His wife thinks he’s a few Nix shy of a load.
See, the other day, an old acquaintance of Jamie Teumer’s rang him up with the most indecent of Denver proposals.
“I’ll send you $5,000 for Broncos playoff tickets,” the voice said. “Or a blank check.”
We’d love to tell you that Teumer replied by screaming “How dare you!” and then hung up the phone in disgust.
But a couple could do a lot of damage with a spare $5K in their mitts, let alone a blank check. Aruba. Vienna. Paris in the spring. London after midnight.
“You’re going to sell them yours,” Teumer’s wife told him. “Right?”
“Well …”
Blank. Check.
“Umm …”
Blank.
Check.
“Ya know …”
BLANK.
CHECK.
After about 15 seconds of hemming and other 12 of hawing, Teumer took a deep breath.
“There was a definite pause,” the longtime Broncos season ticket-holder and former medical director at UCHealth’s Medical Center of the Rockies told me Tuesday. “(But) I just thought, ‘Gosh, I can’t do this.’
“In my house, there’s God, there’s family. And right below family is the Broncos.”
Broncos Country wants a seat on this postseason train, kids. Cost be darned.
Starting next weekend, Denver will be hosting NFL playoff games — two of them, hopefully — for the first time since January 2016, when Peyton Manning, Von Miller and The No Fly Zone marched the Broncos to Super Bowl 50.
Denver clinched the No. 1 seed in the AFC this past Sunday with a win over the Los Angeles Chargers, giving the Broncos a bye to recoup and reload until the AFC’s Divisional Round on Jan. 17 or Jan. 18.
With a wide-open AFC bracket that’s missing generational quarterbacks such as Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes, Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson and Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow, orange and blue spirits are justifiably high. Unfortunately, so’s the cover charge.
You ready for this? As of Tuesday afternoon, the lowest “get-in” price for a AFC Divisional Round seat next weekend was $474 via the secondary ticketing site TickPick.com. That’s only $79 less than the combined lowest-price tickets for Jaguars-Bills ($211), Patriots-Chargers ($200) and Texans-Steelers ($142). The cheapest single seat on the site for a potential AFC Championship game in Denver as of mid-day Tuesday was $1,152.
“As you look at it now, I think people are a little less confident going into this (postseason),” said Teumer, who’s had Broncos season tickets for almost 25 years straight. “But they also seem to think that — when you sit in the stands, and you hear this all the time from people when the game’s not going well. People keep saying, ‘Wait ’til the end.’ And then, boom, we do it. They’re never boring.
“At the same time, how many lives does the cat have left?”
Jamie doesn’t doubt that the Broncos (14-3) still have the goods to land on their feet. And eventually find those feet at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara. Teumer’s got more than one set of skins in these playoff games. Craig Morton, the Broncos’ first Super Bowl quarterback, is a good friend and resides in the Bay Area. The two try to get together and hang out in San Francisco every time Jamie’s birthday rolls around in July.
Teumer’s planning on watching the AFC Championship in the north end zone of Empower Field with three of his sons. In fact, they’re the same seats where the four of them watched Manning beat Tom Brady in the 2015 AFC title game, the last-ever on-field tussle between the two NFL legends.
Faith. Family. Football. One of those sons, by the way, used to teach English for two years down in Colombia. To let you know just how deep orange and blue runs in the Teumers’ collective blood, that son made a point to find a bar in South America that could show Broncos games on Sundays. He even landed a place to live that was within walking distance of that watering hole.
Teumer’s acquaintance eventually landed those playoff tickets, by the way.
“I want the very best,” she told Jamie.
“Let me help you,” he countered. “I’ll figure something out.”
Which he did. With as twist. Rather than give up his own seats, Teumer called in a favor of his own. He knew of another family of Broncos season-ticket holders who were getting a little older, a couple that had run into some health problems recently that made going to home games more of a slog.
Terms were arranged, and that was that. Good seats, too — ’round about the 30-yard-line.
“When I got this thing set up for her,” Teumer recalled, “I heard (her son) in the background screaming, ‘Oh my Goddddddd.'”
The wacky part? That whole blank-check deal is only the second-craziest offer Teumer has ever heard of when it came to snatching a Broncos playoff ticket.
In those Mike Shanahan salad days of the late ’90s, Jamie remembers a doctor with a family practice that he knew deciding to place an ad. In it, said doctor was seeking a pair of Broncos Super Bowl tickets in exchange for a free vasectomy.
“Which I thought,” Teumer laughed, “was a very unique approach.”
It worked, too. Broncomaniacs may not be ready to cut off a limb for postseason seats. But they’ll come awfully, awfully close.
“My wife might get on the phone and disagree,” Teumer said, “but no, I can’t imagine there’s any priced offer that gets me to sell playoff tickets.”
Two home games away from Super Bowl weekend? If it’s a debate between PS2 and Mariner III, Teumer laughed, that’s no contest.
“(This) is probably the (Broncos team) that drives you nuts,” he said, “more than any one (group) I can think of in the past.”
It’s January. The road to the Super Bowl runs through Colfax. Better to be on the wrong side of sanity than the wrong side of history.
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