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Bacon Cock Man-Tits to you again South Standers! Labor Day shoes are discussed. Stat geeks don't really know shit. They probably need a bone bag around their neck to make their results count.
Overrated albums are discussed and how The Wall is the best Pink Floyd album. Some Rockies talk, Avs talk plus how hockey bloggers are primadonnas.

        

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College Football sucks and here's the proof. How did your fantasy draft turn out? We reveal how Aaron X drafter Jay Cutler and seems pleased about it. A big NFL predictions segment and no, the Broncos won't win the Super Bowl. Good time nonetheless.

        

Just smack the link for Reidy's new column over at the AV Club Denver / Boulder.

        

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Our old friend Snyder sits in and we talk about Melo's impending departure. Then it gets loud as Snyder lays
out the gloomiest of Broncos predictions. It gets heavy and there is shouting.

        

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Snyder hates the Broncos and goes through the schedule, hating them every step of the way.
It gets loud again as Snyder is psychoanalyzed. Then a bet is made. We finally get off the Broncos
talk and go to a more depressing topic: The Rockies.

        

Recently mentioned in the podcast and I just noticed Michael Roberts over at Westword wrote about this awhile back. But here it is anyway:

Forgive me for being late to the party, but I just finished watching a fine bit of cinema entitled Hot Tub Time Machine. It’s a moderately funny paean to the 80’s that involves a magic Jacuzzi. The film tinkers with the notion of time being flexible and changeable all folded in to a stew of potty humor. This works for the characters in the film, but it spells out a bleak future for none other than the Denver Broncos.

The history altering shenanigans employed in Hot Tub Time Machine are the direct result of the characters modifying their actions in the past for a better future result. I won’t ruin the plot of Hot Tub Time Machine for you but you can probably figure it out for yourself: Some friends party down in a hot tub and magically end up in 1986 - able to relive and re-craft their pathetic lives into something more substantial. There’s a lot of homoerotic humor, some drugs get eaten and the girl from Party Down appears out of nowhere, getting John Cusack to fall for her just before she gets on Poison’s tour bus.

How does this relate to the Denver Broncos? At one point, one of the characters uses his knowledge of the future to win some money. One of those future events is “The Drive” which happened during the AFC title game featuring your Denver Broncos and the Cleveland Browns. Hot Tub Time Machine takes place in 1986 but this particular Bronco game happened on January 11^th 1987. Also the game took place during the day but the scene is at night. An oversight maybe, but considering the character makes a bet claiming Denver quarterback John Elway will make a miraculous TD throw with 37 seconds remaining on the clock (accurate) it’s strange a classy piece of cinema would screw this up. But it is a film about a time traveling hot tub after all.

The bet is made and homoerotic hanky panky is afoot. At the crucial moment where Elway makes the fabled strike to Mark Jackson to tie the game, a squirrel runs onto the field and prevents what is presumably Jackson (even though the uniforms are not even close to Denver’s 80’s garb) from making the grab. Our Hot Tubbers are thwarted and an uncomfortable scene where a man must blow another man in front of a dozen strangers unfolds.

The characters go on to live lives of opulence because one of them remains in the past. But while we’re given the recap of how their sad lives are better because of the hot tub, there’s no mention of what happened to the Denver Broncos. Besides the existential and quantum questions this film raises, only one thing mattered to me: What happens to the Denver’s most popular team in the following years?

The Broncos were always perennial playoff participants and even though there were a string of Super Bowl losses following the events portrayed in the movie, Denver became an NFL dynasty – winning two championships a mere ten years later.

If the events of Hot Tub Time Machine were allowed to play out, the Cleveland Browns would have met the New York Giants in SuperBowl XXI. I’m fairly certain they would have met the same fate the Broncos did (loss) but the balance of power in the AFC might have been changed forever. The possibilities spiral off in every imaginable direction and just like good time travel fiction, we’ll never know what could happen. But if Denver started losing those high profile games, what would John Elway’s future have been in Denver? Would he have stuck around as long as he did to win two Super Bowls in the late 90’s? Hot Tub Time Machine, through a thick sheen of dick jokes would like you to think about it.

My guess is that in this alternate reality the makers of Hot Tub Time Machine have so cleverly hidden in their film, would be catastrophic for the Denver sports fan. If Elway doesn’t complete that career defining drive in Cleveland, the Broncos never get close to the same amount of Super Bowl appearances and eventual victories. Elway founded his legend on this game and without it there’s no telling how he’d be perceived today.

If the Broncos- inarguably the region’s most popular sports team- don’t rise to prominence in the late 80’s, there is no reason for Major League Baseball to come knocking in the early 90’s. Without big league baseball and a power house NFL team, why on earth would cash strapped Canadians feel obliged to sell us the Stanley Cup ready Quebec Nordiques? The Nuggets would have been unaffected because they sucked regardless of time tinkering.

The makers of Hot Tub Time Machine never stopped to consider how their hijinks will impact the Denver sports landscape. One of the characters may have gone back and invented Google and sang for Motley Crue and not considered the consequences, but the devastation those actions would have inflicted on the Denver sports scene would have been tragic.

But again, it is a movie about a time traveling hot tub so let’s not get too excited.

        

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Hot Tub Time Machine and the catastrophic implications for Denver sports is discussed. Broncos talk and how our buddy Snyder doesn't have his own show. Will the emotional distance between us and the Broncos grow? There's a guy named "JoJo" on sports talk radio in Denver believe it or not.

        

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A surprising Juggalo or Raider fan creates a division with the cast and the new Eddie Royal Taco Bell commercial is discussed. John has a great fantasy football team name but Aaron doesn't like it. We stick up for Tim Tebow, some Kizsla love and Tweep of the Week.

        

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Hot Broncos talk with some Tebow "bone art" and the son of the guy who played Huggy Bear in full affect.
Bacon Cock Man Tits makes a strong comeback and John incriminates himself. "It's not a puppet thing!" he claims. Plus, Melo is gone daddy gone.

        

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We break down the Gathering of the Juggalos and did Gallagher smash a feces filled watermelon?
Dusty Saunders makes a record two in a row appearance as a Local Yokel, the Rockies R done, a little fantasy chat and of course, Slayer.