My first love is baseball, so if I had the kind of coin that Rob Walton does, I’d make Dick Monfort an offer he couldn’t refuse and buy the Rockies, so we could fix them.
Shane, Pleasant Hill, Iowa
Kiz: Well, as long as we’re dreaming, if I was worth $60 billion, the first toys I’d buy are a helicopter operation with access to skiing in British Columbia and maybe a small island in the Caribbean (like Grenada, perhaps). But enough about little old me. If you had $60 billion tucked in the mattress, what’s the first expensive new toy you would buy?
Mr. Walton will never purchase anything that will give him a better return on his investment than the Broncos. So yes, I would look to purchase an NFL team, if one became available. Which isn’t often.
Shannon Sharpe, Savannah State grad
Kiz: Mr. Sharpe, if you owned the Broncos and Skip Bayless owned the Cowboys, then you’d really have something to argue about.
When it’s time to build a new stadium for the Broncos in five years, I hope the Waltons pay for it and don’t hold Denver peeps hostage like Bills ownership did to their fans.
D.D., cost-conscious
Kiz: Fearful their beloved Bills might flee across the border to Canada, taxpayers have pledged nearly a billion dollars in funding for a new stadium. Let’s pray the crazy-rich Waltons don’t use that bit of taxpayer foolishness as a template.
Walmart is bad for America and I hate that their corporation owns my beloved football team.
Matty, shops with purpose
Kiz: I hear your gripe. But I want to know: What will you do if the day comes when a Walmart patch adorns every Bentonville Broncos uniform? Will you forsake the local NFL team and only watch the Nuggets on television? Wait … what? Oops. My apologies for reminding you of another grievance against our local Walmart sports empire.
I’m just hoping that now I can walk into my Walmart in San Antonio and buy Broncos gear instead of that God-forsaken Dallas Cowboys stuff.
B.V., stuck deep in the heart
Kiz: I will humbly ask somebody at Broncos headquarters to pass along your request to new CEO Greg Penner.
Kiz, I just received my copy of “Avalanche Season,” the book published by The Denver Post in salute to the new Stanley Cup champs. I’m sending it to my dad in Steamboat as a belated 90th-birthday gift. I met him for the first time in February 2018, as I was adopted way back in 1950. We have a love of sports in common and even share some facial expressions.
Don, sharing the love
Kiz: The coolest thing about sports is the bond they can create with people in our lives. PS: Buy “Avalanche Season” for the memories of a lifetime, stay for the awesome pictures by our amazing Denver Post photographers.
And today’s parting shot might be a swipe at little old humble me if I’m not mistaken.
Markie Mark, you’re accusing Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of self-aggrandizing bombast? The irony just melted my computer.
T.P., needs new laptop
