MileHighReport turns 3 years old!
It's hard to believe that it has been 3 years since MHR burst onto the scene. 'Burst" might be a bit of an exaggeration since it took 18 months or so of me talking to myself and few others (I know some of you are out there) before we really started to take off. As has become a tradition, here is that memorable first post, the one that started it all -
Here we sit, only 2 weeks away from the start of the 2006 NFL Season and this BLOG is ready to roll! Welcome to the Mile High Report, your go to place for everything Broncos. It figures to be an exciting season for the Broncos and it will be equally exciting around here at the MHR, as I will affectionitely refer to it. The success of the MHR will rely on you, passionate Bronco fans everywhere, to be interactive wih me and let me know what you want in this site. I am going to dig in and get started, but if you have any suggestions feel free to let me kow. Take a look around and get comfy, and make sure you check out the 'Diaries' section, where you too can become an author and contributer to the MHR.
So sit back, relax and get ready to enjoy what we all hope will be another championship season in Denver!
Yes, not very inspiring, yet that day started a new movement among Broncos fans, one that has grown, ever so slowly, every day since. Now, MHR is over 3,000 registered members strong, and dozens more that are lurking in the shadows. If you are one of the lurkers, now is the time to join! If you are registered but don't comment, please do so now!
If you have been around since the early days, I offer my sincere appreciation. If you are newer to the site and have no idea what a 'Diary' is, welcome and be thankful you found MHR after the redesign!
The past 3 years have been incredible! We have only just begun, however, and promise to continue to be what we set out to be - THE #1 source for Denver Broncos news, blogs and comment on the web!
Here's to the next 3 years!
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aside from a few tantrums
quite a happy toddler!
Congrats on 3 years.
Owning the Patriots since September 9, 1960
Thanks for everything Guru
This place is such a nice retreat from everything else. From the team(nonpaid staff) you have put together and the integrity you have built this site to be, I couldn’t ask for anything more. Congratulations on 3 years, and I look forward to the many years to come.
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for to many men on the field?" - Jim Bouton
Happy Birthday, MHR!
"If only I wasn't a cat, my curiosity affliction wouldn't be so deadly."
by Tempestuous Binary on Aug 24, 2009 12:42 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
+1!
"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left." – Yogi Berra
"No, I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space."
Congrats Guru! I am a proud member of this community, since I am here from - I guess - almost the beginning.
Is there a possibility to look it up when I joined in those early days? Would be very much appreciated!
I think some of that was "lost"
when we went with the SBNation format. A whole bunch of us have the same “first post” date. I know I lurked for a long time before I made a comment and I made a lot of comments before I got the courage to make my first diary.
It all starts in the trenches - HT 11/11/08
Leave the hateful vitriol to the uninformed - HT 3/16/09
Happy Birthday!
Words cannot describe how happy I am that this site exists. In a sea of MSM stupidity and “fan” trolldom ranging from outright rants to “wolf in sheep’s clothing” self-important agitation, MHR and its staff and fans have made this season educational, understandable and meaningful. Best wishes to you, the staff, and everyone!
Happy Birthday, MHR!
And Guru, thank you so much for giving me a sane place to get my Bronco fix! This community is the best!
"When a new coach comes in and expects hard work, a team attitude and personal accountability over a personal thirst for glory, I won’t fault him for the reactions of a few selfish individual." ~Hunter Ansley, InDenverTimes.com
by Colorado_Kitten on Aug 24, 2009 12:58 PM MDT reply actions
Well stated Kitten.
It can’t be said any plainer or clearly than that. You speak for many of us.
It all starts in the trenches - HT 11/11/08
Leave the hateful vitriol to the uninformed - HT 3/16/09
+2
"Talk about the Broncos and I'm gonna 'put my dukes up'. I'm gonna hit you with these rings." -- Rod Smith's rebuttal to Jamie Dukes
by broncosmontana on Aug 24, 2009 3:46 PM MDT up reply actions
Congrats, and Thank You!
I am eternally grateful that I now have a place to hang out where positivity and stimulating discussion are the rule of the day.
But at the risk of exposing my ‘noobness’ for all to see…
What exactly IS a diary? Has that feature been replaced by the Fanpost?
Kool-Aid Addict & DP Message Board Refugee
Awesome!
