1-12-13

 Alternative title was:

Whadaya Know…Joe Can Throw

Layers food and adrenaline are how you deal with extended periods of cold when tail-gat’n.

Some might say booze helps. We all know it doesn’t really, but it does make being out in the cold a whole lot more tolerable. Plus if ever there was a right time and right place..Today qualified.

COLD..I like my cold with snow. No snow today. I heard a rumor this was the coldest Broncos home game since 1972. I believe it, I’ve never been cold at any sporting event like I was cold at this game. During the game unless you had club level seats there was nowhere to go to warm up.

By halftime my Coke was frozen in my cup…No joke!

Sitt’n here writing this blog entry a day later, I’m in shock, my head hurts, my bones are still cold from 7 hours in the elements and I can’t for the life of me wrap my head around this season being over.

WTF happened?

Where was my man Champ Baily? I figured he’d be money this game.

Why did the Broncos take a knee with time on the clock?

Why did Moore let Jacoby Jones get in front of him? (Worst Play Ever)

Was it something I did or didn’t do. Was it my new Jersey?

What happened to this being Peyton’s house? Denver Defense?

I felt like I did my part.

It just didn’t seem like the same team I watched win 11 straight games before today. For sure the Broncos didn’t look like a SuperBowl bound team.

I’m totally kerfuffled.

I start to wonder does Manning have a post-season jinx?(He’s now 9-11) Was it the combination of the pressure and the weather? Was his neck bugg’n him? I know when it’s cold out my back just plain hurts.

Begrudgingly…Props to the Baltimore Ravens! What a game plan on both sides. That’s all I’m gonna say about that. Best of luck to ya Ray Lewis(Snitch).

K and I showed up about 3 hours early each with about 5 layers of clothes and multiple hand and foot warmers. Underneath everything I was wearing my new Broncos jersey.

It’s the one I won for the winning the Bud Light Bottle Race back in December of 2011. Long story short they it took them 11 months to send the first jersey and it was a size 56 XXXL. I had requested a 52 XXL.

It was returned back to the Broncos and just in time for this game I received my customized size 52 XXL Players Jersey. Thank you Broncos!!

I was extremely pleased with my Nikon camera for holding up in the single digit temps.

Here’s the game from a fans point of view sitting there freezing his ass off.

5th level front row.

Here’s Lee stepp’n on Champs hand to start the game off.

Holliday starts to work his way down field.

Quick look…No worries.

Damn he caught up quick…No worries I got this.

That’s how you start a game!

Feeling invincible.

A fired up Champ Baily..Before the cold set in.

Champ about to get beat bad.

I feel ya Champ…Gett’n old sucks.

What’s up with the Broncos fan wearing a Manning jersey cheering the Ravens extra point?

Tight end Joel Dreesson, starting to turn a nice pink color.

This gets ugly.

Decker gett’n manhandled.

Hit hard and the ball is loose.

Graham eyes it.

It’s his.

At this point in the game my stomach started to feel a lil queezy.

The Ravens kept changing the momentum of this game. As much as Broncos fans were cheering and making noise, it was in vain. This bird soared into the end zone.

Stomach still queezy now my toes were gett’n cold.

Manning with a sweet pass to Stokley.

Stokley with a sweet catch for a TD!

 Flacco to Rice…Waaaay to much of that during this game.

Ray Lewis giving Stokley some luv.

Manning to Moreno.

Flacco Sacco.

Von pressuring Flacco. I wanted to see more of this.

Bronco Luv!

Yeah Von!

Unfortunately that pissed Flacco off.

This is seconds before Broncos fans Superbowl dreams get crushed. Flacco worms his way into position.

Winds up.

Throws a Hail-Mary.

Why Moore is where he is…Is beyond me?

One helluva catch.

The rest explains itself.

The extra point was good and so were K and I.

I hadn’t felt my toes in about an hour and my fingers couldn’t work my camera anymore. K and I decided it was time to go.

We missed nothing.

There will be NO Superbowl for Denver this year.

If Manning is gonna make (sometimes extremely cold)Denver his home for the next couple of years, the folks that can may wanna consider putt’n a retractable lid on ‘ole Mile High.

This way we can keep Manning’s hands warm and his head in the game.

Manning’s play was obviously affected by the weather. I get that, but how do you fix that? 78,000 of us witnessed first hand Manning rapidly degrade as the temperature went from damn cold to nut shriveling.

This is a sad day for Broncos fans.

Let me just say…You gotta be hardcore to be a Colorado Sports fan.

I’m ”D” the Ranter…Still in Shocko from Flacco.