The worst Christmas ever proved to be the gift that keeps on giving to the Denver Broncos.

Amid the hot mess of a humiliating 51-14 loss in Los Angeles on the final Sunday of 2022, it was extremely hard to see any easy way out for a once-proud NFL team.

But it certainly showed new Broncos owner Greg Penner there was no time to waste in making major changes to a franchise that had lost its way.

“On the football side,” Penner told me. “I definitely underestimated what was coming during that first season (of ownership), and what it was going to take to get us to a really competitive level.”

In less than 1,000 sunrises since that Christmas Day Disaster, the Broncos have not only been rebuilt, but completely remade.

There’s a new coach, new quarterback, new practice facility, new culture.

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