Dave Logan joins The Other Tom Green Show for a wide-ranging conversation about versatility, longevity, and impact in sports. Logan reflects on calling more than 600 Denver Broncos games, his transition from NFL player to elite broadcaster, and how his coaching background shapes the way he sees the game today. From the “backyard” magic of Bo Nix and the Broncos’ current momentum to his unmatched high-school coaching legacy and lifelong commitment to mentoring young athletes, this episode explores what it takes to excel across eras, roles, and generations.
Tom Green sits down with Dave Logan to trace one of the most unique careers in Colorado sports history. Logan discusses his path from standout multi-sport athlete to NFL wide receiver, longtime Broncos radio voice, and one of the most successful high-school football coaches in the country. He shares stories from the broadcast booth, including what it means to reach 600 games, how radio play-by-play differs from television, and why painting a picture for fans still matters. Logan also dives into the current Broncos, explaining Bo Nix’s instincts, the balance between structure and improvisation, and why this team feels like it has something special. The conversation moves into coaching, leadership, and the responsibility of working with young people, as Logan reflects on decades of guiding players on and off the field. It’s an honest, insightful look at a career defined by preparation, passion, and purpose.
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Tom Green
Hi there. Thanks again for joining us here for another edition of the other Tom Green Show. And today, among other things, we're going to talk a lot about versatility. And to do that, we turn the page back to 1960s television.
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All right. Hold on.
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Starring Chuck Connors.
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Tom Green
Yeah. Chuck Connors. He was also over television and films back in the 60s. But you may not know that the actor Chuck Connors also played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and for the Boston Celtics. He truly was a guy who could do it all. Speaking of a guy who could do it all. Today's guest is Dave Logan. Hey, I want to remind you about our sponsor.
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Tom Green
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Dave Logan
Good afternoon everybody, and welcome to Mile High Stadium on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Will Newton face some pressure here for our four man rush Newton in the pocket. He's hit and sacked inside the five. The ball is free. Denver's got it. Touchdown Denver. Pressure on love. Love throws.
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The ball. Middle of the field. The ball behind the defender. Intercepted. Intercepted by Riley Moss. They look to him. Throw the fade. Sutton is there and makes the catch.
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Tom Green
Touchdown Denver. A lot of people enjoyed Sunday. They got to watch the Broncos beat the Packers. Some of us were working though like Dave Logan Dave was there. The man on the mic as always. For now more than 600 Bronco games. I you know, Susie Ward, your team made a big deal out of that. It's a jarring number.
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Tom Green
Was it surprising to you?
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Dave Logan
600 yeah. I honestly, Tom, I didn't, until until it was brought to my attention. Yeah.
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Dave Logan
I, I really did know, because, you know, I mean, you know, you've done this for a long time. You don't really stop and count individual games, but, you know, it was it was a cool.
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Tom Green
Reminder that, well, football games are harder to amass. 600 football games requires what the neighborhood of 40 seasons.
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Dave Logan
Yeah. So this is, this is year 36 for me. And, you know, I have been I have been very blessed. I have not missed a single Broncos game, and I have missed a high school football game. There have been some there have been some close calls, but I think, you know, you're I mean, you and I have talked about this before, in terms of sort of how you were you were raised and, you know, I was raised in a, in a, in a blue collar family.
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Dave Logan
And, you know what? You had a job to do. You got, you went to work and you found a way with you. You didn't feel good or something was bothering you. You you you found a way to go to work and deal with the other stuff at another time.
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Tom Green
So when you started, you were working as the color analyst on the games, working with Bob Martin a bit and then Larry Zimmer.
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Dave Logan
No, I never work with Bob. Right. Bob passed, in the spring of 1990, and in fact, that's that's why, the job opened.
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Tom Green
Larry moved.
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Dave Logan
Over. Callaway called. Yes.
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Tom Green
And analyzing the games, I think people knew you and knew you'd be great at analyzing the games, doing the color play by play, a different challenge for former players, because there's a lot of technical aspects to running the show. Yeah. Were you at all intimidated? I mean, you'd seen Larry do it, you'd seen other you'd work with Apollo and others on on see you broadcast and the like.
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Tom Green
You'd seen it done. You have confidence. But did you say this might be a little more than I want to bite off right now?
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Dave Logan
I didn't say it would be more than I wanted to buy it off, but it was, there wasn't intimidating sort of, sequence of events when they came to me and said, hey, listen, we're thinking about we're thinking about moving you over to play by play. I initially thought they were they were kidding. So I kind of chuckled.
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Dave Logan
And then I realized that I was the only one chuckling in the room, and, no. So, you know, I took, I took great pride in it because it's players, guys that played in the NFL that that's not really their path. You just don't you don't hear many ex players that are doing play by play of their respective teams on radio.
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Tom Green
Yeah.
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Dave Logan
And so, I took it as a challenge and I went back and listened to a number of play by play guys. I listened to Bob Martin. Bob was, he was so good. And he was succinct and.
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Tom Green
An old school methodical. Yeah. Always knew the down and distance.
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Dave Logan
For.
