Hey everyone. James here. I live in New York City and love my Sunday Football; we have great sports bars here in Manhattan, and I have three near my home which I frequent. I'm from the San Francisco Bay area, and have always enjoyed a 49er-Bronco game, particularly when both are good - like this year (perhaps nos. 1 & 2). I'm old enough to remember Elway in the 80s - the prototypical brat-type protege out of an elite college with massive prospects. He refused to go where he was drafted, and was taken to school by better teams when he almost solely carried the weight on his shoulders amid reaching 3 Super Bowls; then in the late 90s, he had grown and matured, and Terrell Davis and others arrived. he was like Jimmy Connors - often maligned as a young great and now loved as a solid veteran who hadn't lost a step. I've loved the Broncos since their two great SB wins. Now, it's Peyton at the helm, another great one would have to be a Scrooge to dislike! Good luck this year, and I sure hope the auspicious looking pass attack will offset some chinks in the defensive armor.
In a football context as a fan, I really am annoyed by Ravens fans (blogging is just asking for trouble, though!); look, they won, but the black sheep of the Ravens camp gloat and whine as winners. It's a reality in the Denver and San Fran games last postseason - the refs helped their close victories; I didn't remotely say it was rigged nor that they didn't deserve to win, yet they react by throwing in the straw man and red herrings; you are disappointed by a terrible call/non call from which they benefited, and they angle it into, "can't accept the fact we won, crybaby", etc., etc., etc. Anyway, they have the leverage in the debates because they won. I really hope they get blown out on Thursday!! I would sleep fine if my team won with some controversies that went our way, but to pounce on the losers' emotions with salt in the wounds is not cool! I think they're going to pay this year, I really do. The Vegas odds-makers are as impartial analysts, and nobody is putting crowns on their heads; last I checked, 12 teams are forecasted as better. I realize we have to play the games, but Raven fans invariably profess 'destiny' and 'we proved them wrong' only after they actually win, upsets no less.
Here's from a Ravens forum about Thursday's game, to which I tried to politely remind them of the 34-17 drubbing by the Broncos in Baltimore less than a month before the double OT playoff game; didn't Moreno block well and rush for 120+ yards in that win?
I am bias, and so are you, but are we 'delusional' ourselves in stating that this is egregiously overstated in his/her own partisan manner? Can a sound Bronco aficionado show how this reeks of hypocrisy? Peyton will be on the ground all day (night, actually)??Originally Posted by nk02242
Thanks, James