This is the second and final column on the Denver Broncos' most significant fullbacks, and the focus today is on, by far the greatest Denver fullback and one of the greatest players that many have never heard of, Cookie Gilchrist.
No one should feel guilt about not knowing Cookie -- he played in the 1950s and 1960s -- but there is no question about his credentials.
I only met and talked to him a few times, first at a Broncos Alumni Reunion weekend and later by phone. He called me, which was a shock to me -- one of the most remarkable of my four decades in pro football -- as Cookie had become a very, very reclusive individual in his later days, due frankly to disenchantment with the game and later to illness.