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Sean Keeler

Sean Keeler: How Broncos’ trade for Russell Wilson changed lives of Denverites who share his name: 'He wanted to punch me in the face.'

DENVER — They’ll let Russ cook, but they won’t let this Russell Wilson eat without shooting him a funny look? Or threatening to pop him in the kisser?

“A couple weeks ago, I was picking up an order at Sunnyside Supper Club, and the guy at (the front) was making a joke,” Wilson — no, not that one — recalled to The Denver Post recently. “He was like, ‘Did you just put that down as a fake name?’ (I told him) ‘No.’ I get it all the time. It’s never really a negative.”

Well, almost never. See, there was the time Russell Wilson — nope, still not that one — made the mistake of getting a pizza delivered to him along the Front Range the night of Super Bowl XLVIII. You know, at the same time the Broncos were getting plucked like a chicken by that other Wilson and the Legion of Boom.

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