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Denver Native (Carol)
03-27-2012, 03:39 PM
Those who know who Todd Helton is will enjoy this.


SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and Rockies slugger Todd Helton are best friends forever. They love each other like brothers. Their friendship runs deep, but not quite as deep as a post pattern. And that might explain why Helton had to quit Manning's football team, before the quarterback cut him.

"I can't catch. Catch a football? No way," Helton confessed. "Now, you give me my first baseman's glove, and I can catch a baseball. But when Manning throws a football? That's not for me. It hurts your hands too much."

Manning and Helton are the twin craggy faces of Denver sports. They are our classic rockers of athletic excellence, as big in the Rocky Mountains as the Front Range bookends of Pikes Peak and Longs Peak ... and almost as old

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