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Tom Green
Sure. Yeah. He. Well, there were more more people at the time would use the radio to follow the Broncos. I mean, it was it was a very popular way for people, even with the television because everything was over the air at the time. So the TV and radio were usually sync. Now who knows where you are and delays and lay back?
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Dave Logan
No, that's right. And I think, you know, my idea going into that, and I think it's probably sort of morphed over a long period of time, was to try to be able to create, for somebody that would be working in their garage that could not see the game to when the Broncos break the huddle to identify where people are, what the said is, of course, the down distance and the time you can never give that too much if you're doing radio, but just try to paint the picture for people.
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Dave Logan
And then to be accurate with, my, my descriptions and excited.
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Tom Green
I mean, you said some of those calls, you know, you're you you do know you're talking to fans. They want to hear you be a Bronco. You're telling our side of the story.
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Dave Logan
Yeah. I mean, you're talking you're talking to predominantly Broncos fans. Yeah. It's different than doing a network TV broadcast where you're, you know, ostensibly you have equal number of fans from both teams and you're going to piss off probably both sets of fans. Yeah. And that's when, you know, you've probably done a good job. But that's not the case for a for a hometown radio play by play guy.
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Dave Logan
And I, I mean, I figured that out early in the start.
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Tom Green
When I listen to you, I also hear your coach's voice. I do hear you, you're you're seeing tactics. You are seeing like, you talk about formations and what defenses are presenting and things like that, that that's very natural for you. Of course.
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Dave Logan
Yeah, I think so. I think, you know, for a long time as a player, I mean, I made my living looking at defenses and trying to understand what offenses don't like. And so I have sort of this built in thing in my head when an offense comes to the line of scrimmage, I'm immediately even as a play by play guy, I would certainly do it as a color analyst.
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Dave Logan
But even now I will check and see where are those safeties? Because safeties make corners will light all the time. Safeties right before the snap and certainly after the ball snap. They have to get to where they're going and they tell you they might not tell you what coverage they're in, but they certainly will tell you what coverages they cannot be in.
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Dave Logan
And that's that's very helpful.
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Tom Green
That's one of your keys when you're watching you watch safeties motion formation where they are. Yep. This year's team has got some of that magic that teams get. You know it doesn't not everything is just because you're better or you you you know you have better players. Sometimes it's just your year. And the Broncos have that little magic going right now that's pretty unique.
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Tom Green
And you know you see it a lot of times a team's really good and they end up and all of a sudden you know they're they are at nine and eight. Nothing nothing happened this year. Everything's happening.
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Dave Logan
Yeah I remember saying, and I believe it was I believe it was the Giants game where I said, you know, this just might be one of those years. And that was before the comeback had been completed. But they were starting to come back. And I think what I would say is, I mean, we've expected the Broncos defense to be good, to really good to great.
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Dave Logan
And I think they they have lived up to their billing. I think the offense has really sort of come into their own the last maybe four games. Right. And I've said that I believe there's a a backyard element to HBO's game that is somewhat unique and more much more positive than negative. And so I think I think the challenge may be for, for Sean and his staff, and I think they've done a good job of this is how do we embrace that backyard element and still feel like because I think I think Sean is, I mean, he's an excellent, schemer.
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Dave Logan
He's a guy that's been a really successful, offensive coach. I mean, everything is detailed. So how if if you've got a guy that at times really can, can operate off script, how do you embrace it and encourage it to a point and but still manage it, which is not a good word, but still sort of wrap your head around it and and get him, because both can operate from the pocket.
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Tom Green
But you don't want to see him running around like, Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson. He's got some of that in him. But you'd like for him to stay closer to the script. I or I think he might.
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Dave Logan
Yeah, I maybe Sean Sean might. I think again, I think the magic of Bo is allowing him to be him and encouraging him to a point of, you know, I mean, he made some plays against the Packers where, you know, that's that's not a script. I mean, that's just a guy that is a natural athlete seeing something, buying some time, throw him back across his body.
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Dave Logan
And I think you, you, you the challenge for the, for the coaching staff is you want to embrace it because that's who he is. And he makes a ton of plays. You also know that there will be a couple of times in the game where he's going to throw the ball, and as soon as that ball comes out of his hands, you're going to let Greg know that and say no.
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Dave Logan
But that's yeah, I think he's got that. Not every buddy, not every quarterback has that. Again. I, I've called it the backyard element. And I think Bo has it and is is as good as some of these other 2 or 3 guys that we just talked about.
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Tom Green
So coaching you talked a lot about it there and you've been doing it now for a long time when, when you were first approached or when you first approached a West was where you started, right? Arvada West. How did that feel? Because you were a full time broadcaster at the time. You had plenty to do, but you must have had a passion for it and a way to figure out how to make it all fit.
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Dave Logan
Yeah. I, I had actually applied for the golden job the year before and gotten the job and, I was hiring assistant coaches for the first 3 or 4 days of my tenure. Golden. And then the athletic director called back and said, hey, we're going to we're going to bring on a, a veteran coach. So I said, great.
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Dave Logan
I mean, you know what? Absolutely. Because I you know, I know what I don't know. So what do you want him what do you want him to do? And he said, well, we want him to be the head coach.
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Tom Green
Instead of you. Yeah.
