I need some help from you guys.  Now, I freely admit I'm not really football-savy.  So can somebody out there who is explain something to me?   Many "experts" are saying the Falcons did a good thing to get rid of DeAngelo Hall.  Just as many, some of them the same "experts", are saying the Raiders did a good thing by picking him up.  How does that work? 

Or did I just totally miss the boat on this?

Again.

I was cruising over at MSN to take a look at Fox Sports and ran across a video which made a weak parody of the election process and offered the opinions of Kevin Hench and Krystal Fernandez.  (Sorry, but I'm not techno-savy enough to provide you with a link.)

Anyway, Kevin Hench made a ridiculous statement that Shawn Merriman "...could beat the rest of the guys in this division one one leg." and that the Chargers would win by at least a, "...five game cushion."

I know the Chargers are good and are the best in the division until somebody proves otherwise, but come on.  Who is this idiot?

I've noticed that some of the fan posts on this site can generate close to 200 comments.  20, 30 and even 40+ are not uncommon.  In the last couple of weeks I've been stretching my wings and looking at other sites.  It seems as if many of them struggle just to get into double digits.  Why is this?

I think a big part of it is the contributions MHR followers make.  I don't want to leave anybody out so I'll just say that we have some very football savy writers with a lot of passion who generate stories and add comments.

But another has to be the rank and file, readers who also have that Bronco passion and aren't afraid to throw in their opinions.

Another might be the respect this site seems to have for the Bronco legacy.  Even the youngest, newest fans want to hear about the good old days from us geezers. 

Still another might be the respect people on this site have for each other.  I know I'm not as knowledgable on some things as many, if not most of you on this site.  Nevertheless, I have always felt comfortable adding something my small contributions on any topic.  

I guess I feel like I'm part of a family.

Old Mile High.

I have never, and I mean never, tried anything like this before, inserting links into a post.  See what you guys make me do.  I hope it works.

For you history buffs there's a real nice article from the Rocky Mountain News about the Old Mile High Stadium here:

http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/milehigh/1223mile0.shtml

 It has brief references to a lot of the stories from Bronco history we've been talking about and a few we haven't.  I hope this stirs the pot a little.

I was wondering what that little red star on next season's schedule was, so I put my cursor on it and clicked and viola!  I was whisked over to the raider site.  I read but didn't say anything.  There's a reason but I'll discuss that in a minute.  I guess that makes me a lurker.  Is that the right term?  I didn't click on San Diego because I didn't see a red star.  I wonder what that means?  But then I clicked on the red star behind New Orleans, went to their site, surfed around a little and found a similar result. (Man am I impressing myself with all my computer savvy! lol.)

Actually, I didn't say anything at either site because they seemed kind of...I don't know... sluggish?  Listless?  It seemed like their own versions of the Guru were trying to stir things up but nothing seemed to be happening.  Where we can get over a hundred responses on a single item, the most I ever saw on any item over there was 10.  And many of those comments were... banal. 

So anyway, I clicked my heels together while saying, "Help Mr. Wizard!  I don't want to be in raiderville anymore and presto-changeo.  I was back.  Dorothy was right, "There's no place like home."  

I'm a long time (since the Floyd Little, Billy Thompson days) Bronco fan who stopped by your site, just to see what the other side is thinking and doing. I've always been a bit of a Buffalo fan too. I just want to say I'm impressed with the quality of this site; the professionalism, the sportsmanship, and the knowledge of your contributers. You do your team, and your community proud.

No matter how this game turns out I want to wish Good Luck to the Bills and may we meet again in the AFC championship game (just like the old days)!

Trinidad Jack

I noticed the continuing results of the poll tend to favor retiring Mr. William's jersey and placing his name in the Ring of Fame. The poll doesn't seem to provide for comments, but I feel the subject deserves to be discussed and so have started this thread.

I'm not saying that the most popular choice is the wrong thing to do, but suggest that perhaps the emotions of the moment are getting the better of us. The loss of Mr. Williams was a great loss to his family, the Broncos and the fans. We are all feeling the shock and the grief and that may cloud our best judgment.

Perhaps this is a poll better taken after the strong emotions of the present have had some time to cool, say, six months from now. During that time we can ask ourselves, "Should Mr. Williams be honored in the same way as the likes of Floyd Little and John Elway?" Then, if we find it is still the right thing to do, we should let the Bronco's and Mr. Bowlen know this is what Bronco fans need to honor a lost family member.