{"id":61816,"date":"2025-05-19T07:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/61816\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:59:13","slug":"denver-broncos-fans-ask-college-not-to-tweet-lets-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/61816\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Broncos fans ask college not to tweet &#8216;Let&#8217;s Ride&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We don\u2019t say that anymore<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SMASHER (@SMASHERxSMASH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMASHERxSMASH\/status\/1922117237504131489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Denver Broncos<\/a> fans grew tired of former quarterback Russell Wilson&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2022\/10\/08\/nfl-twitter-reacts-to-russell-wilson-saying-lets-ride-after-loss\/79210102007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Let&#8217;s Ride<\/a>&#8221; catchphrase, so much so that he eventually stopped using it.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Let&#8217;s Ride&#8221; tag is a callback to a brutal era that saw the team go 13-21 with multiple heartbreaking blunders. So it&#8217;s no surprise that fans <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2024\/04\/26\/denver-broncos-fans-react-qb-bo-nix-does-not-say-lets-ride\/79055801007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">have had near-meltdowns<\/a> when players like current quarterback Bo Nix and star cornerback Pat Surtain <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2025\/03\/16\/nfl-pat-surtain-stops-russell-wilson-lets-ride-line\/82416863007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">have stopped themselves<\/a> after coming close to repeating the phrase.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone outside of Denver has received the memo, though.<\/p>\n<p>When the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/denver-broncos\/332\" data-autotag=\"80ecb2c2-c4e3-4c9a-8c53-01c0a2da3542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broncos<\/a> signed Utah State wide receiver Kyrese White <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2025\/05\/12\/denver-broncos-news-2-tryout-players-signed\/83584557007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">after a successful tryout<\/a> at rookie minicamp, his college <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/usufootball\/status\/1922009255147716823?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tweeted<\/a>: &#8220;Broncos Country let\u2019s ride!\ud83e\udd20&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans in Denver quickly alerted the school that the phrase is now out of fashion.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All love but please leave this phrase in 2022 \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sidelines Broncos (@SSN_Broncos_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SSN_Broncos_\/status\/1922053334162149866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I love my Aggies to death.<\/p>\n<p>But as a Denver Broncos fan, &#8220;let&#8217;s ride&#8221; is basically hate speech lmao.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Douglas &#8216;The Situation&#8217; MacArthur \ud83c\udf96\ufe0f (@Hinga_Dinga_Dur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hinga_Dinga_Dur\/status\/1922353975560430028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don&#8217;t say that Bro<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Broncos MX \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd (@DenverBroncosMx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DenverBroncosMx\/status\/1922433135901389279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh no .. he said the thing ..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Davis (@SamDavis577512) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamDavis577512\/status\/1922334896355201164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the NFL still hasn&#8217;t stopped selling &#8220;Let&#8217;s Ride&#8221; merchandise, <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2024\/09\/03\/nfl-funny-broncos-fans-can-buy-lets-ride-shirts-hoodies\/75056007007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">including t-shirts and hoodies<\/a>. Perhaps some fans have been able to separate the catchiness of the phrase from the pain of the 2022-2023 era.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one day it will return to being an acceptable phrase in Broncos Country, but there&#8217;s clearly a need for more healing among fans before that can happen.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2019\/08\/03\/denver-broncos-famous-fans-celebrities-include-paul-george-amy-adams\/79446413007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t say that anymore \u2014 SMASHER (@SMASHERxSMASH) May 13, 2025 Denver Broncos fans grew tired of former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,3396,4347,7,6,813,2942,572,4345,1434],"class_list":{"0":"post-61816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denverbroncos","12":"tag-do","13":"tag-do-not-syndicate","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-not","17":"tag-russell","18":"tag-russell-wilson","19":"tag-syndicate","20":"tag-wilson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114533444086781358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}