For the Denver Nuggets, the first 25 games mean everything

“It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish that matters.”

A proverb taught in sports and in life, this phrase has helped me through difficult parts of my life. I have told a variety of tales about my life outside of “Denver Stiffs Writer” ranging from baseball injuries to why I became a basketball fan. This time, with Week 1 of the NFL season in the books, I’m going to tell a football story.

From a young age, I was a gifted football player, not in the sense of athletic gifts (though I wasn’t half bad in the open field), but as a cerebral player. My two best traits on the football field were always my hand-eye coordination and my ability to see and make the right play. Growing up, I played…