by Peter Boyles | Dec 15, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
Blasting With Boyles
OPINION
Your Denver Broncos are owned by the Walton-Penner family ownership group. Led by Walmart heir Rob Walton, his daughter Carrie Walton Penner, and her husband Greg Penner. Rob Walton is the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, and he is the wealthiest owner in the NFL. Their family purchased your Denver Broncos in 2022 for 4.65-billion dollars. They lease Empower Field but are moving ahead with plans to build a new stadium across I-25 and next door to Ball Arena.
Ball Arena is owned by Stan Kroenke, head of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment. He also owns the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids, and Mammoth, along with the LA Rams, British soccer powerhouse Arsenal, and Altitude Sports. Kroenke is married to Rob Walton’s cousin, Ann Walton Kroenke.
A modern Hapsburg empire.
You have to have a program to understand all the connections. Your Broncos plan on moving to historic Burnham Yard, aiming for a new stadium opening date in 2031, creating a 150-acre stadium empire.
This is the Colorado version of Jerry World. That’s the AT&T Stadium in Texas for their Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones is a real modern-day operator, perhaps a monarch, and has built what some of the sports writers describe as what stadiums of the future will look like.
In 2001 you built your Broncos a new football stadium. The city doesn’t own the stadium in spite of what some people want you to believe. The Stadium District does. Remember, when the promoters realized they could not get their tax swindle passed by Denver voters alone, they expanded it into the RTD District to get the yuppies in Douglas County to put the stadium over.
The current lease is up at the end of the 2030 NFL season.
You all fondly remember Mile High Stadium; it was 54 years old when the taxpayers tore that down. This one will be barely 30 years when the new stadium is designated to open.
The cost for the new Empower Field to the taxpayers was 270-million dollars. That was 75 percent of the 400-million-dollar total price tag. I read a study from the Brookings Institute on how tax-exempt bonds play out for NFL stadiums resulting in 3.2 billion dollars across all NFL stadiums.
For me to attempt to understand leasing agreements, tax deals, and sales clauses is a very baffling endeavor, but one thing I walked away with is everybody seemed to be taken care of with the exception of the taxpayers.
The Bowlen family walked away, the new owners walked away, and, of course, now the new development flag is flown.
The entire valley will be redeveloped at a staggering amount of money. Guess whose pockets that money will go into.
Some people believe when the empire made the purchase of your Denver Broncos they had all of these plans in place and were going to recoup plus any money they initially shelled out to buy the team.
They will have a new stadium, they’ll redevelop the valley, and they’ll have a Jerry World of their own.
We have had long conversations about places like Lambeau and Soldier Field and Arrowhead, the traditional stadiums of the NFL. And now the real stinkers, these guys claim that Nissan Stadium is the worst deal the taxpayers got, Raymond James.
The question is how much do you think the taxpayers will be on the hook for the new move? The infrastructure and how the development of the valley will be priced. The NFL walks America with unbelievable power. Dare there be one elected official say no, or will the threat of we will move shut them down?
2031 really isn’t that far away. What would happen in Colorado to any office holder who would put a palm forward of the juggernaut of building new stadiums and say no, not here, not now? The foisted idea that’s supported by much of the sports media is, oh they’re going to pay for this on their own. If you read how Jerry Jones and others built empires for themselves, you’ll see the taxpayer foots a lot of the bill. I know the Broncos are winning and it makes the town happy. But how many of these have we seen before. The bond daddies cheer on, the family will have its way, and the politicians, whoever is in office at the time, will be at the ribbon-cutting, and some guy on the barstool next to you will say, “We’re going to get the Super Bowl.” At this point I always go “we?” What do you got a rat in your pocket? Because I think a lot of these people have a rat in theirs.
Maybe I’ll quit writing this column and become a Walmart greeter. Happy New Year.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Nov 17, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
Blasting With Boyles
OPINION
Once there was a shining spot which was Colorado in the 1970s — a type of Camelot. It’s worth noting that most historians believe in epochs or eras. The one that I’ve always been drawn to is what Jackie Kennedy dubbed Camelot. The very short presidency of John F. Kennedy. Also, again most historians see the sixties as not really beginning until Kennedy is assassinated in 1963, and the sixties don’t end until Richard Nixon resigns. I see a similarity that just occurred in the first week of November.
Dick Cheney dies but reappears in the speech by the newly-elected, Ugandan born, east Asian, democratic socialist Zohran Momdani. He’s the new face of the Democrat party as Cheney was a reflection of the past for Republicans.
Camelot, if you don’t know, was a legendary bright shining moment in Britain that the Kennedys attached themselves to. Jack Kennedy’s clearly King Arthur, Jackie fancied herself Guinevere, and Bobby was Lancelot.
I see Colorado in these terms. Many of us came here and came of age in what was once the bright shining spot, Colorado in the 1970s. It was a place for everyone whether Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or anything else.