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Dave Logan
Wow. Right. So, not a lot of people know that.
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Tom Green
No, I'd never heard that. Yeah.
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Dave Logan
I was going to coach.
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Tom Green
So if he's going.
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Dave Logan
To be the head coach at Golden. So, so the next year, my, I mean, I always had it. I always had it in the back of my mind because my mom and dad, my dad was my youth coach and basketball, football, and both of them, but in particular my dad talked about, hey, if you get a chance to work with young people in some capacity, you've got to take advantage of that.
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Dave Logan
You have to do it, take that opportunity. And so, I'd gone out my middle school football coach, who aside from my dad, was probably one of my biggest male mentors, taught at Pomona for a long time. He was a football coach there. He asked me to a night or as soon as I retired from the NFL.
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Dave Logan
He asked me to come out and help coordinate, sort of help coordinate their offense. They were predominantly a run right offense, so I did, but I couldn't. I was doing the afternoon show with Irv and Joe, so I had to take vacation days a couple of days a week, and I couldn't go out there all the time. But so I got the bug really back in 1980, that would have been 85 or 86.
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Dave Logan
So then you fast forward 90 to apply for the job at Golden. Get it, then don't get it. And then he called again and said, hey, the worst job just opened. But coach MacGregor, who had been at West for 27 years. Ryan McGregor. Ryan McGregor. Yeah. He didn't he didn't announce he was leaving until June. So I think he wanted one of his two coordinators to get the job.
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Dave Logan
And I completely get that. And so all the other coaches, I mean guys that would have been, you know, great head coaches, they already had jobs in June. You're already getting ready. Yeah. You'll start the summer workout stuff. So there were three of us that applied. And somehow some way I wound up getting the job.
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Tom Green
Did it fit you immediately? Because, I mean, we're going to talk about your success is unparalleled at the high school level as far as the head coach. But did it did you immediately know you were home, that you were good at it, that you loved it, that it loved you?
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Dave Logan
I've always loved football. I think football is the greatest team sport in the world. I love kids, I think you can, you know, I think we too often, do not take opportunities to impact young people in a positive way. We just assume that they're going to grow up, and we assume that they have great, mentorship or leadership at home and a great support staff.
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Dave Logan
And that's not always the case.
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Tom Green
Right.
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Dave Logan
So I knew that I loved it. I mean, I was I was overwhelmed, you know, I got the job in the middle of June and, trying to put together a staff. And so I took most of the offense that, that, that I remembered from the Browns and tried to implement that. And, you know, I think about it, that that first year group, that first year, kids, will always be really special to me.
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Dave Logan
Because they had a young head coach that was learning on the job and really didn't have much of a clue, you know, in terms of what what we would do. I remember we had the kids write down, hey, listen, if you could beat one team, which team would it be? And it was Pomona. Pomona, it'd be Nevada.
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Tom Green
You'd probably written down Golden.
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Dave Logan
Yeah, yeah. Well, when I was in Wheat Ridge, we played golden all the time.
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Tom Green
Yeah. When you were.
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Dave Logan
Playing, Golden was A48. Golden was a class below that. Right. So it was. It was. Yeah. So they all said Pomona, and, we wanted to play in Pomona that year. We were ahead late in the third quarter. Couldn't you could just feel the momentum and I could feel the, the lack of confidence from our team.
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Dave Logan
They beat us. But they never beat us again after that, we we found ways to beat them. So, there was just a lot to it. And I think, you know, Jim Temple was so, so great and sort of helping me, migrate through that, that first part of the career.
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Tom Green
You win the first state title there in 97, and you'd go on to win a dozen more, three different schools. You know, Larry Brown hopped around a little bit as a head coach.
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Dave Logan
Yes he did. Yes he did.
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Tom Green
Did did did it. How did moving come about? Because I tend to think of, you talk about the kids and the kids being the magnetic draw to you. Yeah. The parents and school administration and chess. In some ways, all these other things can be at times the negative things, the things you have to manage and deal with, put up with things like that.
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Tom Green
Were those were those roadblocks for you or obstacles that you found tricky to manage?
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Dave Logan
Well, I think it's, no, I think I think I've probably learned how to manage them, through the years. So I just finished 33 years as a head coach. The, the, you know, there's really which I would like to see changed. I mean, there's no money in high school coaching, right? I mean, my salary this year, in my 33rd year is 5000 bucks, and that's for the entire year.
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Dave Logan
So it was never a money thing in terms of me leaving, I honestly, I would have stayed at it was probably my entire career if, I was a single dad at the time, my daughter and I lived out, about 25 miles south of or about a west. This is before we even see 470 was completed. So it was a trek to get there every day.
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Dave Logan
And, so she was going into ninth grade and she was going to go to Sheffield. And so, the head coach at Sheffield was a guy that I had gone to high school with. And Keith called and said, hey, I'm going to, I'm going to step down. Job is going to open. He says, not, not a very good job.
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Dave Logan
But so,
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Tom Green
Thanks for the sales job.
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Dave Logan
Yeah. But you know what? You really you don't do it. You don't do it for money. You're not, you're not. It's not like in college where you got a better offer and it's $400,000 more. And there's all sorts of decision reasons to move. But that was that was a good enough reason. And that really was the only reason that I left, that I left Arvada was Chatfield had been ten and 30 the previous four years.
