It is always a pleasure to reunite with a Denver Broncos alumnus, but it will be particularly gratifying for me to do so next Tuesday in New York City.
For on that day, at the annual National Football Foundation banquet, former Broncos quarterback Marlin Briscoe will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his great college career at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
On the surface, this honor sounds like just another college quarterback getting his due, but Briscoe has a unique place in history as the first African-American quarterback to start a pro-football game.