KB Rant: D-Mac Insults Broncos Fans After Kentucky Native Buys Billboard

As a bronco fan from New York, i am offended. D-Mac seems like a douchebag

delta bravo Jesse Oaks smh

Thankful I don’t have to listen to D-Bag on the drive.

at least not through Week 17 anyway, 16 more weeks of unadulterated pleasure! Thank heavens for DirectTV’s rule for new subscribers!

of this billboard, it brings separation to a organization trying to do the right thing & win games, fans are just fans & they do & act how they want freely because their arent any reprocusions to their jobs by winging it & saying throw in tebow, let him sit he will be ready when his time comes, then Tebow will be unstopable.

i was talking about the tebow situation in general

I feel lucky in some ways that I do live outside of Denver and have never heard of or listened to “D-Mac” and frankly previously had no interest in listening to this interview.

I will say – and this is the only thing I’ll say in his defense because he comes off like a jerk who misunderstands how many of us Bronco fans live outside Colorado — that there are of course a lot of Tebow fans from his college days who are now invested in the Broncos because of his presence (and that’s fine, it’s fine to be a fan of a player you love) but some of those non-Bronco Tebow fans have made their presence felt at a time when I’d rather it just be the team itself, and the fans, debating how the team can get better. So I get where that paranoia comes from, because there ARE people like that out there. However, he should really not be so ignorant about it. Like you said, there are so many loyal fans out there across the country (and even across the world) who are emotionally invested in this team, and whatever our disagreements we all want the team to win and stay winners.

I am not a fan of the billboard because it does feel like fan meddling – even though he has a right to do it, I have a right to say I would rather the team handle the situation because it’s the right decision to make and not due to fan pressure. But that is different from questioning fanhood and saying that you or I are not true fans because we are both invested in the quarterback situation and live away from Denver.

I appreciated and admire your articulate candor here!

GO BRONCOS.

The Drive and D-Mac are classless. I have only listen to them a few times in Colorado but I was not impressed at all and now this puts the icing on the cake!

There are so many Bronco fans outside of Colorado incredibly intelligent and heavily invested in the Broncos. Let’s not let one mo$on ruin in for all of us. And about the billboard, come on man, Orton is a Bronco and a human being and he is one of us. Regardless of whom we want to start at QB it is amazing to me that so many people, perhaps affected from what is going on in their lives, are becoming so angry and so hostile and they channel all their anger and frustration towards a member of their own team or other fellow fans having different opinions.

Thumbs up to Tim Tebow for suggesting that the idiot with the billboard gives the money to charity instead.

Let’s crash the Bengals this week and everything will look better in BRONCO COUNTRY!

GO BRONCOS!

I think the billboard thing is a waste of good money. EFX have made their minds up with the quarterback issue and I don’t think anything can persaude them different.

im from colorado but live in texas and have been a bronco fan all my life. dmac is an ignorant A$$

Truth is I have probably been a Broncos fan as long as some of those jerks on the radio have been alive. The radio guys are a bunch of losers!

Been a die hard bronco fan for 30 + years. Lived in Colorado for three years but most my life in Montana. I am a real fan. Been through hard times, high times and all between. Just because I am not geographically located to Denver does not lessen that Fact !!!!!! We Bronco fans are on all continents all countries all states. Makes me sad to see what has become of so many " fans ". Come on Broncos, Make us proud once again !!!!!

I remember being called a fair weather fan when I was wearing my Bronco jersey for Bowl 32. I founded my allegiance to the broncos when I lived in Aurora between the ages of 7-12. Perfect age for being influenced by the local sports heros.

I listen to The Fan with my android phone. D Mac leaves me uninspired the majority of the time and sometimes I get sick of Al talking over everybody. Stink is more tolerable but sometimes I think he rips the Broncos to an extreme to not appear to be labeled a “homer”. T Jackson is the best IMHO.

I will be expressing my disappointment with their conduct through email to them. I would love it for others to do the same whether a Colorado resident or not.

As I proudly wear my Broncos gear I have been taunted and jeered, yelled at and a few fans in Buffalo wanted to fight me. After every good play by the Bills in the game a crowd of fans looked back at me pointed at me and laughed (Bills were a much better team in those days). I went to a Dallas-Broncos PRESEASON GAME where a group of Cowboys fans followed me around from the stadium back to the parking lot hurling insults at me the entire time and laughing at me ( I was a bit scared since they followed me back to my car and my wife was with me for that game). I have enjoyed it all because it is fun to support the Broncos! I imagine that I would have a completely different reception if I came to cheer the home team at Mile High! So please don’t tell me I am not a REAL fan!!!!

…and it was the one time I was about to boil over and call in. This was awful to listen to; it was intolerance at its finest. The radio hosts showed it when they disrespected out-of-state fans and Tebow fans. The Tebow side of the debate has valid points, yet D-Mac and Al went on to call these supporters idiots and purely Tebow fans, not at all Broncos fans. The amount of ignorance that was displayed was unbelievable. Doing the same thing to out-of-state fans was way out of line as well. It reminds me of 1984 (the book).

