David Adelman doesn’t share an opinion with most Denver residents about that Ja’Quan McMillian interception.
“I heard it was a catch,” he said, “but they said it wasn’t.”
He was watching from Ball Arena, where the Nuggets were about to begin their second half of the NBA season Saturday night. Denver’s collective attention was decidedly not on basketball. The Broncos were fighting for their lives on the opposite side of I-25. About an hour before the Nuggets and Wizards tipped off, McMillian emerged from another form of jump ball with possession. Did Bills receiver Brandin Cooks complete a catch before it was ripped away from him on the ground? Did the Broncos’ cornerback win a 50-50 ball fair and square?
Questions that will be litigated for years in Colorado and upstate New York. Adelman grew up in the Pacific Northwest and has lived in Denver since 2017, yet his lifelong loyalties lie with the Bills.
“That’s been my team, for the losing seasons and all the things. So people can say whatever they want,” he said. “I was there when Josh Allen was not there.”
Adelman’s take on the Broncos’ controversial season-saving interception corresponds with his fandom, naturally. But he also took a moment to get sincere this weekend, extending sympathy toward Bo Nix after the quarterback suffered a season-ending ankle injury in Denver’s 33-30 overtime win.
“Amazing game. Super happy for Denver. But I feel terrible for Bo Nix,” he said. “Coming out of a game like that, that’s so classic and all-time. … Stuff like that in sports, you hate seeing, because it’s not deserved after a game like that. You want the team that moves on to go with the momentum they have, so the next game is as good.”
Adelman adopted one of the most cursed fandoms in American sports when he was growing up in Portland, Oregon. He was 9 years old when the Bills lost their first of four consecutive Super Bowls. He has stuck with them through the misery of “wide right,” through 18 years between playoff berths, through the tantalizing Allen era and four season-ending losses to Patrick Mahomes’ Chiefs. He can go down memory lane on command.
“Jim Kelly. K-Gun (offense). Thurman Thomas. Darryl Talley. Bruce Smith. We could go on and on,” he said. “Mark Kelso. That team was fun to play Madden with. That team was on at 10 a.m. on the West Coast. So that was my team.”
Adelman was juggling the NFL divisional round with prep for his own game on Saturday, but that was better than the alternative. He remembers being midgame during the classic “13 seconds” playoff finish between Buffalo and Kansas City a few years ago. Adelman, an assistant coach at the time, turned to Nuggets media relations director Cody Wise a few times, looking for a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. “Definitely was in the back of my mind,” he said, laughing.
Football was still fresh on Denver’s collective mind during the Nuggets’ weekend back-to-back against Washington and Charlotte. Fans wore more orange than usual to Ball Arena, and Jamal Murray joked after a 121-115 win Saturday that “it was kind of dead in there for a little bit because everybody was on the Broncos game. So I feel like they got to us and it was like, ‘Eh, whatever.'”
“I think everybody was still on a high from the Broncos game,” Tim Hardaway Jr. said. “Congrats to those guys. Huge win. But yeah, I think they all came over here, and all their energy was gone.”
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“It’s a win-win for me,” he insisted before the Broncos showdown. “If the Bills win, I’ll be very excited. If the Broncos win, it’s good for the town. Good for the city.”
He stayed true to that sentiment when asked about the result, reiterating that a Broncos deep playoff run is “really cool” for the community.
Just know which side of history he’s on regarding a certain play in overtime.
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