Broncos overload
Why did the Rocky Mountain News choose to put the Denver Broncos starting their training camp on the front pages of both the main paper and the Sports section on July 30?
I realize that the Broncos camp just started, but it’s still baseball season!
Is it to sell papers? Are people really that interested in how some third-string rookie is performing when, at the same time, the Rockies could make the playoffs?
It boggles my mind why the Broncos are so revered in this town. They won two Super Bowls — so what? So have several other teams, and those other teams don’t dominate the news in their cities like the Broncos do here.
Please spare me the Broncos headlines until at least the season starts, and let’s get some real news on the cover. These Broncos training camp stories belong buried on Page 4 of the Sports section and beyond.
Neil Nowak, Denver
Bronco overload?
I don't understand why some people put themselves in positions of personal stress and anger.
If you don't like the headlines...take another sip of your coffee...take a deep breath....look up from the paper...gaze at the mountains for a moment...and turn the page.
You will be surprised how that simple act will start your day on a positive...plus you will enjoy your coffee more.
Posted by Adam 2 on August 11, 2007 02:30 AMWell, of course, the Donkeys are - or were - somewhere around the 2nd largest Sunday entertainment business in the area; right up there with the Je$u$ Bu$ine$$ franchises.
Indeed, a few years back - when the team did win a few games in the season - one of the Je$u$ Bu$ine$$ franchisees had his preaching stole made in Donkey colors of orange and blue; and scheduled his own Sunday morning entertainment early; so the fans could get to the stadium for the matinee performance. Sort of an extended form of the old movie "double feature"; bang the book and bellow the BS early, and watch the head to head bashing - along with the antics of the old man in the barrel - later on.
Chalk it up to that every present nostalgia for the "good old days" - and to the need to get ticket sales up to the point at which they can make enough to cover the costs of that new, and horrendously expensive, stadium. After all, ADVERTISING is what makes the world go round these days.
Posted by Old Grouch on August 11, 2007 09:21 AMNeil Nowak,
You are obviously new to the area. You must understand that in order to live in this state you need to bleed orange and blue. There is no other alternative.
I suggest that you either move back to Texas or California or put up with it (I'm personally not a fan of football and can easily block it from my head)
I could not agree more. Where Iraq, the financial and housing markets, immigration and infrastructure are huge issues, the Broncos training camp gets front page coverage.
Given the fact that the public let that reverse Robin Hood Bowlen hoodwink them into voting in a regressive tax to line his pockets, this kind of stupidity is understandable.
I think the entire paper should be devoted to the Bronco's. Stop whining and read something else, Go Broncos!!!
Posted by Mike D. on August 11, 2007 12:28 PMMike D.--Go buy a sports magazine and get a life.
Posted by seriousperson on August 11, 2007 01:57 PMMike D,
Excellent suggention you have there, sir. Go Broncos! indeed!
My only question is, who else would want them?
Posted by Old Grouch on August 11, 2007 02:26 PMHey Seriousperson, you must be a seriousperson if that is your handle. Maybe toooo serious. There are sports magazines about football? Holy crap, I gotta go get me some o' them.... Everybody wants the Bronco's, even Homer Simpson (well, sometimes).
Posted by Mike D. on August 11, 2007 04:30 PMHey Fedupalready, everything is going great in Iraq, housing markets are fine (more people owning homes than ever before) our economy is better than ever, infrastructure is fine, best economy ever according to Fox news, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Pres. Bush. Since all of that is going great what else are they going to put on the cover..... The Broncos!!!
Posted by Mike D. on August 11, 2007 04:37 PMGeez, I'm so bored and in need of a life I'm trying o get a rise out of people on a blog regarding the Bronco's. My apologies....Moving on.....
Posted by Mike D. on August 11, 2007 04:40 PMGreat letter. The only time any sports team should make the front page is when (1) they win a championship or postseason game/series; (2) they make a major personnel movement or announcement; (3) a player sets a major record of some sort (e.g., Barry Bonds); or (4) it makes significant off-the-field news of some kind.
Otherwise, coverage should be limited to the sports section. This business of putting the Broncos on the front page of the paper every Monday during NFL season smacks of small-town boosterism and isn't something you see in major, world-class cities.
I grew up in Los Angeles and the LA Times would never put a local team on the front page unless it met one of the criteria listed above.
And, certainly, I can think of nothing worth LESS coverage than Broncos' training camp; especially with our national pastime still in full swing.
Posted by RB on August 11, 2007 05:17 PMOld Grouch - feel free to get in your car & move to where you can root for the home teams! In case you are an out of stater and are unaware, they are the first pro team in the state, the 2nd to win a championship (the Avs were first) - and while several NFL teams have won at least 2 Super Bowls, damn few have won them back to back.
