In February, early into the busiest, wildest, most jet-lagged off-season in NFL history, Von Miller flies from the NBA Allu2011Star festivities in Toronto to New York City so he can appear on Saturday Night Live. The week before, he had delivered the Broncos’ victory in Super Bowl 50, then partied all night with rapper Lil’ Wayne.
Backstage at SNL, after assisting with Weekend Update and trolling his title game opponent with a digression on gravitational waves—“these waves are everywhere in the universe, just like I’m everywhere when Cam Newton closes his eyes”—Miller bumps into another rapper, Kanye West.