We've got some really sad news to start off the show. We learned late last night that Ronnie Hillman,

former Broncos running back, former Super Bowl 50 champion passed away yesterday after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer just in August.

Just in August.

Ronnie was 31 years old.

He was surrounded by his friends and family and loved ones last night when he passed away and it's just it's so sad Hank and now two members of the Super Bowl 50 team have now passed away with just in over the past year

with Marius Thomas with Ronnie Hillman and it especially with with Ronnie's

being he was diagnosed with this in August and he passed away now and it's,

you know, you look at the stats, you look at that he was the leading Russia for the 2015 Super Bowl team even ahead of CJ Anderson but it just goes beyond that

Ronnie from everyone that I've talked to Ronnie was just was such a kind guy

such a soft-spoken guy and it's just so so sad that he passed away so we just

wanted to say our condolences are with his family and our thoughts and prayers

are with them and we're thinking of the Hillman family today.

And there's no easy transition than moving on to other things in sports, but

I wanted to say that to the Hillman family and we're thinking about you all

but let's move on to something to something more positive and and happier today

some Broncos related news came out last night before we do just want to say

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five dollars into a hundred fifty free dollars in bets. Henry, how are you doing today? I'm doing good. It's really cold. It is. It's like

weirdly cold. It is. That's a good way to put it. Weirdly cold is Ryan would say Studio A stands for absurdly cold.

Oh boy it's it's all right to get a break occasionally

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