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Broncos Face AFL Rival in Big Game

December 21st, 2011 - 8:35am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

With two weeks to go in the 2011 National Football League regular season Denver Broncos fans are aware that two wins punch the Broncos’ ticket into the playoffs. One win, in the right situation combining with losses by others, can do the same thing.

And the first of our remaining two opponents is Buffalo, in Buffalo.

I always like the idea of the Broncos playing the Buffalo Bills. Certainly, they are a tough opponent, playing before their usual rabid home crowd, so my feeling is not that they are any easier than anyone else.

I just like it anytime the Broncos play against an original American Football League team, one of the franchises that came into pro football at the same time as the Broncos.

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The Tebow Phenomenon

December 1st, 2011 - 1:26pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

I have been with the Denver Broncos for 34 years and in pro sports for 37, and in that extensive time span I have seen a lot.

People often ask, “Have you ever seen anything like this before?” The answer is no, and I always add that the reason for this is not that I have not been paying attention—it is just that no one has seen anything like this before.

I am not going to sit here at this keyboard and pretend to project accomplishment and development—we do not know the future other than to say it sure looks positive right now.

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Fans Have Plenty to Celebrate

November 29th, 2011 - 7:53am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

The 2011 holiday season is giving the vast multitudes of Denver Broncos plenty to celebrate as the team is far ahead of the dismal preseason predictions of pro football pundits.

This is not written as criticism of what seemed at the time to be logical projection, but serves once again as a reminder that all preseason predictions are predicated on the previous year’s performance.

New year, new leadership and coaching, new results. Or maybe, we should say, new half year.

For all the dramatic developments the Broncos have made this year have come since the team was 1-4, a time frame when Head Coach John Fox acknowledged that he and the coaching staff was stilling getting to know the team. Looks like the “getting to know you” phase is moving along very well.

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AFC West is Wide Open

November 7th, 2011 - 3:05pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

The Denver Broncos Sunday posted a stirring come-from-behind 38-24 win over the Oakland Raiders at the Coliseum, better known and forever regarded as the Black Hole.

On the same day that San Diego and Kansas City both lost, the AFC Western Division race is now a three-way tie among those three guys, with the Broncos just one game out.

And forget all the logic about this team, that team……just forget it. It belongs to whichever team winds up first, whether by wins or tiebreakers.

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‘The Beauty of Football’

October 24th, 2011 - 2:26pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

Sometimes it is hard to get your hands going on the keyboard for a blog entry when you are not quite sure where and how to begin, and where and how to end.

So sometimes, the facts just have to get spit out and we all agree that the judgments will have to come later.

This is one of those times.

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Why Rod Smith is a Hall of Famer

September 29th, 2011 - 12:53pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

Earlier this week the Pro Football Hall of Fame released its preliminary list of candidates for induction in 2012.

There are 102 candidates on this list, which will be whittled down to 25 in mid-November, then to the final list of 15 which will be voted on by the selection committee the Saturday before the Super Bowl in Indianapolis.

Everyone on this list has had notable accomplishments. That’s how they made the list. On the list for the first time is wide receiver Rod Smith.

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400th Win Target of Broncos

September 21st, 2011 - 9:16am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

The next regular season win for the Denver Broncos will be the team’s 400th in its history.

That is a lot of wins for a team that started off its existence at the bottom of the rag bag of the American Football League.

This week’s opponents, the Tennessee Titans, began life and play as the Houston Oilers, and the other six original AFL teams were the Boston (now New England) Patriots, Buffalo Bills, New York Titans (now Jets), Los Angeles (now San Diego) Chargers, Dallas Texans (now the Kansas City Chiefs), and the Oakland Raiders.

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Broncos Launch Digital Historical Database

September 9th, 2011 - 11:51am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

We have always tried to keep the Denver Broncos at the forefront of everything technological. In the world of information dissemination, I don’t think you ever want to watch the information train pull out of the depot without having a seat.
In fact, why take a seat when you can build your own car on the train?

The Broncos’ public relations department has been among the most aggressive in embracing developing technology and social media, as has been well documented previously.

Now, the Denver Broncos have today taken another step, becoming the first franchise in college or professional sports to launch an online historical database on our media website to encompass every season since the team’s inception as an original American Football League charter franchise in 1960.

The database, which can be accessed by visiting http://media.denverbroncos.com/history, includes digitalized and bookmarked media guides from each year as well as game books (game play-by-plays), flip cards and other related materials from every game in Broncos history, which began in 1960.

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Broncos Have Place on MNF History

September 7th, 2011 - 4:25pm by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

The longest running team sports programming in American sport and/or television history is Monday Night Football.

The Broncos once earlier played the late game on MNF to open the season, a game at Oakland in 2008.

But for Broncos fans this will be the first time Denver ever has opened the season with the “late” Monday night game at home, kickoff slated for approximately 8:20 p.m. Mountain Time. That means East Coast football fans will be watching the great Broncos-Raiders rivalry starting at 10:20.

Mile High City fans now recognize Monday Night Football as a commonplace occurrence on the Broncos’ annual schedule—this is Denver’s 20th straight year on MNF, and that is the longest current streak in the National Football League.

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Saccomano: Mystery Solved – Horse Was Blue in ’62

August 30th, 2011 - 9:17am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

This blog is the result of a lengthy research project, the results of which might be of minimal interest to most fans. However, there are a certain number of pro football historians who have long debated a question about the Denver Broncos uniform, and this project was my effort to answer a question.

Some blogs might be called “I remember when,” and this one legitimately could be referenced as “NOBODY remembers when.”

A horse is a horse, or course, of course (that phrase part of the theme song of an old 1960′s television sitcom about a talking horse, “Mister Ed”), but this project involves a horse of a different color, so to speak, with that color up for debate.

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