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Last night - after some sleep - was actually an incredible night. Our seats were awesome, 12 rows up from the field on the 20 yard line. In the north east corner, behind the Green Bay bench and I had a great view of both rocket launches from the Demon.

Denver played lights out great except for 3 plays. The fumble at the Green Bay 1. A risk from Bailey that resulted in a 79-yard touchdown. And the only time the Broncos didn’t roll a safety to help with Jennings was the first play of overtime…and The Demon made them pay dearly for that mistake.

That’s why he is the second greatest quarterback of all time. He’s a kid in a candy store when he plays and you can’t help but smile, laugh, scream, shake your head, and moan when you watch him play.

Sidestory 1 - We get to our seats and it’s just crazy loud. We’re standing, screaming the whole first half and a guy behind me yells - “Hey, sit down.”

I glance backward, he’s wearing a Packer jersey. I ignore him.

He says it again. We ignore him again.

He grabs the back of my jersey.

Bad move on fat boy’s part.

“Dude…relax. You have no idea what you’ll start if you touch me again. You’re in Mile High Stadium.” I point to our differing jerseys. I guess he was doing the math because I’m fairly confident that there were around 75,000 people at that point wanting to kill the 1,500 Packer fans in the stadium.

“Well, sit down.”

“WE will sit down when WE want to sit down. Now enjoy the game and don’t touch me again.”

Some friends he was with quickly tried to defuse the situation because the other Bronco fans around me were not as kind and understanding with their language toward him as I was. For some reason, we didn’t hear another word from him…even after the game.

Sidestory 2 - One of the guys we were with used to work with one of the Bronco’s cheerleaders at Six Flags. She played Wonder Woman and he played - yep, Robin, the Boy Wonder. (We did get a lot of mileage out of those jokes.)

Anyway, start of the 2nd quarter, her squad rotates around to cheer right in front of us and he stands up to get her attention. I said - “There is no way she sees you.”

The next second, she looks right at him and smiles and waves. Which ended up working out okay for all of us as we got to meet her after the game at the players exit.

As were waiting to meet her, I lean over to Chad and say “This is ridiculous funny. Me and you (married, older guys) meeting a Bronco cheerleader with these 2 (college guys). You know exactly how this is going to play out. ‘Hi, these are my two lame, old, married friends that have absolutely ruined any chance I have at actually taking you out after the game.’”

Maybe we should have left the guys cab money and went home. At any rate, we met Katie and I have to say, she was incredibly nice and fun to meet. Very personable and……tall. Good night, she looked me right in the eye.

Great experience…hopefully we didn’t dash all hope for our college buddies.