The saddest part of this whole charade of an interview, to me, was when Jesse countered the question of giving to charity by telling that if he and his investors got the necessary information to the interested billboard companies that the companies would allow the 10k to be given as charity. The radio hosts became silent as if their attack had been defeated (which I saw as inhumane), yet afterward they continued to disrespect Jesse and Broncos fans in general with their despicable commentary. We as Broncos fans should grow from this and become stronger rather than continuing to be suffocated in the smog cloud of divisions.

I couldn’t agree more. Those guys are classless and clueless. It’s a shame, too.

I know Al and Stink, who were both putzes in this interview…..I’ll bet that I’ve been a BRONCOS fan longer than Stink or Al…..I live in Missouri :)

Down since ’77 with one season (2000) where I had the pleasure of living in Denver for five months. Beautiful, beautiful city.

If this interview brings us together at MHR, I am happy for it. We can use a unifying rallying cry. Let D Mac hear it:
http://www.1043thefan.com/thedrive/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Drive/148181748528908
(they make you become a fan to post, but here’s how you remove being a fan:
Go to the bottom of this page (the application’s home page)
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2344694034
and click “Remove me from fans.”

It’s the first time I listened to ‘the Drive’, and d-mac is obviously a d-minus. Check that,
I think he deserves an epic F. Alfred never has or will be the brightest bulb in the room. But I’m really disappointed in Mark Schlereth, whom I thought was a respected and respectable voice. He’s lost his credibility as a voice of reason and comes off as just another dumb and bullying jock. That yippin’ and yawin’, heein’ and hawin’ was too much. Sad. When Broncos are bad they’re called Donkeys. These guys sure went out of their way to confirm it, sure sounded like a bunch of donkeys, to me.

Some of us fans in Broncos Country didn’t choose where we were born or where a job was located that they had to take in order to survive. Most of us have tried our damnedest to move to Colorado and live there. We are all Broncos fans here. Just because some Mass Communications/Journalism graduate (not to completely insult this group) gets a shot at a local sports radio show thinks they are all high and mighty.

Jesse is nothing but passionate and has some money to buy some billboards with some other fans. I think it is a waste of money to do that, but it is his money to blow. The snarky attitude displayed by the three stooges on 104.3 shows that these guys see us out-of state fans as undesirable. Biggest waste of 7 minutes I have ever listened to.

It is ridiculous to question a fans love for his or her team. I have heard the “whar do you know about the NFL, you’re Canadian” crap and it makes me sick! Sometimes you have to consider the source and stop listening to idiots like him.

UP YOURS!

soooo im from wisconsin im only 21 became a die hard broncos fan after i watched my family sob in heart ache after the packers lost to us in the super bowl im on mhr all the time..i also listen to all the podcasts on 1043thefan.com and the drive is one of my favorite shows…i put in alot of time to be a bronco fan i love nothing more than watching my team and i proudly have a bronco flag waving outside my house in the center of packer country and dammit dmac u numb nut!! if u didnt know dmac is a huge SYRACUSE FAN!!! SYRACUSE!!! u dont live in ny??? u dont live in syracuse u shouldn’t cheer the orange dmac…very disappointed by the ignorance and hypocritical thinking i hear from one of my favorite shows on radio…smh

just read that were lookin at darren sharper….i think its always good to have depth buttt idk what u guys think

I live in New England and was present for Shanahans last Monday Night game for Denver at Gillett Stadium. The relatively small (around 30 of us who grouped up as fans who didnt really know each other) shared a few beers and a common bond as Broncos fans. Exciting experience aside from a handful of Patriot fans being jerks. Heckling is one thing. Spitting? Not so cool.

I find it quite amazing a fansite for a team being run by non-locals. Never really thought about it before how many people that are on here that hail from somewhere other than Denver or Colorado. There are a number of teams in the NFL with large followings away from their home cities but I had never thought of the Broncos as one of them. As a Canadian I’m not all that surprised by the number of fellow Canucks on here as we don’t have a team to call our own or many that are geographically close to us, though it is certainly Viking/Packer territory up in Manitoba. I do find it surprising about how many Americans with teams much closer geographically that have always been Bronco fans. It gives me an even warmer, fuzzier feeling about MHR than I already had.
Clearly these guys have no idea that there are people outside of the State of Colorado that listen to them. Perhaps MHR can make this perfectly clear to them, as it has the perfect constituency to do so. Unless of course, we decide we don’t care what these morons think. They had more than enough ammo to lambast this kid, but went with the lazy approach instead.

but lived out in CA damn near all my life and being away from Denver I think made me even more of a loyal fan growing up. I had to hear it from Raider and 49er fans in Kindergarten all the way through 10th grade in 1997 when the Broncos lost to the Jaguars. Finally as a Junior and Senior in High School I got the last laughs as the Broncos went back to back…strangely there weren’t many Charger fans i can remember, maybe one or two…but now over the last few years they have sprouted around town. I have every Broncos jacket from growing up still in my possession, my first being a Starter Pro Line with the shiny blue satin. At 10 years old, I even successfully wrote and requested an autographed John Elway card from Collector’s Edge (football card co. that had Elway as spokesperson back in day) For this clown to talk about “real fans’ being in Colorado is horse****. I drove 19 hours straight to Denver in June of 2006 for a damn Fan Fair…”we ain’t talkin bout a game or practice…we talkin’ bout a fan fair." Ever since being a freshman in high school I’ve collected Broncos jerseys and right now I’m currently sitting at about 60 of them. And since getting a job at 18 years old 11 years ago I probably have spent more than $20,000 on various Broncos memorabilia and trips to see the Broncos. So this ***hole radio personality from NY that just so happened to “pick up” Denver sports can kiss my ass.

