DOVE VALLEY, Colo. — Vic Fangio strolls out of the Broncos’ offices and out onto the practice field in a long-sleeve, crew-neck sweatshirt, khaki shorts and those elemental black-and-white low-top Nike sneakers that seemingly every football coach of the last century has owned a pair of. It’s 76 degrees going on 90, and the Broncos will practice for the better part of three hours, chugging through one high-tempo drill after another under the bright sun.
Those who know the 60-year-old first-time head coach say he is less a man obsessed with reenacting the past as he is someone informed by it, which means that a practice is a study in both contrasts and compromises.