A million football lovers in Colorado can’t be wrong.
Since the Rocky Mountain Showdown moved to Denver in 1998, there’s only one time during the entire football season when either the Buffaloes or Rams are the biggest game in town. It’s the night when Colorado and Colorado State buckle up the chinstraps and bump helmets with each other.
Are CU athletic director Rick George and Joe Parker, his counterpart at CSU, the only two guys in our fair state who actually have trouble understanding that?
Let’s do the math. While some of my friends from Boulder and Fort Collins like to howl about playing this game in Denver rather on campus sites, the Rams and Buffs have attracted nearly 1.