Would LeBron James joining the Nuggets be as big as when Peyton Manning joined the Denver Broncos?

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**Zac Stevens** (0:30)
PFM. PFM. PFM. We're talking about Peyton freaking Manning on today's show. We're going to do it for her.
Yeah, yeah, kind of. Yeah, I don't want to turn everyone off from the show right now. And we're going to do it through the eyes of the Nuggets pursuit of LeBron James. Is this as big as Peyton Manning was? I'm going to ask that question. I think we're going to have some firm answers on that. We're going to do it live in the Toyota Lounge, driven by your local Front Range Toyota Stores. We are the DNVR Broncos Podcast. Arcade to my left, Hank to my right. We got you here behind the camera, Zac Rockin and rolling with you today. Fellas, happy hump day.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (1:13)
Happy hump day. Feels like it came here early.
I don't know why.

**Zac Stevens** (1:17)
Yeah, that's great.

**Henry Chisholm** (1:18)
I thought yesterday was Monday all day.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (1:20)
Yeah, that's kind of how I felt.

**Zac Stevens** (1:21)
That's a good realization.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (1:22)
It is a great realization. So yeah, it's a good day today.

**Zac Stevens** (1:27)
It is. It is. And I'm looking forward to this conversation. I don't know if the chat loves it that much, but we get to relive Peyton Manning.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (1:36)
Yeah, don't let a vocal minority. Yeah, let's spoil it in the chat.

**Zac Stevens** (1:40)
That is very true. And man, let's just write off the bat. Is Wood LeBron James signing with the Denver Nuggets? And he's what? Down to six teams or so. Then the Nuggets are a part of five.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (1:54)
There's kind of been conflicting reports, but yeah, I mean, it feels like the Nuggets are a fringe candidate.

**Zac Stevens** (1:59)
A fringe candidate. What did it feel like when Peyton Manning was first started off? Did it feel like the Broncos are going to land him?

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (2:06)
No. It didn't to me. It really didn't. I remember there was a Texans, Titans, the Tennessee connection felt like it was powerful.

**Henry Chisholm** (2:18)
Forty-niners were in there for a second, right?

**Zac Stevens** (2:20)
Cardinals were really in there. He flew down there.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (2:23)
Yeah. And I just remember thinking like, why us?
You know?
Which is funny because now I don't feel that way anything. I think it's because Peyton Manning came here. Now I'm always like, why not us? But the other thing, of course, was Tim Tebow had developed a accurately named cult following here in Colorado. And there, I think at least half of the media was kind of like, we don't need Peyton Manning. We have Tim Tebow. He's younger. He's fresh. He's, you know, he just won a playoff game. I mean, it's crazy to think you have this young quarterback who just won a playoff game, a first round pick quarterback. Yeah. And like it was very divisive, obviously, for many reasons, which we've talked about on the show a lot. The number one reason being that he never looked good, but somehow the winds would appear.

**Henry Chisholm** (3:18)
Also, I feel like we haven't heard about Tim Tebow in a long time. Like it used to be like, it feels like every day on Twitter, somebody be saying like the Broncos should have Tebow. Like the Tebow thing has dried up, I'd say in the last like four years.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (3:31)
Yeah. I remember someone saying like after a big loss that like the Broncos were cursed by Tebow. I was like, they won a Super Bowl after.

**Henry Chisholm** (3:39)
Right.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (3:40)
That doesn't, that's not how curses work.

**Henry Chisholm** (3:41)
Yeah.

**Zac Stevens** (3:42)
Boy, that's, I thought the Tebow stuff died immediately when Peyton Manning signed.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (3:46)
No, no, no, no. But to your point, it was like for 90% of people.

**Henry Chisholm** (3:56)
Right.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (3:56)
It was immediate like, all right, yeah, whatever. And I think there was also probably maybe not even 90, 80% of people were like, yeah, we're good. 10% of people were like, keep Tebow as the backup because Peyton won't be around forever. Let him learn under Peyton.