There’s a word for when a Denver team of highly trained pros takes a loss in the loudest, proudest and luckiest sports city in the U.S. 

“Weird,” Nuggets coach David Adelman said Monday.

A crazy run of Mile High sports magic came to an abrupt halt when the reeling Chicago Bulls stunned the Nuggets with a 130-127 defeat in a game that wasn’t decided until center Nikola Jokic’s desperation shot at the buzzer failed to find the mark.

For the first time in 58 magical days, Denver diehards witnessed a home loss in regulation by one of the big four pro teams that local fans stand up and cheer.

How to explain why this improbable sports sorcery didn’t go on even longer?

Well, there’s a word for that, as well.

Rockies.

Since Sept. 20, when the Rockies dropped a 3-0 decision to the Angels at Coors Field, we witnessed the Broncos, Nuggets and Avs, with a little help from their wretched baseball brethren, win 20 straight times in regulation on the toughest home venues of turf, court and ice you will find anywhere in the country.

Hey, Denver: Tired of all the winning yet?

This uncommon run of sports excellence might actually be enough to stop ESPN talking heads from yacking about LeBron or the Cowboys for a dadgum minute. It might even force Fox blabbermouth Nick Wright to put a little respect on our fair city’s name.

Or as Broncos offensive tackle Garett Bolles so succinctly put it to Scotty Gange of 9News after Denver’s win over Kansas City: “What’s the country going to say now?”

Who really cares?

In Denver, wallowing in the insecurities of being a flyover city is a waste of a rip-roaring good time.

And what a time it is to be alive.

I’ve only been watching how the ball bounces in Denver stadiums and arenas since 1983, and can’t recall so many of our pro sports teams simultaneously on such a blue-hot heater.

Yes, I’m older than dust in our cowtown.

But my esteemed colleague Woody Paige has been a fixture in Colorado longer than Longs Peak.

And as Drow pointed out Sunday, about the time Patrick Mahomes and the once-mighty Chiefs were taking that L on their way out of Empower Field at Mile High, no big-league city in America has ever staged three championship parades within the same calendar year.

It could happen in 2026. Right here in Colorado.   

After speaking the Broncos into existence as a legitimate Super Bowl contender, a stop-the-steal recount should be demanded if anyone other than Sean Payton is voted as the NFL’s coach of the year.

It’s no longer a question if Jokic is the best player in today’s NBA, but where he ranks among the best hoopers of all time.

The boys in burgundy and blue are an Avalanche rolling down a mountain, already looking like a lock to fashion the top regular-season record in the NHL, the curse of the Presidents’ Trophy be damned.

We aren’t so giddy to ignore the fact magic can go poof and be gone in an instant. Reality has a nasty habit of biting.

The Nuggets fooled around and found out, falling behind 18 points in the first half to a Bulls squad that had lost five times in a row.

It’s also true the Avs took a pair of 5-4 shootout defeats at home during this magical run.

Although the Broncos are 9-2, there’s still heavy lifting to do before they can earn the No. 1 seed in the AFC for the playoffs.

But when’s the vibe from the hockey ice to the basketball court to the football turf been so crazy optimistic in Denver all at once?

Never.

The combined record of the Avs, Nuggets and Broncos in 2025 is 32-6-5.

It would be a dream too good to be true if we hadn’t witnessed it with our own eyes.

How to describe the feeling in those moments when you feel unbeatable?

“A rush,” Broncos receiver Troy Franklin told me.

Broncos, Avs and Nuggets.

Clear eyes. Full hearts. Can’t lose.

In most U.S. sports towns, the sweet day when the peeps line streets to witness a championship parade is celebrated as a once-in-a-lifetime thrill.

In Denver, Bo Nix, Nathan MacKinnon and Jamal Murray are working on the possibility of parades that go on forever and a party that never ends.