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Dave Logan
So it was, you know, it was a it was a rebuilding job there.
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Tom Green
Do you compare all the teams you've won with? I mean, you you've had some great players, of course, but do you, do you look at them and go, this team, I remember this team fondly because this was the team that we couldn't have won a state title with and we did, or this team because we had that kid who was so unique or special or such a great locker room guy.
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Tom Green
I mean, do they are they individual teams too? You?
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Dave Logan
Yes. Yeah, they are. I mean, yeah. You'll find some teams that, you know, you'll get to keep maybe you have. I've had teams where like 6 or 7 sophomores were starters. And if you can find a way to get through that year, you know that the next couple of years are going to be pretty good.
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Dave Logan
Pretty good, right? I mean, we got to the final Four my second year coaching. We got the state championship game. My fourth year lost, lost to Cherry Creek, went back my fifth year won. And so you learn I mean honestly with me you learn. So much every single year. You learn of things, you know, that you liked what you did.
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Dave Logan
You learn things that, hey, I'm going to do this differently. The faces change, you know, in high school football, you're going to have you're going to have a whole bunch of new faces almost every single year, whether it's freshmen that you, you know, haven't really coached per se every day. And now they're sophomores. And so it's, it's hard to compare teams.
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Tom Green
You have guys you coach now though, who are 45, almost 50 years old.
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Dave Logan
Yeah.
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Tom Green
It's got to be kind of I.
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Dave Logan
Ran into my, my, first quarterback, Zach Hyder, when, we were down at, before this season started. We went to Empower Field at Mile High and had media day. Right. And so Zach was there, and Zach's daughter, is the player of the year at Columbine. Okay. In softball. And she's going to Alabama next year. And I'm thinking, man, how are you old enough to have a daughter in college?
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Dave Logan
And I haven't aged one one bit, but, yeah. What's really special time is you, you know, you develop relationships and you develop friendships with these. I call them my kids. And now they're grown men, and now they have families. And now, you know, I'm so, so proud of, of those relationships because many, many of those have stayed intact for a long time.
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Tom Green
Talk about the versatility of being a great broadcaster and a great head coach. But you had also been a great player. And even before then, you know, you'd been a terrific athlete, both at that Wheat Ridge and at the University of Colorado and other sports. And I just wonder about how you learned through that in high school as a farmer and as a buff, to later manage time, because it seems like the key to doing what you do now, what you've been doing for the last 30 years is manage time as much as anything.
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Dave Logan
Yeah, I think that I mean, that that obviously was a challenge when I, when I started coaching, I applied for and got the West job, I didn't even tell CoA, which was probably, you know, retrospectively, not very smart, but I was doing the 6 to 8 show, 6 p.m. to eight. Perfect. So I was doing it by myself.
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Dave Logan
And I'm thinking, well, they we practice at 315. We're going to be done by the time I go on the air. So I got called in the office and Lee Larsen, who's, still a very good friend of.
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Tom Green
Mine, a giant of the business.
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Dave Logan
Absolute giant, hired me at Keyway and, had a copy of either the news or the post. Slid it across the desk and said, what's this? I said, honestly, and maybe I was just naive about it. I said. I said, well, this is it. Yeah, I'm going to do this. But he goes, why am I finding out about it now?
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Dave Logan
I said, it's not going to affect anything. I do. Yeah, the CoA, he said everything, everything you do affects what. And I really I wasn't trying to I wasn't trying to, you know, do anything I just never thought as long as I can still fulfill my broadcasting responsibilities, I thought it would not be a big deal.
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Tom Green
Yeah. So. And and it obviously has worked out. And later, I think to the benefit of your radio employers, I think your profile they.
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Dave Logan
Would they would take issue with that statement.
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Tom Green
Well of course they would.
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Dave Logan
They would take issue. You know, we I think my third year coaching, they came to me the, the company and said, hey, we're what do you think about working with Scott Hastings? And I said, great, because I had done I had done three years of nuggets TV with Al Albert. Right. Talk about great broadcasters. So I knew I knew Scott got to know him a little bit.
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Dave Logan
I said, great, they said, so we're going to put you guys on a on a new station. I put you in the afternoons. I said, whatever you're going to do, take me off the night at CoA. They said, but we want you to stop coaching. I said, I don't want to do that.
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Tom Green
Did you at that point felt you had the, the, the clout to win? Because now I'd say now Dave would go, look, I'm not doing it. They'd go, okay, well, whatever you want.
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Dave Logan
I wasn't sure, I really wasn't sure, but I knew that. I knew that I love working with kids and and coaching. And so I don't know what would have happened had they dug in and said, it's either this or, you know, you got to go. But I said, I just I don't want to do that. So they said, okay.
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Dave Logan
And so they let me continue coaching. Scott and I did the show on a, on a smaller station, and within about 3 or 4 months they said, we're going to move you guys to Koa in the afternoon.
00;24;58;26 - 00;24;59;20
Tom Green
So I was that good.