In Boulder you would find 1960s like hippies and Soldier of Fortune magazine. We had John Denver making music in the mountains with Coors beer as the real champagne of beers. Ski tickets were affordable. Plenty of young men and women came here seeking their fortunes like the young knights came to Camelot. We were all sitting at the Round Table.
Today, Colorado is little more than a progressive hell hole which will eventually sink into a primordial quagmire. In the British legend Camelot was ruined by the deception of Lancelot and Arthur’s wife, and the devious actions of Arthur’s illegitimate child Mordred, out of wedlock, with his half-sister.
If anyone was our Arthur in the 1970s in Colorado it was Democratic Governor Dick Lamb. Just like Arthur who fought off the invading Angles and Saxons, Lamb fought off the real estate developers who hoped to overrun the state with hordes of yuppies using the lure of the Winter Olympics. But the Democrat voting masses from New York, Illinois, and California still seeped in even though Lamb had slayed the Winter Olympics dragon.
The final death knell for Colorado Camelot was Republican Governor Bill Owens who, in 2005, supported Referendums C and D to give billions to the government rather than the citizens of Colorado. Referendum C passed and fueled the population boom and the growth of government. This in turn propelled Ted Trimpa’s Blueprint for Colorado and the eventual total Democrat takeover of the state with the crushing of any and all dissent.
Now the darkness has taken over the state. If you remember the Colorado Camelot that was Hal Moore in afternoon drive screaming, I love you Denver, the Phipps, and the Broncos. The Mile High Miracle Broncos season of ’76-’77.
I know we’re speaking in allegories and symbols about a Camelot that we all loved turning into a place where now we rank in some of the lowest economic measurements, highest crime, and horrible traffic. We seem to be the epicenter of shootings. The ridiculousness of the Denver Mayor’s policies on homelessness. The historians who study the Arthurian legend call it the Matter of Britain. Now we have the Matter of Colorado.
When Arthur throws the sword, it was caught by the Lady of the Lake symbolizing a waiting for the return of the king. Who are we waiting for? Do you see anyone on the horizon? Barbara Kirchmeyer? Victor Marx? Michael Bennet? If we’re waiting for Michael Bennet we’re waiting for Godot.
So, like the Britons in their darkness we wait now for the next king to pull the sword from the stone.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Oct 20, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
Blasting With Boyles
OPINION
We’re now facing a Supreme Court decision on a Colorado law that we should see the answer to sometime in June. The case is called Chiles vs Salazar. Kaley Chiles is a licensed Christian counselor and argues that the 2019 ban on conversion therapy for minors infringes on her freedom of speech. The Court isn’t quite certain about conversion therapy if it’s speech or conduct.
Now let’s get into the way-back machine. I challenged everyone of our intelligentsia that reads our publication, can you recall the name of the first girl you kissed or the first boy who kissed you? I was playing baseball summer of 1956 on a team of older guys. And when the game was over there was a young woman, her first name to protect her, if she’s still alive, was Judy. And Judy let all the boys kiss her. I can remember the players on the entire team. I had no desire to kiss Terry Martin the third baseman or Chuckie Neff who played short stop. I only wanted to kiss Judy, and my entire life changed on that spot.
Now these Christian counselors believe that they can take a young gay boy or girl and make them straight. So, if it works one way it’s got to work the other. Do you think if a bunch of people threatened you with exorcism, making you stand in front of a congregation and confess your sins, wear a dress, boys only, and in some severe cases electroshock therapy was used, they would have changed you? You could have done all of those things, including putting a gun to my head, and I wouldn’t be gay.
Why does anyone in their right mind think that you can take a burgeoning young gay boy or girl and embarrass them into being straight. This pseudo-science has been outlawed in much of the known world. So, this really truly is insanity. Twenty-three states in our Union have outlawed this form of child torture. The civilized world also has turned this back. I would urge you to go to Doctor Google and read faith-based and religious practices, psychological techniques, physical and medical “physical intervention techniques” that these people want to perpetrate on age of awareness young Colorado boys and girls.
I never had a choice. I’ve talked to at least a dozen gay friends who also never had a choice.
Ask yourself this. Who would choose to be belittled, beaten up, made fun of, and in high school …choose it?
I know my uncle didn’t have a choice and his life was miserable. My life has also been miserable because I didn’t have that choice. God knows there were a couple of times in my life where I would have chosen gay. It would have made a lot of things easier and doubled my chances for a date on Friday night. But I was stuck with heterosexuality. And it’s very expensive, through divorce. I’m 0 for 2.
But for everything that you hold dear, logical thought, why would anyone allow this to be done to their children? And I’m beginning a study of the life of Jesus. Jesus never said anything about being gay. So, my advice to the Chistian therapist is go hit somebody else over their head with your Bible and leave these kids alone.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Sep 19, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
OPINION
As a young man there was a so-called Freudian question you would be asked. Do you know the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Can you name the Dwarfs? And whatever dwarf you could not name was you. To this day I can’t name the seven little suckers anyhow. But… I have seen them reemerge in the Colorado political scene.