I don’t live in Colorado.

Those 3 imbeciles ned to Thelma and Louise themselves somewhere in Rocky Mountains National Park
Happy to read this article.
Nice job Troy!

I can’t stand Dmac, Les and Jojo, CJ and Klatt. I’ve got a soft spot for Nate , because he always responds to my tweets and I made a bet with him over the air for a 30 min spot or bottle of scotch. Most radio hosts are as fair weather as can be so Dmac shouldn’t be judging fandom.
My name is James. I’m from Albuquerque NM, and I am a Broncoholic!

I lived in Colorado for a few years and learned some of the people that are born and raised in Colorado calls themselves “Natives” and tend to see outsiders as lesser people, even those that lived in Colorado for years, but were not born there. Not saying that any of the radio host mentioned in the post are, but they sure sounds like they are.

When Bronco fans (not just the ones from CO) stop caring one way or the other than we become a- ticket purchaser to watch two logos play a game-

is notorious for being jerks to their callers/ guests. It’s not just D-bag who is mean to them. It’s Mike and Scott and Sandy Clough is probably the worst. I’m listening to them less and less these days because of it. I’ve started listening to Mile high sports radio lately and they treat their callers with much more respect. They put on a good show as well.

Sorry

I am a reasonable man, and known to be a very forgiving person. But i’m going to need a few days to get over this. Thier tone and the way they talk about people/fans in Kentucky/Florida is borderline racist, or at in the very least just offensive. I would say i bleed orange and blue.

Well…let me be more specific! I bleed Denver Bronco orange and blue. I grew up in the mountains of Colorado, so high up we didnt get more than a couple fuzzy TV stations. And as a child one of my greatest memories was when my parents booked a hotel room during a particular AFC west championship game just to watch the Broncos beat the Browns. After the game we packed up and went home. We didn’t even stay the night. I was about 8 years old and have been a bronco fan since. Now I am stuck in florida watching the Broncos on NFL ticket. I also take great joy in going to Sunllfie stadium to watch the Raiders play the Dolphins just to wear all my bronco gear. You wouldn’t believe the way this gets under raiders fans skin. They can’t even focus on the game, instead wanting to know why a Bronco is at “their” game. I Can’t wait for Denver come to miami this year! I also just met a guy last week wearing a bronco shirt in Florida(theres more than you think). He has been a Bronco season ticket holder for 13yrs, living in Florida for the last 6. He tells me every year his family picks one game in Denver, flys out there and watches them play, and having to re-sell the rest. This is what broncos fans are, they are passionate, and stick by there team no matter where they live. Bronco fans in Colorado and other states deserve better from this radio show.

The billboard thing is a little crazy yes, but I can appreciate the passion. I wish I could see more passion out of Orton, and maybe I’d be a bigger fan. He just doesn’t get me excited, and the Broncos behind him don’t win much. Last week Dawkins got me excited, as did Bailey. Rahim Moore even made a standout tackle in my eyes hitting MCfadden. They were completely giving up and sacrificing their entire body to make a play. That was fire, that was what I love watching, thats what gets my heart racing. Tebow does the same thing, he gets me excited, he will sacrifice himself for the team, and I believe the team will follow these guys. Whos getting the offense fired up now???? I hate watching my team lose, but I hate even more watching my team lose when I don’t feel every player gave evrything they could!

I hope this station realizes how many fans they have insulted. I would hope for an apology yet I expect nothing.

It is wrong to diss Bronco fans who do not happen to live in Colorado. Making fun of Mr Billboard knows no boundaries!

For bringing this to Our attention. I seriously can’t believe the lack of respect!!!

Kid was trying to openly communicate and they were just totally derogatory the whole time (except when Stink asked him about how he thinks others are perceiving this). Man, that was a disgraceful display of professionalism.

Nomenclature…. Are they even allowed to keep marmots within city limits? Seriously, it would have been hilarious, had Jesse just bursted out with a Walter line, i.e. “Shut the f___ up D-Mac! Life does not stop and start at your convenience…” Then he goes on, in his own tangent “You asked me a question, now, you wanna respectfully shut the eff up while I answer it?” Alright, maybe he coulda done without the cursing, but still.

I got the reference.
Also, D-Mac should be extra ashamed because he was on the receiving end of a snarky interview a month ago with Sean Salisbury, and D-Mac was hurt by it and said how unprofessional it was. Hypocrite!