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Posts Tagged ‘Thunder’

A Modest Proposal…or Response…or Whatever

June 21st, 2007 - 11:56am by MilesOther posts by

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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The Horse Is Alright

December 5th, 2006 - 4:13am by AndrewOther posts by

The Broncos’ list of injuries this year is lamentably lengthy.

But the mascot is not among them.

Contrary the utterances of Sunday Night Football announcers Al Michaels and John Madden, Thunder, the purebred Arabian stallion whose presence celebrates each Broncos touchdown, is not going on injured reserve — or the equine version thereof.

He merely left the field Sunday at the two-minute warning, as is customary for the horse.

This is his third year as Thunder, and makes this stallion the second to handle the mascot duties; a previous Thunder galloped about Mile High Stadium and INVESCO Field from 1993-2003 before retiring — in a manner of speaking — in a ceremony held in the 2004 regular-season opener.