Sports Reporter
With respect to all you Bronco football fans cheering on Peyton Manning’s conquest of winning a Super Bowl for Denver, and in honor of the October birthday of the great poet E.E. Cummings, here’s a poem commemorating the subpar quarterbacks who played before Manning:
In Bronco town
The fans quit hatin’
Thanking heaven
For a Bronco named Peyton.
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Many QB’s
All tried and most failed
To do what Manning
Has nearly nailed:
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Save the Broncos,
Fulfill their goal
Of making and winning
A real Super Bowl.
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Winning rings
They could not do,
Except for Elway,
He brought you two.
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40 arms before Manning,
Elway lives in fame,
Where are the rest?
The Hall of Shame.
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One was good in college,
his name was Ram-sey.
But when he turned pro,
He played horribly.
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One was Tripucka
And after him Herring.
Then Shaw and Slaughter,
Rings they’re not wearing.
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Three Johns, two Craigs,
A Jay and a Jake,
Three Steves, one Tim,
A baby, a Snake.
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Tim Tebow and Orton,
A guy named Don Breaux,
The Denver fans were glad
To see them all geaux.
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They came and they went:
With Craig Penrose,
DeBerg and Griese,
enough of these shmoes!
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But now there is Peyton,
To all Denver’s glee,
God forbid Manning
Takes free agency.
scschroc@mavs.coloradomesa.edu
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