first born over the side of the stadium.  I quickly put it all together and I didn’t really know what to do.  I was in a rush to get back to the field, but I couldn’t just walk away from this.  Luckily we were right by a concession stand so I cut the line (sorry folks, it was an emergency) and got her another nachos.  It wasn’t until later that I realized I had nacho cheese all up and down my arm.  So, whoever you are, I hope you enjoyed your nachos, and I apologize for spilling them, but you don’t want to get in the way of a horse that’s late.

On another note, If you have HBO you should check out Inside the NFL, your boy kicks off the Broncos/Raiders package with a nice long slomo.  It’s pretty sweet if I do say so myself.  It’s goes off at about the 1/2 hour mark for you TIVO people.

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Holy Cow!  Broomfield really IS Broncos Country.  We had another Flag Stop in Broomfield on Wednesday night and WOW!  It was easily the most attended stop so far.  Most guesses put attendance at about 3,000.  We had the usual cheerleaders, Super Bowl trophies, Billy Thompson, and of course, yours truly.

Me trying to get some love from some skeptical young fans

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Yes…kind of. This time it was to Cheyenne Wells, CO, which is just down the road (I-70) a little bit (about 3 hours east). Over the next couple of weeks we are heading to the four corners of Broncos Country to officially “plant the flag.” We’ve selected a few places that really embody and represent Broncos Country and are celebrating with the citizens. We bring with us the Super Bowl Trophies, Alumni, Cheerleaders, and of course…ME!

We leave them with their own Broncos Country flag that they will fly proudly on game day. We also have the people sign a flag that we bring back with us and display here at the stadium. Our first stop was a great one! Cheyenne Wells has about 1,200 people in it, and I swear that most of them came out to greet us. They even let the schools out of their first day to come show their Broncos pride. We met a ton of great people including the Mayor of Cheyenne Wells, Monte Baker.

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If I’m the Mariner Moose, that’s probably my first call.  I’m sure you know that I’m referring to his little “accident” involving a four-wheeler and the body of some baseball player from some team.  Apparently the player is somebody, and the team he plays for is one people really follow or something.  All I know is it involves chocolate cereal and some foot-warmers.

Now, I’ve seen the video and I’m sure you’re all waiting for me to weigh in on this.  Of course I’m going to back my furry brethren on this one.  But you also have to look at it from our perspective. 

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Like I said, we went up to Cheyenne Frontier Days on Saturday and I had a blast.  What a great event.  The Broncos fans up there don’t get to see us as much as some of you so they were totally psyched.

We did a signing, then hung out in the VIP tent (that’s how I roll!) then I messed around with the crowd at the rodeo and did a little slapstick with rodeo clowns.  This, of course, was after we made our Grand Entrance.  It was a little toasty, but the misters and a little help from fans kept me from foaming up too much.  All in all it was a great day.

Thanks to all the people from Cheyenne Frontier Days.  They really took care of us.  And thanks to all the fans that showed up, Cheyenne is DEFINITELY Broncos Country!

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That’s right, suckers!  I’m packing up the Miles Mobile and heading north!

This Saturday me and a few of my close friends are heading up to the Cheyenne Frontier Days.  We’ll be wandering around from 11am-3pm doing our thing.  In case you didn’t know, “our thing” is signing autographs, taking pictures and generally being awesome.  In case you didn’t know, “We” is are Randy Gradishar and Karl Mecklenburg along with about six cheerleaders.

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I was originally going to right an outrageous response to a blog entry that many of you may have read.  You can find the entire entry HERE.  If you don’t want to read the whole thing, basically the guy doesn’t like mascots.  Now, the guy puts a disclaimer at the top saying he’s a huge Broncos fan and that sometimes you just need to complain.  Duly noted.  I’m not saying it didn’t ruffle my feathers and I understand that some people just don’t like mascots.  So I was going to tear this guy apart (in a funny way) and maybe create a dialogue between us that people would find entertaining, but I decided that maybe he had some valid questions.  So I decided I would answer them.  Well, mainly this one:

“Why do we need this?

Is this a ploy to increase sales of mascot-related merchandise? Because I can’t see any respectable parent buying the hard back book “Mile’s Grand Adventure: a chronicle of Mile’s A-to-Z journey around the state of Colorado,” or a serious golfer shelling out $33 for headcovers in the shape of Mile’s head?”

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I know Andrew Mason already covered Fan Fair, but he didn’t spend most of the time taking pictures with fans and playing mascot football.  Fan Fair is quite the event.  It’s rare throughout the league that EVERY player and EVERY coach is available to the fans for at least a little bit over the course of two days.  Over those two days we had about 14,000 fans in the building.  Some of the lines were long, but I think most people were pleased.  A lot of people that come every year may notice the lines getting longer, but there’s nothing that can be done about that.  There are a limited number of players and coaches, and the attendance keeps going up.  Basically we are a victim of our own popularity.  Not a bad spot to be in though.  Anyways, lets get down to the nitty gritty.  Or as my grandma says the knitty gritty.

Saturday I spent most of the day signing autographs.  The first time I attempted to make about a 1/4 lap around the concourse.  I had an hour to do it (I’m a mascot, not Hidalgo-I need a break).  After about 45 mins,  I had gone approximately 20 yards.  As soon and people saw me, it was on.  Pictures, signing shirts, balls, trading cards, magazines, programs-I even signed a forehead.  I tell you, I love Broncos fans because they are so passionate, but at one point I got a little spooked.  I was surrounded on all sides with shirts, balls, programs jammed in my face.  I did my best to sign everything I could, but the reality is, there is no way I could ever sign everything.  Which means there are people that were waiting for my autograph that didn’t get it.  This really bothers me.  I REALLY try to make sure everyone is happy, and knowing that I wasn’t able to get to everyone gets to me.  So if you didn’t get an autograph, I apologize.  Heck, send me a letter and I’ll send you an autograph.

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Last Saturday I had the pleasure of taking part in Mile High Youth Productions’ Spring into Summer Youth Festival held at Devner Skate Park.  Basically it was a festival of information for kids on what things are going on in the Denver area this summer.  Everyone from the Salvation Army to the TS Skate shop were there.

It wasn’t just booths filled with pamphlets about reading programs at your local library.  There were a lot of cool things going on.  They tried to expand kids’ ideas of what’s available to them for summer activities.  If you like cars, they had classic cars on display, and people that offer internships at auto shops.  They had information on summer skateboarding camps while a couple skate teams put on demos.  They had dance troupes doing exhibitions — everything from traditional Aztec dances to traditional Mexican dances.

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OK, parents.  This is where you get to chime in with some real world advice for us mascots.

A friend of mine was at an appearance, and was signing t-shirts, when a kid comes up with a short sleeve polo shirt on.  This friend of mine decided he didn’t want to ruin the shirt (the t-shirts the others were wearing were from a camp, so it’s a safe bet that no one will have a problem with a signature on those) but he also didn’t want the kid walking away empty-handed.  So in a split-second decision, he signed the kid’s forehead.

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