{"id":129672,"date":"2016-02-08T06:05:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/um-yay-team-2.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:25:59","slug":"um-yay-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/um-yay-team-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Um &#8230; &quot;Yay, team!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a big sports guy, but when my home town team makes it into whatever sportsball game is being played, I&#39;ll follow it along. I picked up a Broncos flag back when they first changed their logo, and put it out when they get to the AFC playoffs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And, the past couple of times the Broncos made it to the Super Bowl, Jackie and Scott have hosted a Super Bowl Party. And &#8230; well, to say the least, it was a much more enjoyable experience than it was <i>last<\/i> time Denver made it in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/broncos\/ci_29489135\/von-miller-defense-carry-broncos-super-bowl-50\">http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/broncos\/ci_29489135\/von-miller-defense-carry-broncos-super-bowl-50<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So we ate well, drank well, cheered, booed, and enjoyed a reasonably close game that ended in our local tribe able to celebrate victory and burn cars out of joy, not anger. Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jackie and Scott for the hospitality, and hopefully we&#39;ll be able to make it an annual event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/youtu.be\/DR0qOk_pcyg' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/DZAS5CQgyB5'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a big sports guy, but when my home town team makes it into whatever sportsball game is being played, I&#39;ll follow it along. I picked up a Broncos flag back when they first changed their logo, and put it out when they get to the AFC playoffs, etc. And, the past couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/um-yay-team-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Um &#8230; &quot;Yay, team!&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40980,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/yeah-thatll-teach-me-to-watch-the-super-bowl.html","url_meta":{"origin":129672,"position":0},"title":"Yeah, that&#39;ll teach me to watch the Super Bowl","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Feb-14 7:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"On the bright side, nobody expected a rout like this. \u00a0From my (admittedly untrained) perspective, Denver was simply outplayed. 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It is apparently mystically enchanted to lead to the Broncos losing big time during post-season play.True, sometimes it doesn't kick in until the Super Bowl itself, but the Broncos' fate is sealed.Again, apologies. \u00a0 View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160106_141326983.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160106_141326983.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160106_141326983.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40965,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/02\/right-now-more-people-at-super.html","url_meta":{"origin":129672,"position":2},"title":"Right now more people at Super&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Feb-14 6:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Right now more people at Super Bowl party are watching Twitter than the game. #Broncos","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40945,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/02\/getting-ready-for-some-football.html","url_meta":{"origin":129672,"position":3},"title":"Getting ready for some football!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Feb-14 2:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, yeah, I'm not a sports-oriented fellow. 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