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Victory: Super city feeling

 you glad you live in Denver? OK, it’s a lame — make that very lame — joke. But appropriate and timely this week in Denver, in wake of the Denver Broncos’ stunning and (to the “experts”) unexpected victory over the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 last Sunday. On Tuesday, when more than a million Broncomaniacs greeted their homecoming heroes in a huge parade and rally downtown, the city itself seemed dyed in orange, nicely seasoned with deep blue. The streets leading to the City and County Building were a virtual sea of orange, a brilliant if somewhat incongruous hue in a place where citrus fruit never grows and pumpkins are out of season. Under a sunny Colorado sky and temperatures more like May than […]
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