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I'm a 62 year old native of Florida, a graphic artist currently in Charlotte NC due to a plant closure and consolidation. I am legally blind with RP which also affects my hearing. Married with a 27 year old daughter. A Florida Gator Fan. Love football.
I'm a Montana native who's lived in Colorado since 1978. I'm closer to roperdoug's age than most of the kids who post here.
I've been in the oil and gas industry for more years than I care to admit although I suppose I should be proud that I've lasted as long in it as I have. Was laid off in October due to a merger of my company with another... "merger of equals" they called it which sort of puzzles me as it was our office that closed, not the Dallas office. But I digress.
I lost my only brother 4 years ago... he walked into the mountains of southern Colorado and didn't come out. I miss him terribly and the fact that he chose to end his life was so devastating to me that I could barely function until just a few months ago. Paralyzing grief really sucks. Good therapists don't.
Being laid off was a blessing... I'm going to take a year off and I have all these plans to get my "stuff" together and get caught up on all the things I let slide over the past few years.
But I'm enjoying goofing off too much and am not getting anything done! Except going to Broncos games - this is the first year I've been able to resume attending the games - and what a year to get back into it!
I've laughed and told my friends that it's hard work going to the games - it takes a week to prepare and then another week to recover. They think I'm joking... ack.
Anyway, I really need to get on the stick and attack my to-do list. Maybe I'll get to it tomorrow.
I'm not a dude, I've been single longer than I was married, and the only dependents I have are my two cats who are hairball factories.
Also my mother is terminally ill.. so that's something. I spent something like 15 years of my 23 year old life trying to take care of her. When i finally realized at some point I need to try to take care of myself.
I'm drunk at the moment it probably makes this easier to share with everyone. I've got two tumors.. but I've never really had them checked out I'm pretty sure they're just fat build up or something they're just on my arm and thigh. I don't much care for people who are unaware of the world around them.
I don't much care for dishonest people. I feel humanity mostly sucks. I probably tend to care too much for people that probably don't care about me. My life isn't that bad. I know it may seem like I think it is because of some of the things I've written but I've found the love of my life. I'm engaged though no one really knows it.
I lost my brother about 6 months ago and it was hard on me. But worse than losing a brother was watching my mother lose a son. I know that may seem odd. But my brother was born about 3 months early. He was aproximatly 1.5 lbs and fit in the palm of my mothers hand. He was both legally mentally retarded and blind.
When he died he was about 6 feet tall and probably 350 pounds. He was however the kind of person I hope to someday be. He was not afraid to do or say anything. I say this just so you know why I wasn't all that surprised when he died.
He was in the hospital for a week and they told him nothing was wrong. The very day they sent him home he died.
I have a lot more to say just because you said... let's talk about you.
I don't tell this or any other story to get sympathy however. I don't want attention.What I want is for people to live their lives the best they can. Be kind to other people and try to love those around them while they still can.
I strongly advise you check out those two possible tumors. It's not worth the risk and it can be worth the time. If not for yourself than do it for the sake of the people around you. Hopefully it isn't anything serious and it probably isn't but don't take that risk.
I have a birthmark on the right side of my head (hair does not grow there, never has) when I shaved my head once it was in the shape of Italy. My brother once went 12 rounds with Roberto Duran, at that time he the 13th person to go the distance with him. (Duran knocked out Canadian champion Donnie Lalonde in his next fight) my brother beat on me pretty hard getting ready for that fight, and all I got was a t-shirt from the Anchor bar in Buffalo, New York, where the fight was held.
I tend to side with women, due to the fact that I was raised by them and with them
Me too!!! I was reared in foster care from the age of 2 and finally found "stability" at 8. From then on my "foster family" took in only girls. I have only sisters. I was the 1st boy they ever took in, and as I got older there were maybe 2 or 3 more, but only on emergency basis.
It made me protective of women. And I don't mean that in a "I am man and man tends women" piggish sort of way. Growing up it was easier to identify with women and my closest friends were female because with all the "sisters" I had I knew women. It got to the point that as the older girls in the house had a date come to pick them up I'd be able to tell in a few minutes if he was just a date or if something more long term was going to happen.
I have 4 "sisters" that I've stayed close with. I practically grew up with them and they are indeed my sisters. They told my wife when they first met her- "We raised him, so he knows how to treat you. But, if you have a problem, you call us and we'll whoop him for you".
Growing up the way I did made me realize that family is not a function of blood or right. Family is who we choose to be around and allow to be part of our lives. Friends are our chosen family.
Anywho, I'll post more later. Great thread though. You are all fascinating.
*2011 BCMB Locker Room Division I League Champion*
I never realized how much I can relate to so many of you.
I really appreciate those of you that have shared here. It took some balls in a few cases, and I think it's made us all more aware that the people on the other side of our posts are actual people who are a lot like us.
I hope it continues. I'll see if I can do my part by doing some stupid human tricks. I don't know though because I haven't ever tried to post that kind of video before.
I never realized how much I can relate to so many of you.
I really appreciate those of you that have shared here. It took some balls in a few cases, and I think it's made us all more aware that the people on the other side of our posts are actual people who are a lot like us.
I hope it continues. I'll see if I can do my part by doing some stupid human tricks. I don't know though because I haven't ever tried to post that kind of video before.
Put it on youtube and link it here. Let's get ya lots of hits!!
*2011 BCMB Locker Room Division I League Champion*
I have to think this one over. I'm a teacher, remember, and kids can dig up the darndest things.
Dummy account with the video of just your arms and hands. Unless you have some kind of identifying carebear tattoos or something. If so, large bandages over the carebear tattoos.
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