Asserting that the 1977 AFC champion Denver Broncos were the
tipping point for the transformation of Denver, Colorado from an
outpost city with an inferiority complex to today's sports and
entertainment mecca, award-winning author Terry Frei provides an
intimate look at both a professional sports team and the city it
brought together at a time of great change. Frei offers profiles of
catalyst coach Red Miller and such legendary players as Randy
Gradishar, Craig Morton, Louis Wright, Billy Thompson, Tom Jackson,
and Lyle Alzado, but doesn't stop there, making readers feel as if
they intimately know virtually everyone on the roster as the often
ground-breaking narrative of that season continues. Frei describes
Denver's evolving politics that year-when Richard Lamm was a young
and controversial governor and Bill McNichols was one of the last
machine-style mayors-plus the metro-area culture in the late 1970s
as the Broncos go from victory to victory on their way to their
first Super Bowl. As '77 wide receiver Haven Moses, part of the
famed M&M Connection, put it, "Denver should have gotten the
Nobel Peace Prize that year. There was more done that year to bring
people together than I've ever seen in my life . . . And this
brought attention to what Denver was about to become."
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