The conversation turns from football players to football fans as Michael Conniff writes, “Because Elway's team won not once but twice, back-to-back, the typical Broncos fan EXPECTS a Super Bowl every year and kvetches when it inevitably doesn't happen. I find that obnoxious beyond belief.” Kit O’Carra responds, “The years I lived in SoCal I tried to get to every game the Broncos played there, whether it was at the Coliseum with the Raiders (before they moved back to Oakland) or to San Diego. This was back in the 80's, when most people assumed the nastiest fans belonged to the Raiders and we were risking life and limb attending a game decked out in orange and blue. Not so....by far, the most obnoxious and nastiest fans were in San Diego.”
Fellow football fans Star Eagle and Kit O’Carra engage in a comparative analysis of Bronco stars future and former. Kit writes, “At least Cutler has the makings of the right stuff, but I don't think he's at Elway's level yet.”
Michael Conniff takes armchair quarterbacking to the blogosphere with his assessment of the underappreciated Jay Cutler. “The typical Denver fan will point out that Jay Cutler is not John Elway,” observes Conniff, “despite the fact than Jay-C says his arm is better than John Elway's ‘hands-down.’ Denver fans don't remember that Godway went his entire career without winning a Super Bowl before winning his last two. They forget how much they hated him before he actually went out with a winning twofer. Hate to say it, but the lack of appreciation of Cutler reminds me of the fans of my New York Jets and the dearly departed Chad Pennington.”
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While the good folks of Aspen were spending the weekend worrying about the Hotel Jerome being sold, a small band of 4th-seeded little warriors (specifically, the Girls U-12 Hockey Team) was heading to Denver (a city of 2.5 million), to do battle with the dreaded, undefeated, unbeatable, steroid-enhanced, #1-seededTeutonic Denver Select team-- for all the marbles in the State Championships.
As we drove over the pass towards Denver, my daughter Kyra admitted that she was “sort of terrified” at the prospect of facing this unbeatable foe. I asked what specifically worried her—“Well, other than that they are unbeaten, bigger, faster, meaner, practice 4 hours a day, and there are twice as many of them, nothing much …”
Continue Reading March 25th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)–The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and Challenge Aspen raised the curtain on the Veterans Paralympic Performance Program (VP3), an expanded military program to provide elite-level sports programming and training for physically disabled veterans.
Continue Reading February 27th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--"Surfing the Mountains" is a trilogy about two brothers searching for the best snowboarding mountains. Snowboarding is the instrument that the use to go “surfing” through local cultures and philosophies. Renowned Aspen cameraman Greg Poschman was a key part of the production.
Continue Reading February 16th, 2007
JS: There’s a fundamental thing that’s happened with this generation of ours. We’re the first of the baby boomers. Retirement has fundamentally changed. It used to be your feet up on the porch—as long as you had income to put food on the table and take a vacation one or two months a year. Retirement basically was a nothing, people sitting around this table. Now it’s a much more active process. We have to be doing something we consider valuable. More and more the fundamental thing is different.
PP: I went from doing something to doing nothing. That lasted three weeks and it was pretty boring and I had to do something. I do some volunteer work. Then I was invited to do ski school.
TE: I didn’t start skiing until I was 47, and at age 51 knew I wanted to be a ski instructor, then I plotted for eight years so I could become a ski instructor. I tried to get hired when I was 58 but I was told us you had to promise 100 hours of teaching. I could not arrange that with my partners. So I told them I was going to quit at 59-and-a-half.
Continue Reading February 13th, 2007
After revenge comes forgiveness. Or so one can hope.
I begin an Aspen Institute seminar this morning with the title of “Forgiveness or Revenge,” with me and a baker’s dozen set to mind-wrassle “The Tempest” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” under the tutelage of Ken and Carol Adelman—and the monk Father William Meninger.
But my thoughts go to Petyton Manning on the first day of the rest of his life. My guess is his head never hit the pillow last night after his Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl fortysomething. The sweet champagne of redemption was way too sweet. The naysayers were sent neighing like so many young colts.
Continue Reading February 5th, 2007
Saturday, January 27, 2007
8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Practice
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men's & Women's Practice
9 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Snowboard Snowboarder X Men's & Women's Practice
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Practice
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Women's Final
11 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Snowboard Snowboarder X Men's & Women's Final*
12 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men's Practice
12:45 p.m. - 2 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men's Final
12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Round 2
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Skiing Slopestyle Practice
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Sit-Skier X (Men's & Women's Combined) Final
4 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Practice
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Snowboard Best Trick Showdown Practice
5 p.m. - 6 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Practice
6 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Elimination
8:15 p.m. - 9 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Final
Continue Reading January 27th, 2007
Aspen, in the context of ESPN, is little more than a set for something that the latest chunk of visitors to define us for the world. Like it or not, what people see over the next set of days is what they will get when it comes to Aspen. Like retirees angling for an ogle of Jack Nicholson, the young and the nestless will have a chance to make Aspen their own.
Perhaps malleability is our most pungent trait. People who come to Aspen are slackers of the most obvious sort--a fashionista snapshot in time--and I'm not just talng about evergreen boys who keep their voices and their pants low. A man of means can do his own slacking in a Lacoste shirt: the whole lot of them are at a point in their lives where they don't have to worry so much what the world thinks--until they leave town.
But here's the rub. We provide the set but we let others provide the action.
Continue Reading January 25th, 2007
A week ago today was Martin Luther King Day. Two days later came the 65th birthday of Muhammad Ali. And Sunday two African-American coaches got their ticket punched to the Super Bowl, the first time a black head coach ever brought a team to the big party.
So: a big week for equality: but I was also struck on my radio show "Con Games" by how we liberals give a pass when the building blocks of history turn out to be inconvenient to our version of the truth. Nowhere is our blind spot more obvious that when it comes to the man named Cassius Clay who will die one day as Muhammad Ali, perhaps the greatest athlete of the 20th Century, and certainly the biggest celebrity in the history of the world.
Continue Reading January 22nd, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
8 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Skiing SuperPipe Men's & Women's Practice
9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Snowmobile Freestyle Practice
9 a.m. - 12 a.m. Skiing Skier X Men's & Women's Practice
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men's & Women's Practice
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Skiing SuperPipe Men's Elimination
12 p.m. - 3 p.m. Snowboard Snowboarder X Men's & Women's Practice
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Practice
12:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. Skiing Slopestyle Practice
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Practice
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Snowmobile Freestyle Practice
6 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Women's Practice
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Snowmobile Freestyle Elimination
7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Women's Final
Continue Reading January 19th, 2007
Challenge Aspen, Aspen Skiing Company and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association welcomes the US Disabled Ski Team and disabled national ski teams from Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and Germany to Aspen this January for the prestigious 2007 I.P.C. Alpine World Cup. The exciting ski events will take place on Aspen Mountain on January 17 through January 21, hosting over 80 of the World’s best Disabled Athletes on their march to the World Cup Finals in Italy. Athletes will compete in two Super G’s, two Giant Slaloms and two Slaloms, all World Cup events sanctioned by the USSA, FIS and International Paralympic Committee.
Continue Reading January 17th, 2007
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