I'm not much of a blogger. I've had moments where I've aspired to be one, yet I always found myself without good topics to write about or without enough time formulate my thoughts well on paper, or, if you will, the computer screen. Yet, as most of you will know, there is not much that I am as passionate about as my Broncos. The recent firing of Josh McDaniels came, to me, unexpected, and has left me with a bunch of thoughts that I feel like I need to write about. Maybe not so much for the enjoyment of those who like reading blogs as for myself in order to be able to make a little sense of the tough events that have recently happened.

 Part of my reluctancy to write about my favorite team might have to do with only having been a fan since 2007. Even though we had a team in Amsterdam for a while, I did not know anything or had not seen any American football until I arrived in the United States in the summer of 2007. I remember the first time I watched the Broncos, and can vividly recall the seconds ticking away on the clock, Jay Cutler hitting Javon Walker on the quick slant to bring the Broncos within fieldgoal range and the clock hitting 00:00 as the ball was snapped and Elam hitting the fieldgoal for a Broncos victory over the Bills. The excitement continued in week two in overtime against the Raiders with Sebastian Janikowski hitting the fieldgoal only to find out Shanahan had called a time out, and missing on his second attempt. Whether you agree or disagree with a coach's ability to ice the kicker, I remember those moments as significant in establishing my love for the game. Having never been a big soccer fan (as most of the people in here in Europe), I immediately got drawn by the hitting, the tactics and strategy and the possibility of a big play every time the ball is snapped. I've spend countless hours since those moments, watching film, reading books, only in an attempt to learn more about the game every day. Yet sometimes when I feel like posting a comment or a post regarding my Broncos, I find myself thinking: "what do you know? You havent been a fan for as long as those other people." It's a bad habit, I know, but what do you do ;).

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Hello fellow Bronco fans,

I am a frequent reader (10 times a day?) and commenter of Mile High Report, but do not post FanPosts myself very often as I usually do not have a lot to share. I generally read other peoples topic and discuss things there.

Today, however, I get to share with you my story of being in London for a weekend to attend my first Broncos game ever at Wembley Stadium.

If you want to know a little bit of my background, read this Denver Post article. And for those who don't know me, I'm the guy from The Netherlands. 

So without further ado, here is the first and last time in my life I've written a diary. The concept worked well for the occasion though. Here we go:

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With the 2009 season well underway, the BYE week provides us with some time to reflect on the first 6 weeks on the season, but also to look forward to the end of the season. The Broncos are looking stronger each week, and if they keep their momentum and playing level up, we (as optimists right?) could see them going for a long play-off run.

But there is reason to look beyond the play offs. I recently started to think about our free agents next year, because we have a lot of quality players coming to the end of their contract. In this fanpost I assume that a CBA will get done, because I am remaining hopeful that it will. If it doesn't, then this topic will still be important, it will just extend the contracts with 1 year of restricted free agency.

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Sunday, September 13 2009 was a great day for many of us. The football season had finally returned.

As a fan in Europe, the only way to watch the game is by the video feeds, generously provided by Americans for us unlucky people who cannot watch the game on TV. With the not so great quality feed I was watching, and ofcourse constantly chatting on MHR, I missed a lot of details from the game. Luckily as I am to be able to download the game in Tuesday, I converted it to put it on my iPod for a long trip by train that I had to make yesterday. And while I was watching the game yesterday in the train, being able to focus on the plays and playcalling, the people sitting around me noticed the occasional smile on my face as I was watching our defense take on the Bengals.. the reason: mr. Brian "Wolverine" Dawkins....

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I thought I would share these quotes with you, that were posted by Michael Lombardi on his sunday-morning blog "Sunday at the Post":

Michael Lombardi's blog at NFP

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Jim Saccomano just posted a blog on DenverBroncos.com about the jerseys for 2009.
The best news in the blog is that the orange alternate jersey's will be worn twice as well, next to the AFL Legacy jersey.

Here is the blog for those of you who havent seen it.

Colorful Year at INVESCO Field at Mile HighAugust 4th, 2009 - 11:29am by jim_saccomano

Denver Broncos fans will see the most colorful uniform variety in team history for the home games at INVESCO Field at Mile High this year.

Of course, the team’s primary home uniform remains the dark blue jersey and white pants.

By now fans are well aware of the fact that the Broncos are celebrating their 50th season of play and the American Football League this year. As a result, Denver will don the notorious 1960 uniform, featuring seal brown pants and helmet, gold jersey (kind of a mustard yellow), and the infamous gold and brown vertically striped socks.  The Broncos will wear than uniform when they take on the New England (née Boston) Patriots on October 11, and the Patriots will wear their AFL throwback uniforms on that day as well.

Not to be outdone, the game officials that day will be wearing what the AFL officials wore at that time, which means there will still be an orange uniform on the playing field. The officials’ shirts for all AFL throwback games are white and orange striped.

Meanwhile, the Broncos will once again wear their very popular alternate orange jersey (the one that is part of the current uniform as a third jersey) twice, donning that fabric against Dallas on October 4 and again vs. Pittsburgh on Monday night, November 9.

This is the greatest variety ever worn by the Broncos at home. A quick analysis of the dates shows that the Broncos will not wear the blue jerseys at home for two regular season games in a row until the November 22 game vs. the San Diego Chargers and the Thanksgiving Day game against the New York Giants four days later.

New team, new coach, new philosophies, old uniforms — and the same winning tradition.

Fans can look forward to all of that at INVESCO Field at Mile High in 2009.

This is great news to me. Personally I am a big fan of the orange alternate jerseys, and I wish those would become our standard home jerseys.

To make it easier, here is an overview of the schedule and the jersey's for that game:

 EDIT 1 - @ Cincinatti to Home Jersey. Cincinatti will wear white. / @ San Diego  changed to White AFL Legacy jersey.

If you catch any mistakes, please add a comment so I can change it.

2009 is going to be an exciting season. Can't wait to see the Broncos as the Orange Crush again vs Dallas and Pittsburg.

13-3 Baby! Go Broncos!

Hey everybody!

Unfortunately I havent had a chance (read: time) to post a decent article yet, but I've been reading and commenting along on MHR and I've been really enjoying myself here! Thanks to all the great contributers!

I know there are a lot of other Peyton Hillis fans out here, and I didnt see this posted yet, so I wanted to share it  with all of you:

Peyton Hillis Radio Interview with 104.3 THE FAN

I was still not sure which jersey to get for the upcoming season, but Peyton is just a great guy, and I think I've made up my mind.

Anyway, enjoy the interview!

Go Broncos!