Mile High Report
When Denver took a dip after the Peyton Manning years, fans were not happy when hallowed Broncos streaks came to a screeching halt. No back-to-back losing seasons? Gone. No shutouts since the Elway days? Gone. The Broncos had started playing football no amount of magic could rescue.
The ‘magic’ had evaporated.
When Sunday’s Broncos game against the Giants began, none of us would have ever guessed that it would become the kind of game that fans will talk about for years to come. It certainly didn’t feel that way as the scoreless quarters piled up and win probability continued to decline.
Yes, skill, talent and luck all had their role to play on Sunday when the 4th quarter began, but there was something more in that thin Mile High air. Something that had been missing in Denver for a long time.
The magic is back.
What is the magic? It’s the belief that at home, the Broncos can win any game no matter how improbabe that win may be. It’s becomes magic when that belief swirls around the players and through the fans, manifesting into something special on the field. As a fan who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, it was hard to deny that something special would happen at the end of games to turn them in Denver’s favor. Most of the time, that ‘something special’ was John Elway. However, the magic can be traced back at least as far back as Craig Morton and has persisted through each era of Broncos football. Yes, even the Tebow years (let’s be honest, there was very little that was magical about Tebow after he left).
Sunday’s game against the Giants was one for the ages. Teams don’t just spaz out and score 33-points in one quarter every day. Fans will remember this as one of the greatest games in Broncos history. They’ll remember it as the day they honored Demaryius Thomas. They’ll remember it as a the day when Mile High Magic returned to Broncos football.
