However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

The sci-fi sitcom Mork & Mindy also based a 1979 episode around the Denver Broncos cheerleaders with Mork ( Robin Williams ) trying out for the squad.

Several highways are also named for him, including the Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate 290 ) near Chicago and the Eisenhower Tunnel on Interstate 70 west of Denver.

It also has the naming rights to the Pepsi Center, an indoor sports facility in Denver, Colorado.

Elway finished the game with 385 passing yards, 3 touchdowns, and no interceptions, while also leading Denver in rushing with 5 carries for 39 yards.

The Falcons, under former Denver head coach Dan Reeves, were making their first Super Bowl appearance after also posting a 14-2 regular season record.

They not only deny Ryan any credit for an innovative Middle East peace plan, but also panic when terrorists detonate a nuclear bomb in Denver during the Super Bowl and nearly plunge the world into a Soviet-American nuclear war.

The Denver Mint also produces circulating coinage, mint sets and commemoratives.

Denver may also refer to:

* Denver omelette, a type of omelette also called a western omelette

This road also gives access to State Highway 62, the main route to Denver, Montrose and other important places in Colorado.

In 2009, John Scannella and Denver Fowler supported the separation of T. prorsus and T. horridus, and noted that the two species are also separated stratigraphically within the Hell Creek Formation, indicating that they did not live together at the same time.

These projects and others in New Mexico were necessitated because these stretches of I-25 were inadequately designed and constructed originally ( the pavement was deteriorating rapidly ), and also because urban areas like Denver, Colorado Springs, and Albuquerque had tripled and quadrupled in population much earlier than anyone had anticipated back in the 1950s and 1960s.

Denver was also a guest star on The Muppet Show, the beginning of the lifelong friendship between Denver and Jim Henson that spawned two television specials with The Muppets.

Denver was also appointed by President Jimmy Carter to serve on the President's Commission on World Hunger, writing the song " I Want to Live " as its theme song.

" Denver was also critical of the Republican-dominated Congress and American Conservatism of the 1990s.

Wirth also organized the Senate Task Force on the Expansion of Major League Baseball, which became a major factor in the awarding of a new expansion franchise to Denver.

It was also a hit in such cities as Los Angeles, Portland, Denver, Cincinnati and Washington D. C. However it was a financial disappointment in the midwest and most other cities in the U. S. To the surprise of RKO, when it premiered in New York on March 3, 1938 at Radio City Music Hall it only made $ 70, 000 and was pulled after only 1 week to make way for Jezebel starring Bette Davis.

The Green Bay Packers also played the Denver Broncos in a preseason game in 1987.

Evans would go on to make significant important contributions to the early Denver community and while Chivington also made some, his reputation remained tainted while Evans is still honored today.

In addition, the city serves as a " bedroom " community to commuters in many directions: to employment locations in Boulder, Westminster and other parts of the Denver Metropolitan area ; and also to the college towns of Fort Collins ( CSU ), Greeley ( UNC ), and Boulder, ( CU ).

In the summer of 2010 he also spoke in Washington, DC at the 41st Annual DC Smoke-In and in Denver, CO at Cannabis Festiva.

General James Denver is also buried in Wilmington.

In addition to its main offices in Hollywood, SAG also maintains local branches in several major US cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D. C.

Soon after the USA Today article appeared, The Denver Post published an article featuring many Rockies players contesting the claims made in the USA Today article.

She appeared in a John Denver TV special in 1974.

Only four teams have appeared in more Super Bowls than the Redskins: the Pittsburgh Steelers ( 8 ), Dallas Cowboys ( 8 ), New England Patriots ( 7 ), and Denver Broncos ( 6 ).

No guest star ever appeared twice on The Muppet Show, although John Denver appeared both on the show and in two specials ( John Denver & the Muppets: A Christmas Together and John Denver & the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday ).

However, a new wrinkle appeared when the city of Denver refused to transfer the parcel of land on which the Pepsi Center stood unless Sturm promised to keep the Avalanche and Nuggets in Denver for at least 25 years.

However, a new wrinkle appeared when the city of Denver refused to transfer the parcel of land on which the Pepsi Center stood unless Sturm promised to keep the Avalanche and Nuggets in Denver for at least 25 years.

During 1920 – 25, she appeared with Professor George Morrison's Melody Hounds, a touring black ensemble, and in the mid-1920s she embarked on a radio career, singing with the Melody Hounds on station KOA in Denver.

In 1988 she appeared as " Buffy Denver " on the sitcom Newhart playing a character that was even more self-centered and vain than Stephanie.

While he was on Dobie Gillis, Denver also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood.

He is remembered primarily as a comic actor, yet Denver also appeared in one dramatic role on television, as a physician ( Dr. Paul Garrett ) in one episode of Dr. Kildare, telecast on October 10, 1963.

The film appeared in several film festivals including South by Southwest, the Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Boston Film Festival, and Denver International Film Festival ; it won Best Documentary at both the Savannah Film and Video Festival and the Kudzu Film Festival.

They have appeared in the Louisiana Superdome for the New Orleans Saints, in the Trans World Dome for the St. Louis Rams, at Arrowhead Stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs, and at Mile High Stadium for the Denver Broncos.

Bernstein's essays and writing have appeared in publications such as The Nation, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, Dallas Morning News, Vibe, Helicon Nine Reader, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The London Observer, Utne Reader, Mother Jones, San Francisco Chronicle, Kyoto Journal, Spin, The Progressive, and The Village Voice.

Southwest Airways and its successors including Pacific Air Lines and Hughes Airwest ( which previously operated as Air West ) served the airport from 1956 until 1979, and Continental appeared with Boeing 737 service to Denver for a year or so in 1987-88.

* He appeared on Bonanza, playing a character named Mort in the 1960 episode " Denver McKee ".

This may be the case if the guest is an athlete or coach in Washington to play a game that night, such as when Los Angeles Clippers guard Chauncey Billups appeared on February 6, 2009, prior to the Denver Nuggets ' ( with whom Billups was playing with at the time ) game with the Washington Wizards.

After two seasons of summer stock in Surry, Maine, he starred as Daniel Boone for the first three years ( 1952 – 1954 ) of Horn in the West in Boone, North Carolina and then moved to Denver, Colorado, where he appeared in about forty stage productions, in various theatre companies.