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Things To Discuss This

Month...In Between

Bagpipe Bursts At

The Colorado Scottish

Festival (August 3 to 4)

AIR

IN THE

News Coloradans can

use. After years of get-

ting only Albuquerque

TV stations, Durango

citizens will receive

the Denver newscasts

they’ve long desired in

the coming weeks.

Fresh fish. This month,

Colorado Parks and

Wildlife and the Na-

tional Forest Service

will begin a project

to reintroduce Rio

Grande cutthroat

trout to southwestern

Colorado waterways.

Charitable strength.

Teams of up to 25

can raise money for

Special Olympics

Colorado by hauling

a 164,000-pound jet

at the 2019 Plane Pull

(August 17).

A TALE OF

TWO ELWAYS

John Elway’s first two chapters at

the helm of the Denver Broncos

have been, um, different. How

different? Before the team kicks

off its ninth season under Elway’s

rule—with a new coach and quarter-

back—we examined just how stark

the contrast has been. —JAY BOUCHARD

How Pat Bowlen made

winning the expecta-

tion. The legendary

Denver Broncos owner,

who had Alzheimer’s

and died in June, will be

inducted into the Pro

Football Hall of Fame

on August 3.

WI N

.725 PERCENTAGE .416

Winning Super Bowl 50 HIGH POINT

Starting the 2016 season 4-0

(The team finished the campaign on a 5-7 run.)

43-8 LOW POINT

The score of the Broncos’ loss to the

Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVII

8

Consecutive games the Broncos lost in 2017

SPORTS

A V E R A G E

QUARTERBACK

RA T I N G

FOR STARTERS

89.3

Peyton Manning threw 140 touchdowns and

53 interceptions from 2012 to 2015.

77.1

Collectively, Manning’s heirs have tossed

73 touchdowns and 58 interceptions.

“John Elway: The Man With The Golden Gut”

—Fortune, January 2015 (a reference to his

preternatural football intuition)

“Broncos Need A Reality Check Because John

Elway Is The Problem, Not The Solution”

—Bleacher Report, December 2018

ERA-DEFINING

HEADLINES

AVERAGE NUMBER

OF PRO BOWLERS

6.2 PER SEASON 3

OFFENSIVE

LINE’S AVERAGE

PASS-PROTECTION

RANKING

9

TH

In 2013 and 2014, the Broncos boasted

the best line in the league on pass plays.

22

ND

That’s despite Elway investing a combined

$123 million in free agent offensive linemen.

2011 to 2015

POLITICAL

ADS ELWAY

(^0) APPEARED IN In 2016, the Republican publicly backed the
GOP’s position on three local initiatives.
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