![]() ![]() However, that doesn’t change the fact that Denver misses the Rocky, big time. We at Devner Stiffs will always do our absolute best to be THE definitive source for Nuggets news and information. The Rocky made Denver Nuggets coverage exponentially better than it is now. Their priority is the Broncos - who have two beat reporters and two columnists who write stories primarily about the Broncos. When the Post is using "stringers" for certain away games (stringers are local away reporters the Post uses to write a game story when they don't send their own beat reporter) it means, well, they start to no longer care. As great a job as Benjamin Hochman does on the Nuggets beat, he is only one guy. The sad reality is, without the constant presence of competition from the Rocky Mountain News (Scripps), The Denver Post (Media News Group) has devolved into the "we will put our reporters on the story that drives the most revenue" trap that one newspaper towns fall into. It's like someone withholding sex from their significant other as a punishment for not measuring up to what is an unreasonable standard. It's a bad place to be in, particularly when it comes to sports media. Despite being the most successful franchise in the Denver sports landscape since 2003 (nine, and soon to be 10 consecutive playoffs trips since the 2003-04 season), the Nuggets are resigned to the place where the Denver Broncos NEVER had to go. ![]() Since the Rocky Mountain News closed its doors in February of 2009, the Nuggets piece of the Denver sports pie has shrunk even more. Even then, the Nuggets had to fight, scratch, and claw for comparable coverage to Denver's beloved Broncos. Nuggets became an ABA Franchise in 1968). When Denver was granted a Major League Baseball expansion franchise in 1993 (Colorado Rockies), that broke a string of 25 consecutive years of just Broncos and Nuggets here in Denver (Broncos became an AFL Franchise in 1960. There was a time in Denver when the Nuggets and the Broncos were the only games in town. Such is life in Denver for every other professional sports team. It was interesting, quirky, NFL business related drama that … if it was in another sport, would be treated less, err, dramatically. Right about the time of the third "Fax Machine" joke I saw on Twitter this past Friday, March 15th, I knew that fighting for attention in this Broncos obsessed city would be a near impossible task. ![]()
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