I've been a Broncos fan for as long as I can remember. I was fortunate to be old enough watch TD carry the Broncos to the Super Bowl and help them win it when I was a kid. I remember the fireworks that somebody in our apartment building lit when we won and having my first home burn down. I remember pretending I was Ed McCaffry and Shannon Sharpe and John Elway and Rod Smith and Terrell Davis and John Mobley and Bill Romanowski, et. al when I would play football on the playground.
I remember emulating Jake Plummer's rollouts every time I snapped the ball playing QB with my childhood friends. I remember cheering the Cutler draft pick because according to 12 year old me he was "going to be much better than Leinart and Young". I remember watching Tim Tebow play the worst football I've ever seen and still take the Broncos to a playoff victory.
I remember watching the Ravens win two years ago on the flukiest of flukes the first time I ever went to a bar. I remember the lights of the houses that I passed as I walked home after that game turning off as I walked, each as I imagine, in response to the pain of the Broncos losing so early in a year that it seemed we were destined for greatness. I imagined each house having a father saying to his son, "It's ok, there's always next year," to his son as he turned the lights off in the house.
I remember my friends staying with me during the last Super Bowl as I got increasingly belligerent and could not stop laughing due to my team's ineptness. They told me I looked like I was going to kill myself. Regardless, I felt that that loss made me understand what it was like to be a Broncos fan for the first time. Before Elway's final years, losing big was all my parents and their parents knew. I am a Broncos fan. While I may have been spoiled as a Colorado kid coming to the most successful team in the NFL during my formative years, I have never taken my team's success for granted.
I have never, and will never boo my team. I was not one of the shitheads at the stadium tonight, and I refuse to be lumped in with them. They are not fans. They are wealthy pretenders who buy the gear and tickets to keep up appearances, but they do not know the team like I do. They don't stay with the team through ups and downs. They are bandwagoners who make the rest of us look bad. The Broncos didn't play well tonight, but that will not stop me from cheering them on anytime they play. I will always support my team, no matter what. Peyton coming to the team was the best thing that could ever happen to a franchise in such sorry shape at the time, and I will always remember the day that he chose to play for us, even if he won't win us a championship. He is the best player I have ever seen play for one of my teams.
Do not tell me I am a shit fan, because of the cockmongers at Mile High who don't understand that success is earned. Do not tell me that I booed Peyton, because I have always believed in him the team regardless of how they are playing. I am a Broncos fan and there are many others like me who realize how lucky we are to consistently have a good team to root for. We realize how fortunate we are to have a stable organization with one of the best current executives running the team. We will always support our team. Even though we may not be the most vocal of our fanbase, we are the majority, and we won't let the actions of a shitty, vocal minority define us. Go America, go Broncos.
tldr; I'm drunk as fuck, go Broncos. Fuck all your comments calling out Broncos fans as a single entity.
Submitted January 11, 2015 at 09:57PM by OilSheikh http://ift.tt/1AGkuzn
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