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After a year chronicling the Denver Broncos's record-breaking and
ultimately heart-breaking 2013 season, Woody Paige and Mike Klis
are releasing a new book focusing on that season, the players
involved, and the Broncos' history and future. The Super Broncos:
From Elway to Tebow to Manning, is the "definitive account of the
2013 season when the Broncos were the wildest west offensive show
in NFL history," writes Jim Nantz, the NFL sportscaster, in the
book's foreword. Paige, an ESPN regular, and Klis, a long-time
Denver sportswriter, celebrate the personal records and team
victories, but don't pull punches about the defeats - particularly
the disastrous Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks. Of perhaps
greatest interest to Broncos fans and die-hard football fans
everywhere, The Super Broncos is filled with entertaining and
revealing anecdotes about three of the most celebrated quarterbacks
in the history of the game - John Elway, Tim Tebow and of course,
Peyton Manning. "Watching Peyton and the Broncos light up the NFL
with an historic season, yet seeing it end in disappointment and
heartache in New York, reminded me of how far the Broncos have
come. And I've been with them through most of it," says Paige. The
book's chapters take fans through the Broncos' colorful history:
the team's birth in the AFL; the "Orange Crush" and the infamous
revolt against coach John Ralston; the team's first Super Bowl
appearance; the rise to one of the NFL's elite franchises with John
Elway and Coach Dan Reeves; Tebowmania; Peyton Manning and his
rivalry with Tom Brady; and a game-by-game account of the historic
2013 Broncos season which saw Manning throwing a record 55
touchdowns, and even saw the Broncos set the longest field goal in
NFL history. Finally, there's a colorful post-mortem on the Super
Bowl defeat: "Mike, sorry man." That's what Mike Klis writes that
Peyton Manning said to him after the Super Bowl loss. For many
Broncos fans, that personal account sums up the season. But where
they go from here is going to be one of the most interesting NFL
stories of 2014 and beyond, with Peyton coming back along with
probably three quarters of the roster, the Broncos will get "meaner
and more motivated," writes Woody Paige. "Bring on 2014," Klis
added. Broncos fans surely agree.
Woody Paige, a witty and charming commentator on ESPN's Around The
Horn'' and a columnist for The Denver Post, has been a newspaper
and magazine journalist, TV something or other, radio talk show
host, author and bit actor for 50 years. Although considered by
some (many) the resident clown at ESPN for the past dozen years,
Paige actually played a clown in a Ringling Bros. circus
performance. He played himself, a stretch, in Rocky Balboa'' He has
flown with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels (and vomited), won two
harness races, lost a camel race, driven a pace car around the Indy
500 track and played in a pro-am with Phil Mickelson. He worked as
a roadie at a Jackson Five reunion tour concert, visited the White
House Oval Office bathroom, drank beer with Jimmy Buffet and Irish
whiskey with U2, and played Blackjack alongside Michael Jordan in
Monte Carlo. He has covered more than 40 Super Bowls, 14 Olympics
and every major college and pro sports event on four continents. He
covered the aftermath of 9/11 in New York City, the Columbine
shootings in Colorado, 1960s civil rights marches in the South and
the aftermath of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in
Memphis, five national political conventions and a Presidential
inauguration. Paige has received more than 100 awards, including
Lambda Chi Alpha's Order of Achievement, the American Foundation
for Suicide Prevention Award and the University of Tennessee's
Distinguished Alumni Award. Paige yearns to do something worthwhile
with his life before it's too late.
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