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Game of My Life: Denver Broncos: Memorable Stories of Broncos Football
How do you measure the soul of a city? In Denver, for the better part of five decades, its been by the Broncos. From an ugly and inauspicious beginning to the first nationally televised Monday night game in 1973, through postseason games that included back-to-back World Championships and four other Super Bowl appearances, the Broncos have provided the Mile High Citys primary identity on a national level. The nations first truly regional sports franchise, the Broncos were the first major league team to call Denver home, beginning play as a charter member American Football League, its first season being 1960.
230 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2007
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January 18, 2023
Jim Saccomano, a longtime Denver Broncos Vice President of Public Relations, put together this book on former Broncos players who wanted to discuss some of the best games of their careers in the orange and navy blue. Saccomano really did his research on the 20 subjects that he interviewed for this book, and you'll see what I mean when you read this book.
In each chapter, Saccomano started off by giving you some history of each player in their own words and/or Saccomano's. Then he gives you the setting which sets up the game of these players' lives. And finally, a section called after the cheering stops which discusses what these players did after their careers with the Broncos or the NFL ended.
My favorite chapter in this book was chapter 4, which was about former wide receiver Ed McCaffrey. In that chapter, McCaffrey and the author discussed the receiver's journey from being a backup receiver on the New York Giants from 1991 to 1993 to being one of the better receivers in the NFL with the Broncos from 1998 to 2002.
Throughout this book you could tell that Saccomano was really passionate about Broncos football, with a good example of that passion taking place on page 86. On that page which was a part of the Rick Karlis (Broncos kicker from 1982-1988) chapter, he recounted a story about a Broncos tryout camp that took place in Spring 1982 and that numbered 478 hopefuls.
Saccomano knew what he was doing when he made this book and there's a reason why he was a public relations guy with a pro football team. He wanted this book to be a true Denver Broncos football history reference, as well as one that would sell well among Broncos fans and maybe football historians. He closed the book with three consecutive chapters on three of the biggest stars in franchise history in Shannon Sharpe, Terrell Davis, and John Elway.
In closing, Saccomano is one of the premier Broncos historians in America, and he proved that with this book. Even if you're not a Broncos fan you will come away from this book with an appreciation for a franchise that went 37 years without a Super Bowl title (1960-1996), but that same franchise in the late 1990s, made it their business to make the moves necessary to bring Denver not only one, but two Super Bowl titles (1997 and 1998).
In each chapter, Saccomano started off by giving you some history of each player in their own words and/or Saccomano's. Then he gives you the setting which sets up the game of these players' lives. And finally, a section called after the cheering stops which discusses what these players did after their careers with the Broncos or the NFL ended.
My favorite chapter in this book was chapter 4, which was about former wide receiver Ed McCaffrey. In that chapter, McCaffrey and the author discussed the receiver's journey from being a backup receiver on the New York Giants from 1991 to 1993 to being one of the better receivers in the NFL with the Broncos from 1998 to 2002.
Throughout this book you could tell that Saccomano was really passionate about Broncos football, with a good example of that passion taking place on page 86. On that page which was a part of the Rick Karlis (Broncos kicker from 1982-1988) chapter, he recounted a story about a Broncos tryout camp that took place in Spring 1982 and that numbered 478 hopefuls.
Saccomano knew what he was doing when he made this book and there's a reason why he was a public relations guy with a pro football team. He wanted this book to be a true Denver Broncos football history reference, as well as one that would sell well among Broncos fans and maybe football historians. He closed the book with three consecutive chapters on three of the biggest stars in franchise history in Shannon Sharpe, Terrell Davis, and John Elway.
In closing, Saccomano is one of the premier Broncos historians in America, and he proved that with this book. Even if you're not a Broncos fan you will come away from this book with an appreciation for a franchise that went 37 years without a Super Bowl title (1960-1996), but that same franchise in the late 1990s, made it their business to make the moves necessary to bring Denver not only one, but two Super Bowl titles (1997 and 1998).
November 25, 2008
Only a good read if you're a bronco fan with a long memory, but I am
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