Kaylore
06-03-2006, 03:44 PM
Well the bandwagoners showed up at Fan Fair and it absolutely sucked. There was probably ten times as many people as their usually are. Right when I arrived I knew that there was trouble. The parking lot was absolutely slammed. Parking was free, so that was nice.
Anyway I walk in and get the pamphlet so i can see when all the Q & A's are going to be. There are two for the whole weekend, and the rookie one is on Sunday. So right off I'm upset.
then I walk to the line for pictures and it's inside the stadium already. It starts outside in the south stands like it always has, except there is a huge line now. Last year you waited twenty minutes for top flight players and two minutes for the guys nobody knows (But should like Hamilton). This huge line was for Tatum Bell and Socal's favorite, Ian Gold. I already had a picture of Tatum and everyone knows my experience with Gold, so I look to see if there is something else to do. There wasn't. It's all for the little kids. I'm ok with pandering to the kids, but this was ridicuous. Then I notice how long the line was and decided that by the time I got toward the front it would be time to change players anyway and maybe I'd get a good one.
So I jump in cattle line and started waiting. It's so funny how many bandwagon fans came. So many were hold-over's from the last Super Bowl season. I heard a lady say she wondered if Neil Smith was going to be doing pictures. Lots of Romo jerseys too. Speaking of Jersies I saw these two kids on the field playing around and they both had Cutler Jersies. Pretty crazy.
Anyway sitting in line this guy next to me starts yaking about the Broncos and his takes are pretty homerish. Guys, I met the Bronco version of Bob. Imagine that picture of Bob, sunglasses and all, in a Broncos uni. Same ridiculous claims too like Dumervil will lead the league in sacks this year, stuff like that. I almost took a picture but decided against it because I felt bad.
So fifty minutes later I get to the front of the line and sure enough the guys change. I'm hoping that I don't get PJ Alexander or something when on the Big screen the names pop up: Patrick Chukwurah and Champ Bailey.:militia:
So everyone jumps the other line and comes swarming into mine. Right before I get up to him I call my budy who is working in california right now, to get him on the phone. I go up to Bailey and ask him to speak with my friend since he couldn't be there and he laughed and said "ok". Then he hung up and he starts joking with me about what a weird day it's been and all this other stuff. I made a crack on the Chiefs and he busted up then the photo guy was yelling at us and snapped the picture. We were laughing when it was snapped so we look kind of weird but it was pretty cool:
http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/4025/picture0031br.jpg
After that I ran to the Q&A which featured Nick Ferguson Dominique Foxworth and Kyle Johnson. The wait for the Bailey picture took up almost the whole time but I was able to get the tail end of it.
Kyle did some impersonations again including a perfect Bill Cosby. 'Nique is really acting like a vet now. He would rib Kyle and Ferg quite a bit and had some really funny comments.
When asked which rookies were standing out they all said "Marshall." Again the answer was immediate. They didn't even look at each other to confer. They said he's really picking things up.
'Nique also said that Sceffler has some of the best hands. Kyle Johnson said Scheffler is going to be really good because his receiving skills are top notch. Ferg pointed out that Scheffler likes push off a lot (he said it with a taste of hostility) and so as a broncos tight end "he'll fit right in here."
They also talked a little about Cutler. Said Cutler looks really good and has some great tools.
I asked KJ why he doesn't dance anymore and he said that he only did once when they playe din Jersey since that's his hometown. He also pointed out that the one time he danced in the endzone that they lost. Shanahan gave him grief about dancing before the game was sewn up. Then Ferguson made a comment that the it's really because the league will arrest you if you try to have fun while you play football. Then Foxworth said that we'd all see Kyle Johnsons mug on America's most wanted this year "for doing his one-legged Bronco dance." :~ohyah!:
After that was all done, I left early. I'm hoping and praying that someone goes to the rookie Q&A tomorrow and gives us a reader's digest version of that. This one was so bad that unless they change things next year, I'll skip it in '07
Anyway I walk in and get the pamphlet so i can see when all the Q & A's are going to be. There are two for the whole weekend, and the rookie one is on Sunday. So right off I'm upset.
then I walk to the line for pictures and it's inside the stadium already. It starts outside in the south stands like it always has, except there is a huge line now. Last year you waited twenty minutes for top flight players and two minutes for the guys nobody knows (But should like Hamilton). This huge line was for Tatum Bell and Socal's favorite, Ian Gold. I already had a picture of Tatum and everyone knows my experience with Gold, so I look to see if there is something else to do. There wasn't. It's all for the little kids. I'm ok with pandering to the kids, but this was ridicuous. Then I notice how long the line was and decided that by the time I got toward the front it would be time to change players anyway and maybe I'd get a good one.
So I jump in cattle line and started waiting. It's so funny how many bandwagon fans came. So many were hold-over's from the last Super Bowl season. I heard a lady say she wondered if Neil Smith was going to be doing pictures. Lots of Romo jerseys too. Speaking of Jersies I saw these two kids on the field playing around and they both had Cutler Jersies. Pretty crazy.
Anyway sitting in line this guy next to me starts yaking about the Broncos and his takes are pretty homerish. Guys, I met the Bronco version of Bob. Imagine that picture of Bob, sunglasses and all, in a Broncos uni. Same ridiculous claims too like Dumervil will lead the league in sacks this year, stuff like that. I almost took a picture but decided against it because I felt bad.
So fifty minutes later I get to the front of the line and sure enough the guys change. I'm hoping that I don't get PJ Alexander or something when on the Big screen the names pop up: Patrick Chukwurah and Champ Bailey.:militia:
So everyone jumps the other line and comes swarming into mine. Right before I get up to him I call my budy who is working in california right now, to get him on the phone. I go up to Bailey and ask him to speak with my friend since he couldn't be there and he laughed and said "ok". Then he hung up and he starts joking with me about what a weird day it's been and all this other stuff. I made a crack on the Chiefs and he busted up then the photo guy was yelling at us and snapped the picture. We were laughing when it was snapped so we look kind of weird but it was pretty cool:
http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/4025/picture0031br.jpg
After that I ran to the Q&A which featured Nick Ferguson Dominique Foxworth and Kyle Johnson. The wait for the Bailey picture took up almost the whole time but I was able to get the tail end of it.
Kyle did some impersonations again including a perfect Bill Cosby. 'Nique is really acting like a vet now. He would rib Kyle and Ferg quite a bit and had some really funny comments.
When asked which rookies were standing out they all said "Marshall." Again the answer was immediate. They didn't even look at each other to confer. They said he's really picking things up.
'Nique also said that Sceffler has some of the best hands. Kyle Johnson said Scheffler is going to be really good because his receiving skills are top notch. Ferg pointed out that Scheffler likes push off a lot (he said it with a taste of hostility) and so as a broncos tight end "he'll fit right in here."
They also talked a little about Cutler. Said Cutler looks really good and has some great tools.
I asked KJ why he doesn't dance anymore and he said that he only did once when they playe din Jersey since that's his hometown. He also pointed out that the one time he danced in the endzone that they lost. Shanahan gave him grief about dancing before the game was sewn up. Then Ferguson made a comment that the it's really because the league will arrest you if you try to have fun while you play football. Then Foxworth said that we'd all see Kyle Johnsons mug on America's most wanted this year "for doing his one-legged Bronco dance." :~ohyah!:
After that was all done, I left early. I'm hoping and praying that someone goes to the rookie Q&A tomorrow and gives us a reader's digest version of that. This one was so bad that unless they change things next year, I'll skip it in '07