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Great incentive for the Chiefs, Raiders and Chargers to have him in our division.
I predict he won't even win the division. Denver backed in last year.
Despite "backing in" Denver, in Tebow's
luckiest finest game, put a (well-deserved) whipping on my
STEELERS. He threw for 3:18 yards!
Playing at "Mile High" is the ultimate home-field advantage. Unless even a highly conditioned athlete has acclimated to it for at least 10 days the altitude will take a toll.
In an extreme case of that I once saw the Bolivian National Team play Brasil in La Paz (
12,000'!).
Brasil kicked Bolivia all over the field in the first half, but in the second they ran like they had their feet in buckets.

Bolivia won 2-1 with a bicycle kick for the winning goal. Even though I am not a soccer fan I must admit that I have never seen a "scene" like that before or since: 70,000 in a sustained frenzy for 2 hours with thermo-nuclear JOY at the end. I swear, it made Heinz Field in "Terrible Towel mode" look like a prayer breakfast.
We Americans think NFL fans can get excited; believe me, you "
ain't seen nuttin' " on
THAT excitement scale!

South America now limits the maximum altitude at which "important" international matches may be played.
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