After Denver has finally fought its way back to the center of the NFL universe, is Broncomania up for sale?

The NFL nation’s eyes will be fixed Sunday on Colorado, when Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love and legendary CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz hit town for what might well be the most must-see football moment in Broncos Country since the Super Bowl 50 victory parade back in 2016.

Cheeseheads are not welcome to the party.

But you know they’re going to crash it, because the green cash of rabid Green Bay fans is accepted everywhere.

Last I checked, good seats were readily available throughout the stadium, provided you’re willing to pay the price.

Up in the nosebleeds of Section 527, where spectators will have to shield their eyes against the sun low in the Colorado sky at kickoff, tickets are available for $407 apiece.

And sweet spots can be had within shouting distance of players catching a breather on the Denver bench, if you’re willing to fork over $1,003 for a prime spot in Section 105.

How many Green Bay fans, wearing the faded glory of their old Brett Favre jerseys and those ridiculous wedges of polyurethane cheese on their heads, will we see storm the gates for the biggest NFL game staged in Colorado in nearly a decade?

Cheez, whiz. 

After waiting what seemed like an eternity for the local NFL team to become championship relevant again, certainly Broncomaniacs won’t allow an unfriendly takeover of Empower Field at Mile High with the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs on the line.

Will they?

“We’re counting on our crowd this week,” Broncos coach Sean Payton said.

Payton is counting on Broncos fans to make it hard for the Packers, averaging 24.8 points per game, to hear Love call plays in the Green Bay huddle and make checks at the line of scrimmage.

With Denver and its 11-2 record being disrespected as a 2.5-point underdog at home, the Broncos expect the crowd to take it out on the visitors, with every decibel a reminder of why securing the top seed for the AFC playoffs can be so essential to playoff success.

As receiver Courtland Sutton regularly declares: “Broncos Country always shows up.”

Already this season, stadiums from Los Angeles to London to Las Vegas have been awash in a sea of orange and rattled by “Go, Broncos!” chants.

A year ago, when Broncos Country showed up in force at the stadium in Tampa to support rookie quarterback Bo Nix and a team that had dropped two of three games in September.

As Denver fans brought the noise, a young Broncos player with shock and awe in his eyes turned to Sutton for an explanation of how so much orange could be found in a city more than 1,500 miles from the Colorado state line.

“Bruh,” Sutton said, “this is how we do it in Broncos Country.”

The Cheeseheads, however, are one of the few football tribes that travel as loudly and proudly as Broncomaniacs do. They love their team almost as much as their beer.

Back in the day, it was considered an act of sport treason for any self-respecting Broncos season-ticket holder to sell tickets to a visiting fan.

But things have changed, with the rise of internet commerce and the expansion of home television screens.

Hey, I get it. Selling tickets to Cheeseheads can go a long way to paying for Christmas presents around the tree or putting a healthy dent in the monthly rent.

But that doesn’t mean any of the rest of us have to like it.

Every Green Bay fan through the gates only intensifies the responsibility of the Broncos faithful to defend homefield advantage more passionately.

This could be an interesting little experiment to determine how much Broncomania has changed.

With three Super Bowl trophies in the case, how many Denver fans would rather have money in their pocket?

Brace yourself for the invasion of the Cheeseheads.

At least 5,000 Green Bay fans in the stadium are to be expected.

But if there’s 10,000? Or more?

That would be an indication that the loyalty of even die-hard Broncomaniacs can now be easily bought.

We’re already plagued by too many LaLalanders in Ball Arena every time the Lakers visit Nikola Jokic. And Coors Field has become the official Colorado visitors’ center for baseball fans from Chicago to San Francisco.

Enough is enough. 

Cheddar in a Denver omelette, queso blanco on nachos and even cheese curds from Wisconsin are all delightful. Good stuff. Welcome anywhere, anytime.

But Cheeseheads running amok in the Broncos’ home stadium?

Yuck.