00;24;59;20 - 00;25;06;08
Dave Logan
I said, okay, great, but you got to you got to stop. Coaching was like the next year. I said, I keep.
00;25;06;08 - 00;25;07;02
Tom Green
Wanting to go there.
00;25;07;05 - 00;25;26;13
Dave Logan
I just I don't want to do that. So, I mean, fortunately for me, they, they have allowed me to, I would say grudgingly at times, but they've allowed me to continue coaching. And now now we're to the point where, you know, they understand I'm going to miss a lot of time in the fall.
00;25;26;13 - 00;25;47;19
Tom Green
And yeah, I filled in for you one fall, one day. Krieger was where? That's right. Yeah. And I would fill in on a few days a week when you had to coach into the afternoon. Yeah. You and I had a conversation before I got into sports talk radio, because I was still doing TV, and, the fan was going to be born, and Bob call said, we want you to do the afternoons on the fan.
00;25;47;19 - 00;26;04;08
Tom Green
I said, that's great. So I called you, and I said, so what's it take to do sports talk radio? And and the first thing he said to me emphatically was, you really gotta like your partner. And I kind of laughed and I said, you know, I get along with everybody pretty much. And you stopped me dead in my tracks.
00;26;04;08 - 00;26;23;17
Tom Green
And you said, no, you really got to like your partner. And then they gave me Doug Moe, and it was the easiest thing I've ever done in my life. But it. You know that I talk about it. We had Kim Christiansen on last week and it's like chemistry is is the magic. Everything that is TV or radio. And it can be zero and it can be 100.
00;26;23;17 - 00;26;28;01
Tom Green
And when it's 100, it's the easiest thing you'll ever do. And when it's zero, it's not great.
00;26;28;03 - 00;26;55;06
Dave Logan
And I firmly believe that and I don't I don't believe that everybody who and I think they have good intentions, but everybody who tries to put shows together completely understand that. I mean, you're spending so much time, with that person and there has there has to be. And I think you can develop chemistry. Yeah. You know, to certain levels with just about anybody.
00;26;55;06 - 00;27;12;19
Dave Logan
But but I don't believe, like, as you said, on a 0 to 10, I don't think you can get a 9 or 10 with just anybody that they put together, even if that other person, is a quality broadcaster and really good at what they do.
00;27;12;20 - 00;27;14;12
Tom Green
Yeah. And it's not science or math.
00;27;14;12 - 00;27;15;02
Dave Logan
It's no.
00;27;15;02 - 00;27;16;18
Tom Green
Human beings. It can be any.
00;27;16;18 - 00;27;18;04
Dave Logan
Can't quantify it.
00;27;18;07 - 00;27;34;08
Tom Green
So when you came out of Wheat Ridge, you were clearly a premier athlete. Was going to Colorado the only place you wanted to go to go to see you, or did they augment that by saying you can play all the sports, or was that important? Was that a piece of the puzzle?
00;27;34;08 - 00;27;39;22
Dave Logan
It was it. I wasn't going to go anywhere that they would not allow me to play football and basketball.
00;27;39;24 - 00;27;40;23
Tom Green
Baseball was.
00;27;40;28 - 00;27;52;17
Dave Logan
Baseball. I mean, I wanted to play baseball if possible. In fact, I was going to play baseball. In my sophomore year. And, Eddie Crowder, who had recruited me and been the head coach, got fired.
00;27;52;20 - 00;27;53;12
Tom Green
Head football coach.
00;27;53;13 - 00;28;03;18
Dave Logan
Head football coach, and, Bill Mallory came in and I'm going to play baseball in the spring and tell Coach Mallory said.
00;28;03;20 - 00;28;08;10
Tom Green
You're not and you're a sophomore. I'm a shot. Yeah. So. So you do with the coach.
00;28;08;10 - 00;28;11;23
Dave Logan
At that time, there was no portal. So you're no you're sort of where.
00;28;11;23 - 00;28;12;29
Tom Green
You was Irv coaching.
00;28;12;29 - 00;28;13;24
Dave Logan
Or was coaching the.
00;28;13;24 - 00;28;16;12
Tom Green
Baseball team then or was and who was the Sox?
00;28;16;12 - 00;28;41;01
Dave Logan
Was the Fox was the basketball coach. So I was playing football and basketball. Like my freshman year, the football team went to a bowl game. I didn't go to the bowl game. I went immediately to, to play basketball. So, you know, so, I mean, I initially I was going to go to Nebraska, but the first time I was ever on a plane in my life was my senior year in high school, and, went to Lincoln and took Bob Devaney.
00;28;41;03 - 00;29;01;26
Dave Logan
Yeah. Coach Osborne, was there and, I mean, it was it was a great trip. And they threw it a little bit. And, so, I mean, in my mind, I thought, you know, and they were the number one ranked team in the country, right? Yeah. Oklahoma was to see you was three. But ultimately I wanted to stay close closer to home.
00;29;01;26 - 00;29;15;21
Dave Logan
So my mom and dad family could could see me play and see you had a heck of a program. And, you know, they were going to let me and Notre Dame, Coach Siegen came to the house and.
00;29;15;23 - 00;29;16;06
Tom Green
That's pretty.
