OrangeandBlue: Denver Broncos Fan Blog

It wasn’t pretty…but it was beautiful.

The Broncos will likely still have their doubters. There will be those who will see the total yards gained and assume the Broncos were outplayed. Others will question a possible touchback on a Champ Bailey fumble or a phantom pass interference call in the end zone.

It would have been impressive if the Broncos had run for 150 yards or more against the Pats D. They didn’t, but I think they did someting even more impressive. They forced mistakes from a seasoned playoff team that had one ten in a row. The Broncos made key plays that prevented the Pats from getting any kind of rhythm. They hustled after loose balls and made timely interceptions.

On offense, Jake Plummer won’t get enough credit for this one. His numbers weren’t great, but he did what he needed to do. The Pats took away the run and play action and challenged Jake to be a pocket passer. Besides an ugly few minutes early in the third quarter, that’s what he became. He took what they gave him and turned in a performance that the box score won’t reveal.

Move on Broncos and don’t look back. The doubters won’t have a game to play next week and you will!

I just watched some of the Rose Bowl highlights on my iPod. Yes, I watched the game, and it was worth watching again. Probably like millions of people who also watched the game, $1.99 didn’t seem to me like too much money to enjoy the video capabilities of my new iPod.

NFL and broadcasting partners: please take notice. I would love to watch Broncos highlights like this every Monday next season. I would pay for a subscription service to automatically download weekly highlights to my iPod. But please make it worth our while like ABC/ESPN did — I couldn’t pass up 20 minutes of highlights for only $1.99

Let the negotiations begin between the NFL and Apple as soon as possible so that this can get worked out. Give us the option to download a game at a time, subscribe to a single team’s season highlights, or subscribe to the whole season. We’re football nuts, and we’ll do it.

Yes, it is true, and yet more than a few bewildered refugees have found their way here.

Harkov, who graciously hosts the site, has been traveling, so he’s not fully available to get to the server. In the brief contact I’ve had with him, he thought that the site is going through a DNS change, which means we all just have to wait for the changes to sort their way out to our ISP’s. I’ve had sporadic access to the site today, and all the data is still there, so don’t panic…at least any more than you already have.

While you are waiting for the site to return, you can visit or subscribe to the FreakFeed to catch up on all the latest Broncos news. If you are feeling especially opinionated and eloquent, you can alwayspost an entry here on the blog to satisfy the horrific emptiness that your fellow freaks are experiencing.

Although some of you already have done so in the comments elsewhere, feel free to share your agony in the comments to this entry.