Two-Sport Broncos
Sometimes when you are just sitting around thinking about players and their backgrounds, one thing leads to another and an interesting theme is developed.
In this case, I started thinking about two-sport Broncos, players (or administrators) who worked or played for the Broncos and also took a crack, however brief at another sport professionally.
Just for fun, here is what I came up with.
Tuesday Questions and Answers: Because I Love a Good Argument …Every Wednesday when Parliament is in session in London — and at other times in some other nations of the Commonwealth — noontime begins the Prime Minister’s Questions, when members of the House of Commons can query the nation’s leader about all matters, from the ones that are global in scope to more trivial and local concerns like signage along the M1.
Since Tuesday is the players’ day off here … and since this usually brings some time for me to answer questions … I’m going to bring that tradition over here to the blog. While I’ll answer as much as I can throughout the week in the comments section or on the pregame podcast — available Saturdays on DenverBroncos.com — whatever I can’t get to there, I’ll take here.
So keep your comments rolling on the blog posts, or e-mail me, as we begin another Tuesday question-and-answer session … which I will begin with the return of an old antagonist to our blog sanctum. I’m talking, of course, about LetPlummerPlay:
And since compelling drama requires antagonism … and since I love a good written scrum … I’m only too happy to dive in and respond to this individual:
Wow, it’s been a while since I stopped by old Andrew’s blog. After being reprimanded more than once by Mr. Mason, I just stuck to our infamous letplummerplay.com website.
Three words:
Let.
It.
Go.
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A Truly Freaky FridayWorking this job has taken me to a fair amount of schools in the area over the past four and a half years. But never had a trek to grammar school arisen so suddenly and unexpectedly as Friday’s jaunt through a 16-mile thicket of traffic to Columbine Elementary School on Denver’s east side.
Let’s face facts — the presence of every television station in the Denver market, along with the Rocky Mountain News, The (Colorado Springs) Gazette, the Associated Press and two representatives from our site — wasn’t because Jay Cutler was going to help students read Fox in Socks in what would become a bilingual lesson in the simple wisdom of Dr. Seuss’ works.
Before — and after — his reading lesson, Cutler acquiesced to interviews regarding the Friday morning reports on NFL.com and NFL Network regarding Jake Plummer’s future.
Cutler, however, heard news from another source — fellow Broncos quarterback Preston Parsons, who has known Plummer for nearly five years.
“Preston is the first one who told me that it’s official, Jake’s retiring,” Cutler said.
“Jake has obviously expressed interest at the end of the year that he wants to possibly move on and get away from football. I kind of always felt that he might do that. But you never know with Jake. He’s still a competitor. He’s going to miss football. You never know what’s going to happen.”
What did happen Friday was the finalization of the trade for cornerback Dré Bly.
It’s impossible to ignore the parallel shaping up in the secondary with the Broncos and the one that new assistant Jim Bates helmed in Miami for five successful seasons. Bates had a pair of Pro Bowlers on the corners in South Florida with Patrick Surtain and Sam Madison.
Between Bly and Champ Bailey, Denver’s corners possess nine Pro Bowls. With Domonique Foxworth also in the mix at cornerback, the cornerback corps now possesses the same kind of depth it had before Darrent Williams’ death on New Year’s morning.
History Trip, Notes and More …I invested a couple of hours in Broncos: The Complete History on Tuesday afternoon.
Consider it time well spent — and worth the $19.95 purchase for a Broncos fan in your life as the holidays approach, which for the narcissistic among you, could be what Alvin of the Chimpunks once spoke of: “A present — from me to me!”
The centerpiece is the documentary on Broncos history. To click “play” is to instantly transmogrify into old-school mode, with the old “D” logo used until 1996 superimposed over a shot of Mile High Stadium. Shots of Lionel Taylor, Floyd Little, Lou Saban and Marlin Briscoe flash on the screen. Saban’s famed exhortation — “They’re killing me, Whitey (Dovell), they’re killing me!” — is next. Images of Lyle Alzado, Rich “Tombstone” Jackson sacking Daryle Lamonica, Tom Jackson, Randy Gradishar and Haven Moses follow.
And all that is before the name “John Elway” is mentioned.