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A LOVE AFFAIR WITH A LOSER
Edwin Shrake
March 29, 1965
Denver rebuffed its eighth-rate pro football team until other cities started romancing it. Two community-minded brothers saved it at the last hour, and now the city is a mile high over those Broncos
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March 29, 1965

A Love Affair With A Loser

Denver rebuffed its eighth-rate pro football team until other cities started romancing it. Two community-minded brothers saved it at the last hour, and now the city is a mile high over those Broncos

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The Broncos have dealt for Fullback Cookie Gilchrist from Buffalo and Halfback Abner Haynes from Kansas City, two of the AFL's best running backs when they care to be. The football team should be improved by their presence. And already the Broncos have sold more season tickets than the average attendance (16,894) at last year's games. Denver is a town of football fans gone mad. The astonishing thing is that they will have something to watch. A month ago you could have got a bet against it anywhere in town.

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