Denver Native (Carol)
01-30-2014, 11:53 AM
The wide receiver was double-teamed by an angel and a demon.
There was his 19-year-old son, always hovering above. And there was this suffocating alcoholism that Vance Johnson couldn't shake.
"When I found out that my son died, I don't remember where I was for the next two years of my life — I wasn't breathing, I know that," said Johnson, one of the Broncos' famed "Three Amigos" receivers, who played in three Super Bowls in the 1980s. "I literally sat in the back of my restaurant, man, and just fell apart. ... Alcohol was controlling my life. And this is really the first time I'm able to come out and talk about it, because I'm newly out of recovery, three to four months out."
rest - http://www.denverpost.com/hochman/ci_25020858/vance-johnson-three-amigos-opens-up-about-death-son-alcoholism
There was his 19-year-old son, always hovering above. And there was this suffocating alcoholism that Vance Johnson couldn't shake.
"When I found out that my son died, I don't remember where I was for the next two years of my life — I wasn't breathing, I know that," said Johnson, one of the Broncos' famed "Three Amigos" receivers, who played in three Super Bowls in the 1980s. "I literally sat in the back of my restaurant, man, and just fell apart. ... Alcohol was controlling my life. And this is really the first time I'm able to come out and talk about it, because I'm newly out of recovery, three to four months out."
rest - http://www.denverpost.com/hochman/ci_25020858/vance-johnson-three-amigos-opens-up-about-death-son-alcoholism