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bachslunch wrote:Sad to say, no shortage of Denver partisanship has reared its ugly head on this issue. This article is from a local sportscaster with a definite collusion bias:
The PFHoF is definitely better than a passing interest to me, but jeez, get a life and a little perspective already. Unreal.
I thought the first article was absurd--until I read the second, which moved it into the ridiculous category.
The first somehow blames Washington's mediocre ALL-TIME record on Beathard--as if Marshall's bigotry had nothing to do with it. Both also ignore the fact that Beathard also ran things in Miami prior to the Skins and had gotten his start with the Chiefs during the 1960's.
Yet the second's absurd fanboy love letter to "Mr. B" is an absolute joke, somehow making the case that the TV contracts before Bowlen got involved were a pittance. Also, I thought Kraft was responsible for the labor peace and it's not like Bowlen invented the concept of Sunday night football. As far as the success of the Broncos, Bowlen's biggest asset is that he wasn't a meddling owner--I think the players and coaches had a LITTLE bit to do with that run. Finally since when are the "facts" that "the way he ran his franchise like a family and the relentless desire to always be No. 1 'in everything' the basis for any HOF candidacy.
Found a more detailed Mile High Report article which supposedly lays out the case for the TV contract argument:
Problem is, his sources are Broncos staff, and that has the potential to be just a wee bit biased. And wasn't supposed bias Ian St Clair's whole problem with Beathard and Casserly? Sheeh, no hypocrisy there....
I think there's some likelihood that Bowlen did contribute committee work value, and for me that matters in a HoF case. But it's all so lost in partisan overstatement of this kind that
-it's hard to know where the truth ends and hype begins.
-it's really hard to muster sympathy for Bowlen's HoF case given such a ham-fisted approach.
bachslunch wrote:Sad to say, no shortage of Denver partisanship has reared its ugly head on this issue. This article is from a local sportscaster with a definite collusion bias:
The PFHoF is definitely better than a passing interest to me, but jeez, get a life and a little perspective already. Unreal.
I thought the first article was absurd--until I read the second, which moved it into the ridiculous category.
The first somehow blames Washington's mediocre ALL-TIME record on Beathard--as if Marshall's bigotry had nothing to do with it. Both also ignore the fact that Beathard also ran things in Miami prior to the Skins and had gotten his start with the Chiefs during the 1960's.
Yet the second's absurd fanboy love letter to "Mr. B" is an absolute joke, somehow making the case that the TV contracts before Bowlen got involved were a pittance. Also, I thought Kraft was responsible for the labor peace and it's not like Bowlen invented the concept of Sunday night football. As far as the success of the Broncos, Bowlen's biggest asset is that he wasn't a meddling owner--I think the players and coaches had a LITTLE bit to do with that run. Finally since when are the "facts" that "the way he ran his franchise like a family and the relentless desire to always be No. 1 'in everything' the basis for any HOF candidacy.
Found a more detailed Mile High Report article which supposedly lays out the case for the TV contract argument:
Problem is, his sources are Broncos staff, and that has the potential to be just a wee bit biased. And wasn't supposed bias Ian St Clair's whole problem with Beathard and Casserly? Sheeh, no hypocrisy there....
I think there's some likelihood that Bowlen did contribute committee work value, and for me that matters in a HoF case. But it's all so lost in partisan overstatement of this kind that
-it's hard to know where the truth ends and hype begins.
-it's really hard to muster sympathy for Bowlen's HoF case given such a ham-fisted approach.
Since the 1970s (at the least) there was Sunday Night Football (on ABC) at least once a year, and often the game featured the Dallas Cowboys.