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 Browns took the ball back and drove to the Denver 8-yard line, but the drive ended with a play that became known as The Fumble resulting more bad luck in Cleveland professional sports lore: Denver defensive back Jeremiah Castille stripped the football from Browns running back Ernest Byner and recovered the ensuing fumble as Byner was rushing in for the potential tying touchdown, securing the Broncos ' win.

Immediately after the Broncos got the ball back, Smith broke ahead of Falcons safety Eugene Robinson, caught a pass from Elway, and took off for an 80-yard touchdown reception, giving Denver a 17-3 lead ( the fourth 80 + yard touchdown pass play in Super Bowl history ).

Swift, who was observing the eclipse from a location near Denver, Colorado, saw what he took to be an intra-mercurial planet about 3 degrees southwest of the Sun.

Eventual foreclosure and sale of the original Denver and Rio Grande Railway resulted within two years and the new Denver and Rio Grande Railroad took formal control of the property and holdings on July 14, 1886 with Jackson appointed as president.

Although RCA did not actively promote Rhymes & Reasons with a tour, Denver himself embarked on an impromptu supporting tour throughout the Midwest, stopping at towns and cities as the fashion took him, offering to play free concerts at local venues.

Soon it took on its original name, South Golden Road, as the southern road from Denver to Golden.

Denver took a positive step in rebuilding by drafting 7 – 2 Georgetown University center Dikembe Mutombo in 1991.

After releasing " Love again " in duet with John Denver, a # 85 single on Billboard Hot 100 in 1984, she took a break from show business.

In 1882, the Utah Fuel Company took over the mine and town and it soon became a subsidiary of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.

Subsequently, UP took over three Mormon-built roads: the Utah Central Rail Road extending south from Ogden, Utah, to Salt Lake City, the Utah Southern Railroad extending south from Salt Lake City into the Utah Valley, and the Utah Northern Railroad extending north from Ogden into Idaho ; and it built or absorbed local lines that gave it access to Denver and to Portland, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest.

After stops in Denver and Chicago, he and Quappi later took an apartment at 38 West 69th Street in Manhattan.

In 1993, Ells took what he learned in San Francisco and opened the first Chipotle () in Denver, Colorado, in a former Dolly Madison Ice Cream Store near the University of Denver campus using an $ 85, 000 loan from his father.

Producer Spelling, already well known for his successful ABC series, including Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Vega $, and Hart to Hart, took on Richard and Esther Shapiro's vision of a rich and powerful family who " lived and sinned " in a 48-room Denver mansion.

Unlike the original series, which took place in San Francisco, California, the reunion took place in Denver, Colorado ( with the excuse that Ed Brown had become the city's deputy chief of police and being a leading candidate to be appointed chief ), which was also where most of the Perry Mason TV movies were produced.

In the 1970 ABA Playoffs The Caps faced the Denver Rockets in the Western Division semifinals and took the series to seven games before losing 143-119 in the finale in Denver.

Flight 629 was using a Douglas DC-6B airliner that took off from Denver, Colorado's Stapleton Airfield ( later changed to Stapleton Airport ), bound for Portland, Oregon with continuing service to Seattle, Washington, on the evening of November 1, 1955.

In 1937 the airline moved to Denver, Colorado when Robert Six took over the airline.

The 2005 game took place in Denver, Colorado on Saturday, July 2, 2005.

* In On the Road, Riverdale-educated Jack Kerouac writes about getting off at a subway stop in Riverdale: " Filled with dreams of what I'd do in Chicago, in Denver, and then finally in San Fran, I took the Seventh Avenue Subway to the end of the line at 242nd Street, and there took a trolley into Yonkers ; in downtown Yonkers I transferred to an outgoing trolley and went to the city limits on the east bank of the Hudson River.

Lord Peter's was born the second of the three children of Mortimer Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver, and Honoria Lucasta Delagardie, who lives on throughout the novels as the Dowager Duchess of Denver.

Yet Denver trailed by only 13 points as the second half began, and on the opening drive of the second half, the Broncos moved the ball deep into Dallas territory.

Denver then won the AFC Championship Game in an exciting game over the AFC Central champion Cleveland Browns 38-33 for the second consecutive year.

Aided by quarterback John Elway's 80-yard touchdown pass to receiver Rod Smith, Denver scored 17 unanswered points to build a 17-3 lead in the second quarter that Atlanta could not recover from.

But Elway decided to stay with Denver and see if he could lead them to a second consecutive championship.

Some large cities where TV development was slow, like Pittsburgh and St. Louis, had only one station on the air for a prolonged period, many more of the largest cities such as Boston only had two, and many sizable cities including Denver and Portland, Oregon had no television service at all until the second half of 1952 after the freeze ended.

The 1995-96 Cup was the first major professional championship won by a Denver team and the Avalanche are the only team ( expansion or brand new ) in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup their first season after a relocation, and only the second team to win a championship their first season after a relocation in any of the four major North American sports leagues, following the Washington Redskins of the NFL.

Despite a 20 point improvement from last season's efforts, the team failed to reach the playoffs for the second straight year, the first time the Colorado club would do so in their 17 years playing in Denver.

Denver would almost do the same in the next round, falling to the Utah Jazz in Game 7 of the second round.

When the bell rang for the second season, they were able to put the Denver Nuggets away in five games.

With a 41 – 25 regular season record the Lakers entered the playoffs as the third seed, the team defeated the Denver Nuggets in the first round in seven games but were eliminated by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round in five games.

The book was suppressed for many years as the WSGA tracked down and destroyed all but a few of the first edition copies from 1894 printing and was rumored to have hijacked and destroyed the second printing as it was being shipped from a printer north of Denver, Colorado.

' Gilligan ' DVD drifts into port ," The Washington Post, February 8, 2004, page N1: < nowiki >"</ nowiki > To his credit, star Bob Denver lobbied Schwartz and others to change the lyrics to the theme song after the second season, so all the characters and not just most of them were listed.

Denver, Colorado | Denver, the second largest metropolitan area in the Southwest

Landrieu speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado | Denver, Colorado.

In the playoffs, he led the Spurs to a 4 – 1 series win over the Denver Nuggets in the opening round of the 2007 NBA Playoffs, a 4 – 2 win over the Phoenix Suns in the second round, and a 4 – 1 win against the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference Finals, setting up a meeting with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Finals.

* January 31 – Super Bowl XXXIII: The Denver Broncos win their second Super Bowl in a row, defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34 – 19 at Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida.

* Super Bowl XXII – The Washington Redskins win their second Super Bowl title and fourth NFL title 42 – 10 over the Denver Broncos.

Napolitano speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

In terms of land area, at, it is the largest airport in Texas, and the second largest in the United States, behind Denver International Airport.

The second edition simply disappeared somewhere between Denver, Colorado and Cheyenne, Wyoming and the Wyoming Stock Growers Association was rumored to have hijacked and destroyed the second printing as it was being shipped.