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Related: About this forumWhy is a giant poster of Fuckin' Flacco on the side of Mile High Stadium???
Sports show hosts and fans are going nuts. If I were really a Donkos fan I might be mad.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/broncos/2013/08/26/joe-flacco-poster-sports-authority-field-mile-high/21063/
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Why is a giant poster of Fuckin' Flacco on the side of Mile High Stadium??? (Original Post)
El Supremo
Aug 2013
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madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)1. Ahh. So you really want to be me (mad). What are you going to do...
steal my cat avatar??
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)2. Where is that guy who defaced the Big Blue Bear? We need him.
Another Fuckin' Flacco on the 16th St. Mall.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)3. Counter billboards are starting to show up.
trumad
(41,692 posts)4. That is weird.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)5. Did $elig take over the NFL?
Don't they consult with anyone before coming up with these boneheaded ideas?
trumad
(41,692 posts)6. Gt to be a bonehead decision by Stadium management...
Is it a story locally about it?
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)7. Locally, it is a bigger story than the recall elections.
Joe Flacco banners to promote Ravens-Broncos game irk some Denverites
The devil wears purple.
Ed Rydberg was strolling down 16th Street Mall on Tuesday, one of those sun-splashed Denver-y days the Downtown Denver Partnership would love to promote, when he suddenly said: "What the ..."
There was Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, featured on a banner on a light post.
(snip)
The NFL is trying to promote its big first game of the season, the rematch of the Ravens-Broncos playoff loss, when Rahim Moore ... yeah, yeah, you know what happened.
But Flacco's plastered all over 16th Street like Stalin in St. Petersburg. Yes, there are also Peyton Manning banners, but Flacco? That Bert-from-Sesame-Street guy who beat the Broncos in their own home? Flacco? That Sam The Eagle guy who went on to win the Super Bowl MVP like Peyton was supposed to do?
And then, to top it all off, Flacco's face is also on the actual stadium, the scene of the crime. Flacco and Peyton next to each other on the south side of Sports Authority Field at Mile High....
http://www.denverpost.com/hochman/ci_23956654/joe-flacco-banners-promote-ravens-broncos-game-irk-denver-16th-street-mall
The devil wears purple.
Ed Rydberg was strolling down 16th Street Mall on Tuesday, one of those sun-splashed Denver-y days the Downtown Denver Partnership would love to promote, when he suddenly said: "What the ..."
There was Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, featured on a banner on a light post.
(snip)
The NFL is trying to promote its big first game of the season, the rematch of the Ravens-Broncos playoff loss, when Rahim Moore ... yeah, yeah, you know what happened.
But Flacco's plastered all over 16th Street like Stalin in St. Petersburg. Yes, there are also Peyton Manning banners, but Flacco? That Bert-from-Sesame-Street guy who beat the Broncos in their own home? Flacco? That Sam The Eagle guy who went on to win the Super Bowl MVP like Peyton was supposed to do?
And then, to top it all off, Flacco's face is also on the actual stadium, the scene of the crime. Flacco and Peyton next to each other on the south side of Sports Authority Field at Mile High....
http://www.denverpost.com/hochman/ci_23956654/joe-flacco-banners-promote-ravens-broncos-game-irk-denver-16th-street-mall
trumad
(41,692 posts)8. Like I said---weird...
It's as if the front office is drinking shots.