Still Keeping Score

     They say the higher altitude makes for less oxygen and thus harder to breath sometimes for our sea level friends in for a visit.  Apparently there is still plenty of air left for football fans to whine about everything and even stuff I wasn't sure was a category for complaints.  While I completely agree this bold move by the Denver Broncos to sign Peyton Manning is a huge risk, it isn't worth the apoplectic fits flying around online and on the radio waves this fine day.      Yes, it is a lot of money.  Yes, Manning has been injured a bunch, he is old, and he spent his best days of his youth beating the stuffing out of the Broncos.  And yes, it certainly feels like the team is throwing Tim Tebow under an orange bus.  However, if the future first ballot Hall of Fame quarterback has any ammo left in the chamber, and can stay healthy, Denver's NFL team just got a whole lot better.      Risk versus reward is somet...

Just over thirteen months ago, the Denver Broncos fired the oft vilified Josh McDaniels and the then 3-9 team appeared to be years and years away from contending again in the National Football League.  After the latest miraculous moves of Tim Tebow, and the strength and speed of one Demaryius Thomas, the Broncos won only their second ever playoff game in a decade since moving into Sports Authority Field at Mile High.  Suddenly, the 2011 AFC West champs are going to jump on a plane and visit their former coach this Saturday night in New England. McDaniels, who spent most of this season as the offensive coordinator in St. Louis, is officially employed again by the New England Patriots, just in time to welcome some of his hand picked Broncos in the Divisional Round of this year's Super Bowl tournament.  Next year, he will get his old job back as the offensive coordinator, since the current holder of the job is moving on to coach Penn State.  That is an amazing set...

I too had doubts.  I had little belief in the idea Tim Tebow could literally save the Denver Broncos.  At this point, it matters little if the team reaches the pinnacle of the sporting universe and reaches the Super Bowl, this is a team that has been taken to heights no one expected, and no one predicted.  Well, almost no one. Tim has become a spectacle transcending football into a national debate, the subject of that debate seems to move around as much as Tim does in the pocket, because honestly, most folks do not know what to think about him.  In the football world, he is not supposed to be doing what he is doing.  However, even his harshest critics are amazed at exactly how he has achieved the near impossible week in and week out. My wife and I caught a comedy show over the weekend, and yes, the topic of Tim is certainly a part of every one's routine, be it humor, news, sports or otherwise.  The wit of veteran comedian Kathleen Madigan went as far as...

Media members across our great land, and a substantive number of Denver Bronco faithful keep asking the question, but the team has answered it a whole bunch. The recurring question that continues to haunt the locker room and Twitter accounts seems to be, "When is Tim Tebow going to play?" Not now.  That has been the answer since the NFL solved the lockout that was going to cost us all part or the entire season fans are currently enjoying.  Or not enjoying for Bronco fans after the later than usual kick-off as part of the second half of a Monday Night Football debacle. This is part of the problem.  A lot of fans don't like the answer.  And they really hate the answer of "not now" regarding the team's former first round pick when the home team played like they forgot how to play against the much hated arch rival Raiders. A valid question, that deserves some examination, but not so much.  We don't need Mel Kiper Jr., or CSI New York to help solve this c...