Good evening, Broncos Country!<\/p>\n
Some fans choose their team, and some fans are chosen by their team. Which was it for you? Tonight, we want to hear your story from you: How you became a fan of Broncos.<\/p>\n
When did you first become a fan? Were you born into it? Was there a specific game or season that pulled you in? What\u2019s the earliest moment you remember as a fan?<\/p>\n
For me, I was born in San Diego to an all-Chargers family back in 1978. Plenty of photos of me from age zero to five sporting the ugly yellow that was the lightning bolt now-retro color of the era. Fortunately for me (because the Chargers suck!), we ended up in Pagosa Springs from 1985-88ish. The perfect time to be a young kid in Broncos Country.<\/p>\n
I was already turning to the orange and blue by January 11, 1987, but my interest in football was totally casual up until then. I didn\u2019t even watch the full game that day. I was busy running around doing what 8 year old boys do with little to no parental supervision. At some point, I came home and walked through the living room and say all the adults glued to the television and totally quiet. As most kids know, adults aren\u2019t normally quiet like that in a group setting.<\/p>\n
Looking over at the TV, it was in the throes of \u2018The Drive\u2019. I sat down and watched John Elway make an insane throw for a first down and the adults were no longer deathly quiet. I got into it and a few plays later when he threw the touchdown strike to Mark Jackson, I was hooked on football. I carried that Broncomania to Northern California where I ultimately grew up and here I am today\u2026 Talking Broncos every dang day with all of you!<\/p>\n
That\u2019s my Broncos fan origin story. Let\u2019s hear yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, Broncos Country! Some fans choose their team, and some fans are chosen by their team. Which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,84698,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-772966","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-denver-broncos-discussion","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116125072396270100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772966","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=772966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}