Whether you want to believe it or not, 34 people have tossed their hat into the ring to be the next government of the Centennial State. Which dwarf can’t you name?
On the Democrat side of the ledger there are two declared candidates. Senator Michael Bennet and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. Standing in the wings is Ken Salazar, and wisely many of the other potential democrats who have declined to run. The choice is clear; do you want someone who snuffs out the baby (ie: Colorado) with a blanket (ie: Weiser) or slowly starves the baby (ie: Bennet).
Michael Bennet, as the political rumor now has it, potentially wins and then turns around and names Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who is term limited, to replace him as Senator. So, everybody keeps a job as Democrats representing our state.
We’ve been often quoting Barry Maguire in his song Eve of Destruction, and this is when I say, “Look around you boy. It’s bound to scare you boy.” And the Democrat party seems to have us on the eve of destruction.
If Bennet wins, it’s the slow boat to China but if Phil Weiser wins, we’ll be Sacramento in a flash.
Your Colorado Republican Party
There are 34 dwarfs and Barb Kirkmeyer who thinks she’s Snow White. Whichever of the 15 or 20 of the Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidates you can’t name — you are.
I don’t know 90 percent of these people. Do you know a Republican hasn’t been elected governor since 2002 and the GOP has not won a major statewide office since 2014.
Kirkmeyer has garnered a horrendous F/48 rating from the Liberty Scorecard meaning if you elect the leading Republican candidate she will be in essence no different than Michael Bennet.
I have a couple of favorites.
Do you remember Abass Yaya Bamba? He ran for Denver mayor in 2023, and for the president of the Ivory Coast in West Africa in 2020. Receiving 24 votes in his bid for Denver mayor. And God only knows how he did in the Ivory Coast,
You gotta love him. But my real sleeper is Joshua Griffin. The oldest Division I player in Colorado football. He played for CSU as a walk-on at age 33. Also, a combat veteran in the Middle East. Why can’t we pick a guy like that?
So, what do we have?
A lot of people.
Former Congressman (for six months) Greg Lopez. And Snow White. Representative Scott Bottoms, a Colorado Springs pastor fighting against gay marriage and apparently transgender people. All you need to be is anti-marijuana and anti-abortion and you have the trifecta of how not to win here in Colorado.
I realize it’s early in the game, but I thought you’d all like to know what a lineup is coming our way.
No caped crusaders, no heroes, just a bunch of mediocre dwarfs, or worse.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Aug 22, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
Blasting With Boyles
OPINION
Do Better Denver, known as @dobetter dnvr on x.com and Instagram, began its groundbreaking work with the concept of a secret identity where an individual maintains a public persona distinct from his/her true identity. I have had private communications with the person who launched the social media sites and when I told that person I was going to do this column, she asked me to tell you this: “My mission with @dobetterdnvr is to bring Denver’s drug and homelessness crisis into the spotlight by sharing video and information. I run my social media accounts with zero monetization, driven purely by a commitment to truth, transparency, and accountability. Not chasing money.”
This person’s fear is that Denver Mayor Mike Johnston will try to destroy her. The Denver Post is giving Johnston all the help it can with a recent hit piece on @dobetter dnvr, doxxing citizens journalists who requested public records from the city. Traditionally, the media serves as a watchdog to hold the powerful accountable. As the person who runs the Do Better Denver sites told me, “The Denver Post has inverted this role targeting me as a citizen journalist instead of scrutinizing those in power.”
We have a long history in literature, history, and popular culture of individuals protecting their identities and thus enabling them to operate outside of traditional media and establishment norms. Let me give you some great examples.
Clark Kent was Superman, by the way, a mild-mannered reporter. Bruce Wayne as the Batman. Peter Parker as Spiderman. Tony Stark as Ironman.
The Federalist Papers were written under the pseudonym Publius, and the actual authors were James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. Eric Blair wrote under the name George Orwell for his famous works 1984 and Animal Farm. Theodore Geisel wrote under the penname Dr. Seuss.
We live in a world where most of talk radio no longer takes calls, and the city of Denver now owns the old Denver Post building and Channel Nine has become an extension of the state Democrat Party. They are bent on tearing this internet site down and exposing people who actually were doing the job that Denver Post and Channel Nine and text reading talk radio should be doing.
The person behind @dobetterdnvr told me they asked The Denver Post what the true purpose of the story was. “If their aim was to genuinely inform the people about @dobetterdnvr, why did it refuse to protect the anonymity of myself and my sources, putting their safety and livelihoods at risk. Exposing private citizens while shielding the powerful betrays the very principles journalism claims to uphold. The public deserves better. Denver deserves better.”
But as Kurt Vonnegut said, this is how it goes.
— Peter Boyles
