BARREL MAN FOREVER
Denver Broncos fans are known as some of the most fanatical football fans in America, but one fan stood a Mile-High above the crowd, Barrel Man (aka Tim McKernan).
Barrel Man was a fixture at Denver Broncos games beginning in 1977, when he bet his brother that he could come up with a costume that would get him on TV during a game. McKernan won the wager, a princely sum of $10, and inadvertently created a Colorado legend. For the next 30 years, Barrel Man was at all but four of the Denver Broncos home games, wearing nothing but a cowboy hat, cowboy boots, a barrel, and a smile. Read more
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