Colorado Rockies, Denver Broncos wide receiver strike gold with timing

Sorry Mike Trout. Your moment to have the largest contract in professional sports history was just upped by the Colorado Rockies with a surprise signing.

OK, so the moment was in jest, but it’s another reason why the people running the Colorado Rockies social media accounts deserve yet another raise.

Shortly after the news of Mike Trout closing in on the largest payday in professional sports, Denver Broncos wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders posted footage that proved he could pitch and even floated out that the Rockies had signed him to quite the deal.

Jumping on the opportunity, the Rockies quickly gave Sanders his own MLB page, complete with the big signing.

Certainly the Rockies have handed out their own big chunks of salary in recent years, signing Charlie Blackmon and Nolan Arenado to long-term contracts and keeping the duo as the cornerstones of the franchise.

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While we don’t think Wade Davis has anything to worry about as Colorado’s closer, but Sanders definitely proved he had an arm after that touchdown catch.

The moment also captured how close-knit the Denver sporting community has become in recent years. Colorado’s header on Sanders’ made-up profile page shows him with Trevor Story and Ryan McMahon at a recent Denver Nuggets game. It was the same game where Kyle Freeland and Story had, well, let’s just say a little competition about if Story would make or miss the free throw that is a part of the Nuggets’ pre-game activities.

Spoiler alert: He missed it as Freeland enjoyed the moment.

It’s a great time to be a sports fan in Denver.