The Denver Broncos lost one of our former coaches when Babe Parilli passed away on Saturday morning.
Andrew Mason wrote a wonderful tribute piece on Babe that appears on our web site, but I have a few thoughts that I thought I might share with our readers.
Those who knew Babe just loved him, and I count myself among those numbers.
He was our quarterback coach when I joined the Broncos in 1978, and here are a few things that many might not know but that I find fascinating:
His given name was Vito, but he had one of the greatest nicknames ever, "The Sweet Kentucky Babe.