I wasn’t here for its inception, but I was lurkin’ around for its first birthday. I too am thankful to remember what a Dairy was yet no longer have to use it. ;-) It seems like I’ve been around longer than I have… Perhaps it was all of the commenting and writing I’ve done that makes it seem that way. lol
Verbose in style, dispersion of thought, procrastination in life.
Jeez, 3 years! Congrats!!!!
Time flies. Reminded that I used to be “Broncette” in the beginning before SB Nation unified all the usernames between the blogs and I stuck with my Athletics Nation username. It’s so much easier to have one username :)
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
HAPPY BDAY
to MHR….consequently only 5 days from my BDAY haha ah the good old quarter Century mark.
To pay homage to your post:
I have said this before but will re-iterate here, I am very new to the MHR.
I reside in Va, but have spent all of my life either in, or visiting yearly, Colorado.
I spent my freshman year of College in FoCo and miss it dearly.
My family is military but for nearly 2 decades I have been an avid Bronco fan, as I was raised.
I am overwhelmed to have found a Forum dedicated to my greatest passion, and the experiences I’ve had here in this short one month have been wonderful. This can’t be said enough, I believe MHR is the most inviting, intelligent, and informational forum on the Broncs I have ever seen.
I appreciate all the work that has been put into this amazing website, as it helps bring back the memories of watching the Broncos every summer in Greely for many years. Thanks to all and please keep up the good work.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison
"Success is not a place at which one arrives, but rather... the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey."
- Alex Noble
Happy Birthday
and thanks for being a great support group. :-) we all need it!
Glad the site is well past its teething stage.
Happy Birthday
OK ok I’ll stop lurking. Love reading your content every day. Happy Birthday MHR!
DC hope to catch you
at the PQ Tavern. you going to be there for cinci?
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison
"Success is not a place at which one arrives, but rather... the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey."
- Alex Noble
not sure
sad to say it but I actually got food poisoning from the bar that was there before PQ so now I’m a little leery….
Is there a big Bronco contingent these days? I was knee deep in Chiefs fans for years there.
The DC
the DC Chapter of the Broncos Fan club meets there. google the DC chapter and you will see what I mean. I went once last year and the entire first floor was so filled with Denver fans I had to go upstairs with the heathens to find a seat to get food.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison
"Success is not a place at which one arrives, but rather... the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey."
- Alex Noble
Happy B-Day MHR!!!
I’ve been a member for a little over a year. The absolute best site, with no close second!!!
All you get from drafting the "best player available" is a team full of good football players.
"Here's to the next 3 years!"
There will be a Super Bowl win in that time span.
He felt like the man who drew the first circle. Perfect, and complete.
All this talk of a Super Bowl win in the next three years is silly...
I’m talking ’bout THIS YEAR!
We’re currently undefeated and tied for the first seed in the AFC playoffs!
Belief is accepting something because you’ve been convinced to do so, whether you like it or not. Faith is accepting something because you want to accept it.
by Hercules Rockefeller on Aug 24, 2009 2:28 PM MDT up reply actions
Awesome Site
Great work guys on an awesome site, especially for all the non-Denver residents. There is some great content on here. Cheers!
Happy birthday!
I believe I made the second comment here (damn, SBN Lions blogger getting here before I did!). I don’t post much here any more (~150 short of 1K comments), but I think that has to do with the Rockies actually playing good baseball and leading the Wild Card right now.
"If we never try, we shall never succeed." - Abraham Lincoln
Purple Row - Covering all your Rockies needs!
See you after the World Series then!
fader nation is a conquered nation
Jerry Jones is Al Davis with a smile!
Will do.
And then we can celebrate the Super Bowl in 2010!
"If we never try, we shall never succeed." - Abraham Lincoln
Purple Row - Covering all your Rockies needs!
And if you
check out those links to how the site looked like when it first launched, I was Rox Fan in NY.
"If we never try, we shall never succeed." - Abraham Lincoln
Purple Row - Covering all your Rockies needs!
Happy B-Day!
Congrats and thanks for the great site!
Happy Birthday!!!!
So this is the year MHR is potty-trained (say that only because that’s what I’m doing with my 3-year old). MHR is a class act and continues to hold a monopoly on my internet time! Here’s to many more years! :)
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
Thank You Sports Guru...
