A lively social media discussion erupted late last week regarding a juicy but mostly irrelevant statistic.
Since 2001, the Denver Broncos were 6-0 in games refereed by Ed Hochuli. Their only loss in his 16-year NFL career came in the ninth game he ever refereed -- on Nov. 14, 1999 -- and there had been an unusual seven-year gap between Broncos games he worked.
Those games, of course, spanned different front offices, coaches, rosters and officiating crew members -- not to mention a total of 154 Broncos victories in games refereed by someone other than Hochuli.