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When you say the words “Denver” and “Mile High Stadium”, one image comes to mind for every single Clevelander, most Ohioans, and Browns fans everywhere.  This image.  Earnest Byner, after a heroic day totalling 67 yards rushing, 7 receptions for 120 yards, and 2 touchdowns, fumbling the ball before falling into the end zone for what seemed like the game-tying touchdown.

Agony does not describe the feeling of that moment.  In fact, there isn’t a word in the English language to do this moment justice.  Now, however, I will have a new, happier moment from Denver’s Mile High Stadium is mentioned, even if now it’s called Invesco Field.

In a break with tradition, Barack Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination at Invesco Field at Mile High, a 76,000-seat stadium, rather than at the site of the party’s national convention across town.

Now, I’m not so much of a Cleveland-homer that I expect Barack to make some mention of Cleveland fans and their agony on that patch of land, in addition to an inevitable shout out to Bronco fans, but I can…ahem….hope.  

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