For all that you do
And to all of your Staff
A Rec’d and a half
Happy Birthday MHR and All
Be proud – Stand straight and tall
For all Bronco Fans – Our place to share and debate
So, 13-3 Baby…And we will all stand and celebrate
Thanks John!!!
Well done!
Congratulations on three years. I’d be a lonely Broncos fan in SoCal without this place. My sincere thanks to everybody who contributes here in posts and comments. This has to be the best football site around, and that it’s a Broncos site just makes the place that much more fantastic.
Here’s to the next three years! May they be even more grand than the first three.
Happy Birthday, MHR
Thanks to everyone who makes this such an enjoyable and informative site. Keep up the good work!
Amen...
Thanks to you Guru, your staff, HT, Styg, etc.. and all the posters who make this such a great place to hang out and be fans. Here’s to an entertaining season, lots of great debate and gnashing of teeth, and some surprising success !!
"I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" -- Wimpy J. Wellington
Happy birthday
and hopefully many many more! This is a fantastic place and I appreciate finding it more than I can say.
"My team's on the floor"
Gene Hackman - Hoosiers
That's wonderful
Thanks for letting us share in it – and for making this the best sports site on the web!
Hillis/Moreno in '09
Wish I could hang out here more often
The pace of FanPosts around here is mind-boggling, they’re up and then on the second page within a day or two! Anyway, I enjoy the limited commenting I make time for here. Since I moved to Seattle, Mariners have taken most of my sports-following time. But I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do next season, and maybe I’ll hang around more.
Congratulations on 3 Years!!!
Thanks John for giving rabid Broncos fans a safe place to vent and share.
Congratulation to the 3rd
I hope there will be at least 33 more years!
Life without knowledge is death in disguise
by Zoltan from Budapest on Aug 24, 2009 3:16 PM MDT reply actions
Congrats
I have only been a part of this community for this last year probably mid last season when this site was refrenced at broncotalk.net i have been a loyal reader since reading every day and checking for updates every hour i just dont post as much as i should. But anyways i thank all of you who donate your time and effort to make this website operational.
CONGRATUMALATIONS GURU!!!!!!
And thanks again for all the effort and for putting up with the likes of this motley mob of fans for so long. You’re a class act, the hardest working fan in show bizness, and a great facilitator of critical thinking. Some may disagree with you from time to time, but we’re all very fortunate to have you doing this for us. CHEERS and GO BRONCOS!
"Talk about the Broncos and I'm gonna 'put my dukes up'. I'm gonna hit you with these rings." -- Rod Smith's rebuttal to Jamie Dukes
And to the staff
KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK!!! You guys are tops, bar none!!!
"Talk about the Broncos and I'm gonna 'put my dukes up'. I'm gonna hit you with these rings." -- Rod Smith's rebuttal to Jamie Dukes
by broncosmontana on Aug 24, 2009 3:41 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
And to the contributors
KEEP THE POSTS COMING! Unquestionably the cream of the crop of Broncos boards! Thanks for keeping things passionate yet civil, wildeyed yet focused, deadly serious yet downright hysterical — whatever your views, whatever your disagreements, you guys and girls make this place a SOLID community!
"Talk about the Broncos and I'm gonna 'put my dukes up'. I'm gonna hit you with these rings." -- Rod Smith's rebuttal to Jamie Dukes
by broncosmontana on Aug 24, 2009 3:45 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
Congrats
Thanks for the only Broncos site worth visiting.
"It's the first time that I've probably ever seen a 260 pound back run into a free safety and go flat on his back, I mean it was exciting." ~John Elway
Happy BDay MHR
No doubt many more to come, by far the best Broncos site available!!
For a blast from the past
check out this early edition of MHR!
"Talk about the Broncos and I'm gonna 'put my dukes up'. I'm gonna hit you with these rings." -- Rod Smith's rebuttal to Jamie Dukes
Interesting
Thanks broncosmontana (I refuse to call you BM), that was pretty cool. The current version of MHR is a nice upgrade for a 3 year span. I’m sure part of that is SB Nation, but still, this place is tops!
"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left." – Yogi Berra
"No, I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space."
lmao!!!
