While the Broncos, the Nuggets and the Avalanche are on remarkable runs to the playoffs and potential league championships, the Rockies, despite their most significant changes in team history, remain The Franchise Colorado Disregards and Debases.

Last Sunday the Avs, the Broncos and the Nuggets won and now possess records that are first, tied for first and third in the NHL, the NFL and the NBA. The Denver Big Three have a combined total of 51 victories in 62 games and a winning percentage of 82.3.

The 2025 Rox won only 43 games of 162 with a losing percentage of 73.5.

The Nuggets have reached the playoffs in 40 seasons, the Broncos in 23 and the Avalanche in 21. And those franchises have won seven titles. The Rockies have gotten to the postseason just five times, never finished first in their division and played once in the World Series, where they were beaten in four straight games.

The Broncos are owned by the richest family (Waltons) and friends in the NFL. The Nuggets and the Avalanche are owned by the family (Kroenke) that has almost $12 billion in the estimated value of sports teams. The Rockies have been owned by a member of the Monfort family since the franchise’s inception, and the two brothers and two sons involved with the team are ranked in the poorest three ownerships in Major League Baseball.

The Broncos are valued by Forbes Magazine in 2025 at $5.5 billion, the Nuggets $4.6, the Avalanche $1.85 and the Rockies $1.48.

The Broncos, the Nuggets and the Avalanche sell out every game, with the Broncos averaging 75,281 (fourth), the Nuggets 18,900 (seventh) and the Avalanche 18,099 (third). The 2025 Rockies dropped to 29,687 (17th in MLB and worst total at home in 16 seasons), with just seven games considered sellouts (because of fireworks nights and visiting popular teams) and all games with announced attendance including no-shows. A source who is connected with the team told me the Rox sold fewer than 15,000 full season tickets and averaged approximately 14,000 at the ballpark to cheer on opposing teams. The Savannah Bananas’ two comical exhibitions at Coors Field attracted more than 100,000 witnesses.

The Rapids finished with an average of 15,890 spectators, second to last in the MLS.

Dick’s Sporting Goods Park has 18,061 seats, about 30,000 fewer than Coors Field. But the Raps, unlike the Rox, have won a championship.

The Roxbottoms lost a baseball worst 504 games in the past five years and suffered through  87-plus losses in 11 of 14 seasons (another was Pandemic-shortened 26-34 record) during the Delusional Dick Monfort Reign of Terrible since he took over as CEO-Chairman from his brother Charlie.

The controlling co-owner FINALLY has been humiliated enough to listen to the hue and cry of the press, the public and the players to make meaningful major moves.

Dick still is Cheap Chief-Chairman, and his sons have pivotal positions with the franchise. But Monfort has dumped lackeys, loyalists and losers and let outsiders in to clean up all the aisles.

Although Walker Monfort, a graduate of Eaton High and Colorado State, is the executive vice president, the Rox have hired Paul DePodesta as president of baseball operations, Josh Byrnes as general manager, Tommy Tanous as assistant GM and Nicky Schmidt (no relation to Bill) as senior VP-Revenue & Strategy.

The fresh leadership retained manager Warren Schaeffer, but has hired three new pitching coaches, a director of pitching and a hitting coach so far so fast. Two minor-league pitchers were acquired by Rule 5, and the DePodesta-Byrnes hand-in-baseball-glove duo signed four free agent pitchers, traded for another and signed an eighth off waivers.

Pitching is a priority for the team that had a subterranean Roxbottomless staff last season. But first base, second base, third base and outfield also seem imperative. Shortstop Ezequiel Tovar and Hunter Goodman are safe. Centerfielder Brenton Doyle is not.

But the Rox still have to pay Kris Bryant, who must be gone, $27 million and long-gone Nolan Arenado $5 million.

 Will tightwad Monfort, who will spend the next year trying to secure a salary cap for the owners, spend more money on his own baseball team?

 Or will the Rox remain at the bottom while the Broncos, the Avalanche and the Nuggets are at the top in Denver?