Red Miller was selected Thursday to become the 32nd member of the Denver Broncos’ Ring of Fame. He’ll be inducted at a game during the 2017 season. The bare facts: He was head coach of the Broncos’ first Super Bowl team, in the 1977 season, and was with Denver through the 1980 season until new owner Edgard Kaiser replaced him with Dan Reeves.
But there’s much more to it.
I don’t mean this to be demeaning to anyone, but to understand what Miller meant to this franchise and, yes, this city, in a transformative time for both, it helped to be here.