00;29;16;06 - 00;29;31;02
Dave Logan
Cool. That was that was pretty awesome. And then Digger Phelps was the basketball coach at Notre Dame. He came to the house and ironically, Coach Phelps tried to talk me out of playing football. And I'm thinking, man, you know.
00;29;31;02 - 00;29;51;15
Tom Green
So, I didn't get to see you play in college or in high school, but I, you know. Yeah. Dug into it a bit. Was football was the one you were best at or loved the most or what would you say you might have been better at basketball.
00;29;51;17 - 00;30;19;10
Dave Logan
I all, I think I always felt like I was going to play basketball, you know, I mean, I love football and I love, I loved kind of whatever I was doing, I couldn't wait. I couldn't wait to put on get on the next step. But I thought that, I, I thought that basketball would be the path that I would take.
00;30;19;10 - 00;30;38;07
Dave Logan
I broke my ankle at Siu in a practice, like, three weeks before the NFL draft, and so I had surgery. And that did not help my draft. My draft standing. I'd been drafted by the the Kings in the NBA the previous year. And what they said, were.
00;30;38;08 - 00;30;39;07
Tom Green
They in Kansas City?
00;30;39;07 - 00;30;59;05
Dave Logan
They were in Kansas City. Yeah, yeah. They said, hey, because I had a I had a another year of eligibility in basketball because I had been hurt in football my junior year, missed the entire basketball season. So they said, we want you to go back to school and, not have to come directly from a football season into basketball.
00;30;59;07 - 00;31;26;13
Dave Logan
But I thought at that point with the broken ankle and I'm like, you know, I think I'll, I think I'll just give this football thing a try. I, and I think with the Kansas City thing was interesting because my, my senior year in football, we played Texas in a bowl game and, Earl Campbell and, it was cause in Houston, we had the lead at halftime, they came back and they beat us.
00;31;26;13 - 00;31;44;13
Dave Logan
Caught a touchdown pass. The next morning, I flew to Kansas City because the basketball team was playing in the big eight, Christmas tournament. Right. And so coach Wal Smith, and I was beat up a little bit. I said, hey, listen, you know, I don't I'm not even sure I'm going to play. But here's, you know, get the uniform play.
00;31;44;13 - 00;31;56;10
Dave Logan
So anyway, I'm not even sure the circumstances, but he puts me in and it's one of those games time. I know you've had them to where just everything, everything you shoot goes in.
00;31;56;13 - 00;32;01;01
Tom Green
So you went right from the Bluebonnet Bowl the next day. You're playing in the big eight, I think.
00;32;01;04 - 00;32;04;03
Dave Logan
I think I flew Sunday and I think we played Monday.
00;32;04;03 - 00;32;05;17
Tom Green
And you're throwing everything's going to.
00;32;05;17 - 00;32;23;08
Dave Logan
Have like 24. And so but but that was in Kansas City right. So the Kings Larry Abramson ran the Kings. And he I remember approached me after the game, wanted to talk to me about like how did how did this whole thing sort of transpire. But it was just, you know, one of those games where it goes in.
00;32;23;08 - 00;32;31;26
Tom Green
In baseball, you were famously drafted in all three sports, but baseball, it was sliding off the track at this point for you. You'd play an outfielder pitcher.
00;32;31;26 - 00;32;33;26
Dave Logan
But I was I was drafted as a shortstop.
00;32;33;26 - 00;32;34;13
Tom Green
Shortstop?
00;32;34;13 - 00;32;38;22
Dave Logan
Yeah, by the Reds. And, but I was a pitcher in high school.
00;32;38;24 - 00;32;41;19
Tom Green
Reds were pretty good back then. That was the big red machine.
00;32;41;19 - 00;32;47;20
Dave Logan
Yeah. And I figured, you know, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to unseat Didi Concepcion at shortstop.
00;32;47;20 - 00;32;48;09
Tom Green
He's pretty good.
00;32;48;13 - 00;32;59;06
Dave Logan
Pretty good player. But, yeah, because I couldn't play baseball to see you. I would play in the summer, you know, play play against the Boulder Collegian. Some really good baseball talent here.
00;32;59;11 - 00;33;24;17
Tom Green
I, I chatted with you once about. See you. And and Cliff branch becoming a Hall of Fame. Yeah. Receiver Cliff branch played a little of that ahead of you. Yep. But he, And I'm amazed because he goes on to become a Pro Football Hall of Famer. And you look at his numbers and your numbers and JV Kane and Billy Whitey and Billy, all these professional wide receivers come out of Colorado and a Colorado.
00;33;24;17 - 00;33;29;29
Tom Green
You guys never threw the ball. No, I mean you you'd lead the team with 22 catches.
00;33;30;01 - 00;33;37;20
Dave Logan
Yeah I think I led the team for three years. And I think the the, the most passes I caught in the year was 23 and I was one.
00;33;37;20 - 00;33;40;28
Tom Green
Year under Eddie and two under Bill. That's right. You played Joe Mallory.
00;33;40;28 - 00;34;00;10
Dave Logan
Yep. And I and I joke about it, I said, you know, when when, when Coach Crowder recruited me, he told me they were going to throw it 40 times a game. And that's the reason that I came to see you. And I must have misheard. And he said 40 times a year, you know. So, no, it was it was a run first.
