Tag: john elway
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Mark Kiszla: How John Elway knows way Bo Nix can win his first NFL ring
With quarterback Bo Nix and the boys in Super Bowl-or-bust mode, this team is setting up Broncomanics to lose their ever-lovin’ minds. We’re talking about a full-scale, orange-and-blue meltdown. Can you say freak out? I’m not saying the Broncos can’t win the Super Bowl. In fact, I was crazy enough to have predicted more than…
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After Helton and Walker, which Denver athlete should be next up for a statue? | Friday Faceoff
The Rockies are honoring their Hall of Famers — Larry Walker and Todd Helton — with statues outside Coors Field. Which Denver sports figures should be next? Chris Tomasson, Broncos beat writer Answer: John Elway When one visits Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, there is a big statue out front of Peyton Manning. So why…
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Mark Kiszla: Denver would be dumb to drag its feet on new Broncos stadium
ENGLEWOOD — After getting the broken-down Broncos back up and running toward the Super Bowl, the husband-and-wife ownership team of Greg and Carrie Penner is attempting to do something even harder. They want to give a city in slow decline its mojo back. Don’t mess this up, Denver. A blighted spot on the city map…
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Mark Kiszla: How Bo Nix can shatter one achievement of John Elway and Peyton Manning
Tear it up this NFL season, and quarterback Bo Nix can shred the achievements of Broncos legends John Elway and Peyton Manning in a way that’s almost unfathomable. Money, money, money. You think the money in sports has grown to absurd levels? Then a quick review of the storied history of this QB-rich franchise might…
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Mark Kiszla: Super Bowl win would put Bo Nix in legendary company of Tom Brady
Before we issue Bo Nix a badge as the new sheriff in town, shouldn’t he have to earn his star with a victory in the NFL playoffs? Through 14 NFL seasons of playoff frustration, John Elway endured until his 37th birthday before hoisting the Lombardi Trophy on those joyous evenings in 1998 and 1999. At…
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Netflix documentary introduces a whole new John Elway to Denver
ALSO: LUCY LIU RECEIVES FESTIVAL’S HIGHEST HONOR DISPATCH FROM THE DENVER FILM FESTIVAL • DAY 11 Editor’s note: The Netflix documentary “Elway”, which was released Monday. The Denver Gazette’s Senior Arts Journalist John Moore reviewed the documentary back in early November. Here are his thoughts about the film about the “Duke of Denver.“ Well, hello, John…
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With Green Bay at Denver in big game Sunday, Packers players from Super Bowl XXXII look back at ‘bitter’ loss to Broncos | NFL Insider
In Super Bowl XXXI in January 1997, the Green Bay Packers were favored by 14 points over the New England Patriots and won 35-21. So, after the oddsmakers got it so right, many figured it would be much of the same the following January when the Packers were favored by 11 over the Broncos in…
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Mark Kiszla: Could Nix and Maye become the Manning-Brady rivalry that Broncos Country has been missing?
We’ve gone back to the future, with the AFC once again a wicked-hard turf war between the Broncos and Patriots, just as football gods Peyton Manning and Tom Brady intended. “No team can go through so many years, over and over, with losing. You’ve got to do something about it,” Denver offensive tackle Garett Bolles…
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After being a star Broncos running back, Sammy Winder now a ‘bulldozer man’ in native Mississippi
MADISON, Miss. — As the son of a sharecropper and the 10th of 11 children, Sammy Winder grew up poor in Mississippi before going on to be a star running back with the Denver Broncos. But that wasn’t exactly his ultimate goal. When Winder was a kid growing up in Madison, just north of Jackson,…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: The case for the Broncos benching Bo Nix in favor of Jarrett Stidham
Bo Nix doesn’t have it. The Broncos are lucky to be 8-2 thanks to the defense. Nix doesn’t set his feet, rushes passes and throws the ball up for grabs. Not sure if it’s mental, but I’m getting Jay Cutler vibes. – U.T., orange and feeling blue Kiz: Pull the trigger! Any NFL quarterback who…