In early January, the wheels of the Broncos’ plane touched down in Denver, and Garett Bolles’ hopes of a dream run were left frozen back in Buffalo. He’d known disappointment for many years. Never quite like this.

He was hurt. But he didn’t go home.

A half mile from Broncos Park in Englewood, the kids at Marvin W. Foote Youth Services Center rise at 6:30 a.m. They sit in the mornings and discuss their goals in a world that has left many of them behind. They take classes run by the Cherry Creek School District. And sometimes — a lot of times — they will get a visit from the man they call “GB.” He is a 300-pound Santa, bearing gifts for the kids who stay on track: buckets of wings, shoes, a bike.

He always says he’ll leave at five. Eugene Forbes, director of the Foote Center, knows he

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