It’s a simple question with a thousand different answers. I’ll share mine here.
I lived in San Diego with my dad at the time. I was still trying to figure things out in life having just quit my first job at Jack in the Box, because they wouldn’t give me the AFC Championship game day off from work.
To me, the Denver Broncos were more important than anything else I had going on in my life at that time and they were on the cusp of the Super Bowl berth with the best team I’d ever seen them put on the field.