Your discretion is sincerely appreciated. I assume you eschewed BM because it stands for Bowel Movement, right? ; ) Right? ; )
"Talk about the Broncos and I'm gonna 'put my dukes up'. I'm gonna hit you with these rings." -- Rod Smith's rebuttal to Jamie Dukes
by broncosmontana on Aug 24, 2009 5:04 PM MDT up reply actions
YES
"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left." – Yogi Berra
"No, I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space."
Happy Birthday, MHR!
John, you’re the best, for your insight and foresight in establishing MHR! Thank you, sir.
" Life is what happens while you're making other plans "
Thanks John
Incredible Job. Nationwide and going Global. How terrific is that!
Here’s to many more!
"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left." – Yogi Berra
"No, I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space."
happy birthday mhr
ditto what has been already said this is my first stop after work and at lunch when possible good work guys never stop
go broncos
Blast from the past
Wanna see how MHR looked that first week? Check it out here.
Congrats ALL on a long way come, and a bright future ahead.
Happy B-Day...
Blinky your on!!! Ahappy Birth aday to you……….Great Work here at MHR and thank you!!
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy, Am I or the others crazy?" -Albert Einstein
Happy Birthday MHR...and manyyyyy more!!!
You’ve done a great job with this site John/Guru. Thank you for your hard work, dedication, and research that you’ve done for us and this website.
"When you put on that jersey, the name on the front is more important than the name on the back." - "Miracle".
"Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else." - Vince Lombardi.
Happy Spank Day
Hope MHR stays around for many more years to come.
Victor Frankl:
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
OH SHUT UP JOHN BENA!!!
I think that U had 2 know, that we the fans, would love what U brought to us! OK! Maybe U had a few misgivings as to how it would grow, but, U have 2 absolutely love the friends and neighbors that log on each day!
I 4 1, have lobbied 2 try 2 get the MSM 2 realize that the content at MHR is so strong, that THEY can come here 2 research thier reports…
Sadly enough, it hasn’t worked!
I have read everything that U, and every other contributer has written over the past two?? years (im not sure if I have been a member that long but) and I have been extreemly pleased, (that realy doesn’t describe it) with the fact that it is NOT anything that I can find in the press.
That, my friend is a shame! The reporting that I recieve on every aspect of this game that we all love, let alone the Input from all of the REGULARS, OR THE STAFF, that educates all of us is astonishing!!!
U did this without knowing that U would! But U did!
Now we all, U included, can sit back and revel in the absolute love of the team we all R rooting 4! Thanx 2 U John Bena, We Have MHR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO BRONCOS 16 – 0 BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is better to keep silent, and appear to be wise, then to ramble on and remove all doubt! The Wisest Man, Solomon.
lmao!!!
"Talk about the Broncos and I'm gonna 'put my dukes up'. I'm gonna hit you with these rings." -- Rod Smith's rebuttal to Jamie Dukes
by broncosmontana on Aug 24, 2009 7:50 PM MDT up reply actions
Hey we aren't in the terrible twos anymore. Woohoo!
Wow, time really flies. I have only been here a little over a year and looking back on it I don’t know what I would have done without it. I mean I can’t say it enough when I say this is the BEST site to get all of your up to the minute Bronco info.
You totally rock John and I thank you a million times over. I have learned so much more about football thanks to HT and learn a lot from the different points of view from all of the members here.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MHR! Here is to many wonderful more to come.
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
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2009 NBA Finals MVP Kobe Bryant
Nice job to John and the rest of the crew...Happy Birthday to MHR and all the MHR faithful!
Those that cant coach, compete!
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
All I want is 53 Rod Smiths. Is that asking too much????
"Peyton Hillis didn’t rip the sleeves off his jersey, they flew off out of fear."
Calijoefornia.
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday to John and all the MHR staff and readers. I am addicted to MHR as much as I am the Broncos!! I live and die with the Broncos 12 months a year and I check out MHR every day. MHR is a must for all Broncos fans!!
HAPPT BIRTHDAY
I havent been here long but I love the site and all the work that is put into it.
live and die blue and orange
Happy 3rd Birthday!
I found MHR shortly after I was deployed in the fall of 2006. Maintaining connectivity with the best team and fans in professional sports really helped me during my year in the desert.
I agree, Larsen shouldn’t get any bigger. I am getting tired of his bone crushing hits knocking the pixels off my TV, once they fall to the floor they are very hard to find.
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