ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- If Adam Gotsis scrolls through the calendar pages he’s already flipped in his life and digs deep, he can point to the exact moment he discovered football.
American football, that is, and it had to be discovered, mined from the sports landscape, because Gotsis is Australian and, well, American football is not.
“It was Madden ’07, the video game, the one with Shaun Alexander on the cover,’’ Gotsis said. “I think my mom or my brother got it somewhere. We just played a bit of that. We didn’t really understand it much, we didn’t know what we were doing, we just threw the deep ball every time.