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Legacy Game Sparks Memorable Weekend

October 8th, 2009 - 5:02pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by jim_saccomano

This is going to be a fun weekend for the Broncos and their fans.

The Broncos will host the tremendous New England Patriots (this week going as the Boston Patriots because the two clubs are playing in an American Football League Legacy game), and the game itself is plenty.

But this week, that seems like just the beginning. Both teams are going all out in celebration of the AFL. Some fans might say, “so what” to the AFL, properly noting it was a long time ago.

Well, most of us were born a long time ago also, and if we hadn’t been we would not be reading this.

Same for the AFL. No AFL, no pro football in Denver and no Denver Broncos.

Just a few things that will mark the weekend at INVESCO Field at Mile High.

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Cornell Green - A Quiet Legend

September 30th, 2009 - 9:57am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by jim_saccomano

With the Broncos playing the Dallas Cowboys this week, I was thinking, who is the most notable ex-Cowboy to have a great influence on the Broncos?

To me, that’s an easy one. It’s Cornell Green.

Now, many fans will say, who the heck is Cornell Green? The answer is, a big time contributor to the Broncos now and for many years in the past, and a huge part of Dallas Cowboys history as well.

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Colorful Season At Home

September 29th, 2009 - 2:16pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by jim_saccomano

This season is shaping up as the most diversified in terms of uniforms and colors in Denver Broncos history.

Teams are allowed to wear their alternate (third) jersey a max of three times, one in preseason and two in the regular season. That’s good news for Bronco fans who can’t get enough orange, as the locals will wear it three times out of the 10 regular and preseason home games.

But then, in addition to the blue that marks the standard Bronco uniform, Denver will dip back, way back, in time and wear the Broncos’ original 1960 uniform when the Broncos host the Boston (for that game, Boston) Patriots in one of the American Football League matchups this year. That means gold (really, a mustard yellow) home jersey, seal brown pants and helmet, no logo, just a uniform number of the helmet, and of course the legendary, infamous vertically striped gold and brown socks.

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Happy Birthday to the NFL

September 17th, 2009 - 4:23pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by jim_saccomano

Today, the National Football League is 89 years old.

The NFL was formed on this date, September 17, 1920, at a Hupmobile dealership in Canton, Ohio.

The teams on that date came from four states—Akron, Canton, Cleveland and Dayton from Ohio; the Hammond Pros and Muncie Flyers from Indiana; the Rochester Jeffersons from New York; and the Rock Island Independents, Decatur Staleys, and Racine Cardinals from Illinois.

The name of the league at that time was the American Professional Football Association.

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Cincinnati Connections

September 9th, 2009 - 9:19am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by jim_saccomano

A new opening day to another National Football League season is upon us, but a familiar opponent looms for the Denver Broncos.

The Denver Broncos and Cincinnati Bengals have a long history, going back to when both teams were members of the American Football League.

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Floyd Little

August 25th, 2009 - 12:31pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by jim_saccomano

You had to be there back in the day to know how much Floyd Little meant to the Denver Broncos.

You had to see him, watch him, hear him to appreciate his play and his leadership.

He had a lot of things going against him at a young age, not a lot of money, family fighting to make it, and AFTER high school he went to a military school, Bordentown Academy, and he became not a man, but a man among men.

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The Marathon Hasn’t Even Begun

August 24th, 2009 - 4:35pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by jim_saccomano

The 2009 National Football League season begins for the Denver Broncos on Sunday, September 13.

But for the orange-blooded fanatics who support the team, passion never rests and the interest is intense from the first stretching of training camp.

So for that reason alone the city is loaded with everything from angst to apoplexy to genuine concern. But that’s how it is with Bronco fans. The one thing everyone has to be cautioned about is that it is not only early in the marathon race that the NFL represents, but it has not started at all yet.

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Colorful Year at INVESCO Field at Mile High

August 4th, 2009 - 11:29am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by jim_saccomano

Denver Broncos fans will see the most colorful uniform variety in team history for the home games at INVESCO Field at Mile High this year.

Of course, the team’s primary home uniform remains the dark blue jersey and white pants.

By now fans are well aware of the fact that the Broncos are celebrating their 50th season of play and the American Football League this year. As a result, Denver will don the notorious 1960 uniform, featuring seal brown pants and helmet, gold jersey (kind of a mustard yellow), and the infamous gold and brown vertically striped socks.

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