Top 6 reasons I’m not bothered by Broncos’ Super Bowl trouncing

6. Football is a business, as the players constantly remind us come contract time. Getting too wrapped up in the fate of the Denver Broncos is like living or dying by the annual reports of Colorado-based Ball Corp., Chipotle, Inc. or Leprino Foods, maker of pizza cheese. At least one can own shares in these other businesses.

 5. Peyton Manning made an estimated $31 million in 2013 alone. Some of it was for endorsing Papa John’s, a major user of Leprino Foods pizza cheese. He’ll be just fine.

 4. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson seems like a good guy, and at 5’11” is merely freakishly athletic as opposed to freakish in size as well as athleticism. Plus the unfiltered energy and verisimilitude of Richard Sherman’s post-Niners-game rant was, in a universe of boilerplate sports interviews, refreshing.

 3. The Broncos AFC championship victory over the New England Patriots, amid a sea of orange at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, remains one of the great moments in the history of Colorado sports.

 2. I grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, as a Detroit Lions fan, an enduring (and unending) lesson in how not to hang your emotional well-being on a professional football team.

 1. I skied Winter Park with good friends under blue skies and on 30 inches of relative fresh until my daughter’s ski-school lesson wrapped at 2:30 p.m. Can’t do that in Seattle. Plus the game drained Interstate 70 of the typical traffic so we could bust home and catch the masterful first snap.