00;34;00;12 - 00;34;24;18
Dave Logan
I mean, it was a run first sort of time in football. Yeah. Even in the NFL. Sure. Right. I mean, when I went to Cleveland, we we had the first team in NFL history that had all five receivers in a single season, had 50 or more catches. But but that was at a time the the only the two teams that threw it the most were us and the Chargers.
00;34;24;24 - 00;34;40;28
Tom Green
Yeah. Hey, I want to show a clip, from, Dave's days with the Cleveland Browns from 1979.
00;34;41;00 - 00;35;03;23
Logan's amazing one handed grab put the Browns right back in the game. His athletic ability, which had surfaced so many times already during the 79 season, had been brilliantly showcased. Again talented enough to be drafted by pro baseball and basketball teams as well, Logan decided on football as his sport on the professional level with 910 remaining in the game.
00;35;03;23 - 00;35;13;15
There were many Clevelanders who were more pleased than ever with his joy and.
00;35;13;18 - 00;35;18;01
The score now was 44 to 35. Pittsburgh.
00;35;18;04 - 00;35;37;13
Tom Green
I love that clip for a variety of reasons. It's it's a catch. I remember having seen everyone used to watch this week in the NFL, and you would see these plays. But Mel Blunt, you've always talked about with fear and reverence. He was a terrific cornerback. Yeah. And that was on him. And you had something to say about it after you caught it.
00;35;37;19 - 00;35;59;22
Dave Logan
Well, we had we had battled, gosh, we battled twice a year and and I have and Mel's in the Hall of Fame. I mean, one of the great, great corners, one of the most imposing cornerbacks physically when he when he had an interest, in playing, it was going to be it was going to be one of those days.
00;35;59;22 - 00;36;24;02
Dave Logan
But in that game, I hadn't had a ball thrown the first half and I was frustrated. Anyway. And so anytime the Steelers and the Browns got together, there was a lot of, there was a lot of talking going on. Real physical, physical game. And on that particular play, you know, he he had my arm smartly. He had my arm pinned when I couldn't get my right arm through it all.
00;36;24;02 - 00;36;27;15
Dave Logan
So I, I just had to stick my left hand out. Unfortunately, the.
00;36;27;15 - 00;36;37;09
Tom Green
Giant left hand is the cover of Sports Illustrated. There's a great picture of you and Mel on that catch, but the size of your hand in relation to the football is pretty impressive.
00;36;37;13 - 00;36;57;10
Dave Logan
Yeah. And my reaction was, after I caught it, I lifted above my head and I'd been in the end zone, you know, three, 4 or 5 steps. And then he finally jumped over me and knocked that ball out of my out of my hand. So I turned to him and, you know, just said something. And he he barked back.
00;36;57;10 - 00;37;15;22
Dave Logan
And then I said, I said something else. The the funny story about this. When the Broncos played the Steelers in the AFC Championship game in 98, we Scott and I were doing the show from a Pittsburgh hotel, in the lobby, and Mel in his big cowboy hat.
00;37;15;22 - 00;37;16;08
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;37;16;10 - 00;37;29;09
Dave Logan
Is there. And I said, God, that's Mel Blount. So I went up and asked him if he'd come on the show any, and he said he would. And Scott, of course, was talking to him about, you know, things and.
00;37;29;11 - 00;37;30;02
Tom Green
Egging him on.
00;37;30;05 - 00;37;50;14
Dave Logan
Egging him on a little bit. And Mel said, you know the story about that. He said during the week leading up to the game in Pittsburgh. This was after the game in Cleveland. He said Jack would walk by my locker. Jack Lambert and say, Mel, you can let that waterboy kick your ass again. And so I'm like, oh man.
00;37;50;14 - 00;37;54;03
Dave Logan
I mean, no wonder you were. No wonder you were interested in playing.
00;37;54;03 - 00;37;59;27
Tom Green
So me being the stat hound, you caught more touchdowns against the Steelers than any team.
00;37;59;29 - 00;38;14;26
Dave Logan
Yeah, I had, I had, I had some of my best games against what I think to this day over, over a six year period is the is the greatest team. Yeah. In the NFL.
00;38;15;03 - 00;38;16;12
Tom Green
I got a few in the Hall of Fame.
00;38;16;12 - 00;38;22;07
Dave Logan
I think they have of their 22 starters. I think it's 1111 guys.
00;38;22;07 - 00;38;24;28
Tom Green
And they had to go play the Hall of Fame twice a year.
00;38;24;28 - 00;38;39;24
Dave Logan
Yeah it was. And back then it was a different different era. I'm glad they've they've clean things up you know now. But back then there it was. Anything goes. And you were I mean, you were tested. You your your willingness.
00;38;39;24 - 00;38;41;07
Tom Green
As a receiver especially.
00;38;41;07 - 00;38;50;02
Dave Logan
Yeah. You're going to go across the middle. Yeah. Was going to get tested and they were going to find out, you know, how serious you were about coming in there.
00;38;50;09 - 00;38;58;23
Tom Green
Yeah. Well I have a negative stat for you in your days with Cleveland. And when you played, you played the Broncos five times and you never.
