Years from now, when this wild Sunday in Broncos history comes up in conversation, nobody will cop to leaving early.
Nobody will acknowledge that, yeah, they missed that finish.
That fourth quarter.
That comeback.
Heck, by Monday morning at the water cooler, every soul at Empower Field to start the game will have stuck it out to the euphoric-turned-bitter-turned-euphoric again end of a never-before-seen afternoon.
They weren’t the ones, they’ll say, responsible for the clogged exits after yet another lifeless Broncos offensive possession. Or for the wide swaths of empty seats in the upper deck that formed after the New York Giants put the game in a vice grip with a three-score lead late in the third quarter and put the Broncos on shutout watch.
To be fair, it’d be difficult to bl