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A Very Denver Broncos Season Preview

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Broncos fans have left behind the "Let's Ride" motto in favor of "It's Bo Time," a slogan long employed by southern regional fried chicken powerhouse Bojangles. This definitively sideways trade is perfectly indicative of the overall sideways movement of both our roster construction and performance outlook this season. Maybe that's

A Football Story For The Galaxy

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For the last decade I've been wanting to write a novel that takes place in the stars that make up Orion's Belt. It started because I used to look for the constellation at night as a way to enjoy nostalgic memories and wonder if there were people there staring at

My brain is rotting in confinement

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About six weeks ago I badly injured my back and have been forced to spend almost all of my time in bed, as even sitting for extended periods of time is untenable. Physical therapy starts soon. I'm lucky nothing is broken, and that the damage will heal. For now, though,

The Broncos are on Bye and so is my Heart

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In 2009, my favorite band broke up. The Barenaked Ladies were fun enough on the radio but I actually found a lot of weird and impactful music when I dug into their discography as a high schooler. Their breakup was disappointing, sure, but what struck me horrified was that even

47 Wide Right

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Earlier eras of football history saw reckless intervention by alien forces. As time progressed, though, subtler and subtler methods were used by the planetary interlopers. By the start of the 1990s, technology was getting better, documentation more ubiquitous. The greys began to leverage comparatively sophisticated measures for altering the outcomes

Bud Grant Could Have Saved Us

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Gerald Ford became president of the United States of America in 1974, and for Vikings fans who have made the effort to understand their history, he is a much hated figure. Gerald Ford, of course, is the only president who was never elected to his office, having replaced Nixon's VP

Our heroes, or theirs?

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They arrived quietly. It wasn’t hard to do, we were barely banging sticks and rocks together at the time. Their built-to-purpose spacecraft landed effortlessly on the surface of the ocean, settling eventually at a depth we would not be able to reach for centuries. It was from this vantage that