DENVER — In between the boos, you could almost make out the sound of Pete Carroll cackling from 1,300 miles away. The way a used car salesman cackles when a lemon leaves the lot.
Al Michaels, the consummate pro, could barely contain the guffaws while his microphone was hot. Kirk Herbstreit was still shaking his head in the press elevator Thursday night during the descent to field level, no doubt planning his escape to some other football town. A land where the natives don’t want to duct tape their season tickets to a cinder block and fling them straight into the Rio Grande gorge.
“You know, I’m glad,” Colts tailback Phillip Lindsay, the former Broncos Pro Bowler, CU Buff and Denver South star, offered after Indianapolis (ugh) 12, Broncos (yuck) 9, an overtime loss that left America snickering as it sent Broncos Country into a seething rage.
