Tag: Mark Kiszla
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Mark Kiszla: In 10 quick seconds, here’s how Pat Surtain and Broncos shut up the fraud talk forever
When the Broncos storm the field for the Super Bowl, we will remember these perfect 10 seconds when they erased any doubt about their championship chops. “Bet against us … and enjoy losing,” said linebacker Alex Singleton, after Denver overcame a nine-point deficit in the second half to put a 34-26 thumping on Green Bay.…
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Mark Kiszla: Is everything for sale, including loyalty of die-hard Broncomaniacs?
After Denver has finally fought its way back to the center of the NFL universe, is Broncomania up for sale? The NFL nation’s eyes will be fixed Sunday on Colorado, when Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love and legendary CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz hit town for what might well be the most must-see football moment…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Curt Cignetti is the football coach Deion Sanders should want to be if Prime ever grows up
Put some respect on Indiana’s name in the college football playoffs. – J.C., rocks on Kiz: The Hoosiers are the Cinderella football story that CU Buffs faithful only wish they could tell. Deion Sanders and Curt Cignetti were hired less than a year apart to revitalize two of the most inept programs in major college…
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Mark Kiszla: You never forget your first one. But 1996 NHL champs could inspire the Avalanche’s next one.
On a night when Denver raised a toast to its rise as a city of champions, the Colorado Avalanche partied like it was 1996. You never forget your first one. After celebrating the 30th anniversary of the championship run by Super Joe Sakic, the late great Pierre Lacroix and alums of the ‘96 Stanley Cup winners…
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Mark Kiszla: Broncos’ road to Super Bowl begins with Bo Nix’s hands under rump of center Luke Wattenberg
Why wait until the 25th day of December, when Bo Nix and Sean Payton need to start unwrapping their shiniest presents now? All I want for Christmas is a Broncos offense that scares somebody. Despite its 11-2 record, Denver will take the field Sunday in its home stadium, with too many Cheeseheads populating the stands…
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Mark Kiszla: How Bo Nix has become the Wayne Newton of NFL QBs, singing all the hits he knows by heart
LAS VEGAS – Paying tribute to Mr. Las Vegas, Broncos quarterback Bo Nix followed the tried-and-true showbiz rule of Wayne Newton. When bringing your act to the bright lights of the Strip, the audience demands you play the greatest hits. “Songs you know by heart,” Broncos offensive tackle Mike McGlinchey said. On a Sunday afternoon…
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Mark Kiszla: How to fix the nonsensical mess that is the college football playoffs
On the dumbest day of the entire college football season, the legendary Nick Saban and Georgia coach Kirby Smart said something really intelligent. “It’s all B.S.,” Smart told Saban, during a spicy interview that aired Saturday on ESPN. I couldn’t agree more. If college football had a brain, the win-or-go-home thrill of the playoffs would’ve begun…
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Mark Kiszla: Could Nix and Maye become the Manning-Brady rivalry that Broncos Country has been missing?
We’ve gone back to the future, with the AFC once again a wicked-hard turf war between the Broncos and Patriots, just as football gods Peyton Manning and Tom Brady intended. “No team can go through so many years, over and over, with losing. You’ve got to do something about it,” Denver offensive tackle Garett Bolles…
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Mark Kiszla: Knock the Broncos’ wins and call ’em frauds. ‘Doesn’t mean we have to listen,’ Courtland Sutton says. ‘Or care.’
The Broncos just might be the worst 10-2 team in NFL history. And they don’t care. Yes, they hear the noise. The Broncos have been cursed with the F-word as frauds and dissed by the computer rankings that rate them no better than 12th in ESPN’s Football Power Index. Know what has become the new…
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Mark Kiszla: In their year of living dangerously, can the Broncos make Super Bowl run without a running game?
LANDOVER, Md. — Do the Broncos ever do anything the easy way? Every victory smile is covered in a Maalox mustache. Oh, this heartburn hurts so good. It took the Broncos overtime and the big, bad hand of linebacker Nik Bonitto to thwart a two-point conversion for them to beat Washington 27-26 Sunday. “We don’t…