ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — There weren't many kids who bought Demaryius Thomas' Santa Claus disguise.
Thomas did his best to hide his face, occasionally pulling the uncomfortable fake beard up over the bottom of his nose and holding up the stuffing in his midsection that helped hide a physique that Santa's diet of cookies and milk could never maintain.
But the children, there at Pat Bowlen Fieldhouse for a Boys & Girls Club holiday party, were just as happy to see Thomas as they would have been for Santa Claus — or close to it, anyway.