Baseball may be the national pastime, but when the story of the day is that a man of no integrity or honor steals the record of a man who has both with the tacit approval of MLB by using substances banned in 1985 - about least 10 years before the cheat used - at the FEDERAL level (without a doctor's prescription), why do you suppose that the Broncos are the front page story? In point of fact, the morning that I saw that the cheat had 'broken the record' I felt like crying! The only way Bonds should make the front page is when he is (1) indicted, (2) convicted and (3) MLB has the guts to take the records away from him, since NOBODY can tell how many of Bonds runs were scored legally! After all, when he was the same age as A-Rod, who just scored his 500th, he had fewer than 300 home runs - and amazingly his home run ability went way up during a period of time that Canseco (who has proven to be right about other users) claim Bonds was using too - and has declined since the spotlight hit & he had to get clean.
Maybe other things do belong on the front page, but this is a local paper which understands its readership - too bad you & the letter writer don't.
Posted by Mary on August 11, 2007 06:48 PMOld Grouch,
When it's time for your dirt nap I'll bet your last thoughts will involve Jesus,God , and pleads for your misguided life to continue.
Then you go $traight to Hell.
That goes for Richard Grimes too.
To Neal an all of the uninformed:
The Broncos have always been THE team in Denver. They were the first major franchise in this city.
The Rockies, Avalanche and Nuggets could win the next 20 championships, but they will always be a distant second to the Broncos in this town. If the idea of the Broncos training camp on the front page bothers you so much, perhaps you should not read the paper or better yet, move from our beautiful state...I'll bet no one forced you to move here and you certainly don't have to stay.
Mary, and Native Coloradoan,
It just so happens I was born here. And the very excellent AAA pro baseball team of the Denver Bears were here long before the Donkeys ever showed up. I watched them in the old Merchants Park field on South Broadway, while football was still nothing more than a high school and college sport of no particular consequence outside the area of school conferences.
And the Donkeys didn't begin as a "major franchise", either. The old AFC was itself the equivalent of AAA when the Donkeys arrived here.
The Denver Bears won several League Championships before the Donkeys even won their first game. And when they were a farm team for the New York Yankees, such greats as Billy Martin managed here; Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and others played here. And the originally named Bears Stadium was built for baseball; and modified for the Donkeys, who couldn't provide their own. And you might remember that the Donkeys lost more championships than they won, at that.
Baseball is a game that requires intelligence. And I'll leave it there; since everyone is, after all, entitled to his own opinion - or taste, as the old lady said when she kissed the cow. (As one old saying has it.)
Posted by Old Grouch on August 11, 2007 11:59 PMVery myopic comments from Native Coloradan and Mary. Some of us non-native Denver residents want this city to be a world-class place with a newspaper to match. We don't want small-city boosterism of the type you'd see in places like Green Bay or Cleveland.
Sophisticated cities don't live and die by their sports teams (look at my hometown of LA, which simply shrugged its shoulders when it lost not one but two NFL teams in the same year -- something I am quite proud of, by the way), nor do they place them on the front pages of their newspapers as a matter of routine. Is it that hard to flip to the sports section to read about the Broncos game the previous day? Why does it need to take up space on the front page -- space that should be devoted to real news?
Sounds like some of you need to come to terms with the fact that Colorado -- or Denver, at least -- is a place where people of all colors, backgrounds, and interests are relocating to. And we are making it a better place in the process.
Posted by RB on August 12, 2007 12:06 AMMy two favorite teams....BRONCOS, and whoever is playing the Raiders this week...hahahaha..at least the freaking illegals aren't taking over our favorite past-time, and that is FOOTBALLLLLLL. Go back to bed O.G. you are too old to be up so early....The Price is Right doesn't start until 11 o'clock. And all you other wet blankets...too bad, the BRONCOS rule this town. Denver...love it or leave it. BYE.
Posted by Win or Loose, it's ENTERTAINMENT. on August 13, 2007 10:11 AMThe rockies blow, and WILL NOT make the playoffs, and the broncos are about 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
times more interesting then ANY waste of time baseball team. they are all cheating scumbags anyway.. put more bronco info in the paper as far as i am concerned
Posted by Fresh on August 13, 2007 01:32 PMOld Grouch,
I said the Broncos were the first MAJOR sports frnachise in Denver. The Bears were a minor league team. While the Broncos were an original AFL team, they were not a minor franchise.
Posted by Native Coloradan on August 13, 2007 05:06 PMHere is an answer to Neil’s question, “Why did the Rocky Mountain News choose to put the Denver Broncos starting their training camp on the front pages of both the main paper and the Sports section on July 30?”
Because they felt like it.
When Neil has his own newspaper he can put whatever he feels like putting on its front page.