SPORTS-(BRONCOS)
12/24/05 vs. Oakland Raiders(W 22-3)
The Donkies received a bonus this week. Before their kickoff with the Oakland Raiders,
Kansas City had already beaten San Diego and assured the Donkies of the AFC West title.
Then, Buffalo's Triple A affiliate upset the Bengals, assuring the Donkies of the
#2 seed in the AFC. With everything already sewn up, the Donkies were left with
THREE full bye weeks-- starting with a JV scrimmage against the hapless Raiders.
The game was exciting for all of 6 plays. Zack Crockett carried the ball six straight times
and moved the Raiders to mid-field. At that point, Al Davis must have realized what was
going on and put a call down to the sideline. "We're the Rayduhs.... we don't run it. We throw it,
goddammit". Head coach Norv Turner gave into the pressure and the Raiders immediately
switched to the passing game. Punts resulted.
Kerry Collins was able to move the Raiders for a brief time at the end of the second half.
Reportedly, the Broncos' secondary was distracted by Renee Herlocker's santa suit.
Champ Bailey and Domonique Foxworth broke up two passes to some guy who looked
like Randy Moss. Whatever happened to Moss? He used to tear up the world
in Minnesota... remember that guy? Too bad he retired, or died, or took a year-long
sabbatcial to smoke pot...or whatever reason he disappeared from the NFL. But Collins
managed to rebound and found a wide open Nick Ferguson for a touchback. The Broncos went into
the lockerroom with a 16-0 halftime lead.
After that, it was another "Controlled Beating" by the Donkies. That's been a characteristic of
them over the years. Very rarely go they go balls-out and put up 48 points in a
Nintendo-like blowout (see: St. Louis Rams; 1999-2001). They simply
close up the playbook, run simple plays and
eat up the clock. Mike Anderson eclipsed 1,000 yards for the first time in five years, while
Tatum Bell was also set up to reach the century mark, next week. If this keeps up,
Cecil Sapp might reach the 50 yard mark, as well, next week.
The only suspense remaining was whether or not Bradlee Van Pelt would make it
into the game. Late in the fourth, a "BVP" chant was floating around the stadium.
BVP did make it in....to hand off to Ron Dayne three times. Todd Sauerbrun almost
didn't make it into the game. The Donkies didn't have to punt until roughly
8 minutes into the fourth quarter.
For the first time since Some Guy Who Sells Cars quarterbacked the team, the Broncos
are AFC West Champions. They're assured of a first-round bye and home playoff game...
the first playoff game in Denver since Some Guy Who Sells Cars beat
the New York Jets (random aside... the game was
also notable because Curtis Martin made a complete dick of himself by breaking out into prayer after a 1 foot TD run, set up by a blocked punt). There's one team out there(rhymes with "Dolts")
that the Broncos are concerned about, but they've looked relatively human the past two weeks.
As long as Mark Brunell doesn't come through, they should be fine.
Now sitting at #2, the Broncos have indeed proved that
they have...... too much talent to be 8-8. HA!
FINAL CUTS
...||...We've got another BYE WEEK coming up, complete with another BYE WEEK SPECIAL here
on this crappy website. Stay tuned.
...||...With Monday Night Football on ABC expiring last night, numerous
polls have been circulating, such as "what's your favorite Bronco-related
MNF game"? The usual culprits are the 1985 snow game against the Packers,
the 1990 Atwater-Okoye Chiefs game and the 1994 Joe Montana-Elway Chiefs game.
It wasn't an exiciting game, per se, but my favorite would be the 1995
game against Oakland. The Raiders had embarassed the Broncos for the past
3 years and in this game, the Broncos finally made it over the hump and
throttled them in a blowout. After the game, John Elway said something like:
"I wonder if this is what winning a Super Bowl feels like". The game proved
to the Broncos that they were headed on the right track after 3 seasons
of mediocrity, and started to make them realize that it WAS possible
to win important games. I would mark this game as the first step on
the Broncos' Super Bowl trail.
...||...Triple-A game of the week (if the NFL had a Triple A):
Detroit beat New Orleans, 13-12. I will give you 6 bucks
in PayPal credit if you can name me 8 guys on each team (no fair looking 'em up
with Yahoo or any other Internet resource!)
...||...The Internet's failed me for once. I'm trying to find a certain picture
that I saw in my newspaper, yesterday. It had a dejected Cincinnati fan, decked out
in orange face paint, Bengal stripes and Plush Reindeer Antlers. Dude, seriously...
Plush Reindeer Antlers? You weren't drunk when you put those on, so your list
of excuses is short.
...||...For the first time in YEARS, I received absolutely nothing
Donkey-related for Christmas. That's good, cuz' there's only so many polo shirts I can wear.
But I made up for it with Pirates and baseball crap. And I've jumpstarted
my long-sought collection of Running Pierogie Bobble-heads.
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September 02 vs Cardinals
September 11 vs Dolphins
September 18 vs Chargers
September 26 vs Chiefs
October 2 vs Jaguars
October 9 vs Redskins
October 16 vs Patriots
October 23 vs Giants
October 30 vs Eagles
November 6 vs Bye Week
November 13 vs Raiders
November 20 vs Jets
November 24 vs Cowboys
December 4 vs Chiefs
December 11 vs Ravens
December 17 vs Bills
December 24 vs Raiders
December 31 vs Chargers
January 10 vs Bye Week
January 14 vs Patriots
January 22 vs Steelers
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