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.

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.