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As many of you are aware, Mike Shana...er, the Denver Broncos fired Ted Sundquist, their general manager, several months ago. Many of you were probably unaware that the Broncos had a general manager, rightly supposing that the megalomaniacal Shanahan was the coach, GM, media liaison and concessions coordinator. I can only imagine the hard feelings engendered in that firing, like when the toady little protagonist from The Good Earth told his wife he was taking a mistress and she broke down cryin… Continue

To Steve McNair. I can count on one hand the number of quarterbacks during my tenure as rabid fan that could reasonably claim to be Football Players. Not football players, but Football Players. You get the distinction. Eddie Kennison quit football the day before a game he was supposed to start. football player. Ronnie Lott had his pinky amputated at halftime so that he could play the second half. Football Player. There are a lot more football players than Football Players, period. Most Footbal… Continue

It pains me to admit that I might be getting old, that diversions that I once found as necessary as breathing now seem...like diversions. This makes me feel like the aging punker who, missing three entire octaves from his hearing, inadvertantly does a duet with the chick from the B-52's. And as my friends scream at me about being a sell-out, rather than looking for my little lost passion, I squint at them, wishing I could read their lips. So rather than accepting responsibility for any possible… Continue