00;38;58;23 - 00;38;59;04
Dave Logan
Beat them.
00;38;59;04 - 00;39;05;21
Tom Green
All in five. You did get a touchdown against him I did yeah. You caught a touchdown pass right up right by the pylon.
00;39;05;21 - 00;39;06;17
Dave Logan
Dennis Smith.
00;39;06;19 - 00;39;12;06
Tom Green
Yeah. So so that had to feel good. But was playing the Broncos important to you because it was your hometown.
00;39;12;06 - 00;39;35;14
Dave Logan
It was it really was. We came back my rookie year. I was the punt gunner. I mean, stop and think about this. I'm six five and 230. I was the punt gunner, covering punts back then. You could cut the gunner. And so, Rick Upchurch had not one but two punt returns for touchdowns in that game.
00;39;35;17 - 00;39;44;22
Dave Logan
But but one of the first kickoffs in the game, I'm like are two in the kickoff coverage team and I'm fired up. I mean, I'm home in Denver.
00;39;44;22 - 00;39;45;25
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;39;45;27 - 00;40;03;14
Dave Logan
So normally are two you just have to make sure you turn everything inside to those that really want to go down and stick their head in. And this time the ball was kicked to that side. And the wedge, you could, you could, you could lock arms. You could do a lot of stuff. The wedge slid over like right in front of me.
00;40;03;14 - 00;40;20;29
Dave Logan
And so I had to make a split second decision, like, okay, what am I going to do here? So I, I would not recommend anybody do this, but I ran as hard as I could and close my eyes, and I think I ducked my head and just torpedoed it with a wedge.
00;40;21;02 - 00;40;23;26
Tom Green
Would you have done that maybe anywhere else or just because you were in Denver?
00;40;23;26 - 00;40;41;17
Dave Logan
I think I think because I was in Denver, I was a little more excited about it, but almost knocked myself out. I started I got up and started walking to the Broncos bench and then that what I remember most is for us. Greg was our coach. He made a big deal about that in film. Yeah. So you know, here's a wide receiver.
00;40;41;19 - 00;40;45;16
Dave Logan
But I'm thinking, man, I would never, ever do that again in a million years.
00;40;45;16 - 00;40;49;13
Tom Green
Yeah. Sublimely. Yes. The guy sort of looking around going that guy's nuts.
00;40;49;13 - 00;40;50;09
Dave Logan
Yeah.
00;40;50;11 - 00;41;10;21
Tom Green
So you enjoyed Cleveland. Cleveland enjoyed you. You really did. You mentioned the five receivers. You got to play with guys like Paul Warfield and Reggie Rucker and some great Ozzie Newsome. Yeah, Ozzie. I mean just some great players. And you liked Cleveland a lot, but when it ended, you came back to Denver and Denver for all your love for Denver.
00;41;10;21 - 00;41;18;22
Tom Green
And you're growing up loving the Broncos. That wasn't a great fit for you at that. At the what became the end of your career. Right. Not a good time.
00;41;18;24 - 00;41;46;20
Dave Logan
No, I mean, no, it wasn't you know, it my last year I broke my ankle again. Playing, charity basketball. Right? Browns players traveling around the state trying to raise money for charity broke my ankle. And so that was in that was the night of my surgery. Was the night of the North Carolina State Houston basketball championships.
00;41;46;21 - 00;42;05;13
Dave Logan
I came out of the surgery in time to watch part of the game, but I was not ready for the training camp. The next year I went to camp, but I was, you know, I'd, you know, I'd lost. I'd lost a step. And so I struggled to get back. And so they had a new coordinator and the coordinator at the Browns, really, I don't think was feeling me too much.
00;42;05;15 - 00;42;21;25
Dave Logan
And the feeling was mutual. So after the end of the season, I still have a great relationship with Sam, particularly I don't I asked him, you know, if you could trade me, and then he said Denver was one of the teams interested. I said, hey, Sam, if you can work something out with Denver, that'd be great. So I was excited.
00;42;21;25 - 00;42;31;02
Dave Logan
Even though I know, I know, I had lost, you know, I'd lost a step. I could tell there were there were things that I used to be able to do that I couldn't do.
00;42;31;07 - 00;42;33;12
Tom Green
But you wanted to be a Bronco. I mean, that's that what I.
00;42;33;12 - 00;42;54;29
Dave Logan
Did, I always I mean, I was hoping the Broncos would draft me coming out of college. Yeah. I hadn't lost a step at that point. So I came back and, I was excited about it, but it was, it was really a challenge. I wasn't getting a lot of time in training camp. I felt like I could still play, and I've been a starter for, like, whatever, 7 or 8 years.
00;42;54;29 - 00;43;18;22
Dave Logan
And so, and John was, John was in his second year. Steve Watson was here. Mike Shanahan was my coach. Mike picked me up at the airport and had no idea who he was. He said, I'm, I'm your wide receiver coach. I said, okay, all right, well, good. So we go to camp. And I remember calling my agent, Jack Mills, you know, at camp and saying, Jack, I don't, I don't I don't get a good feel here.
00;43;18;22 - 00;43;36;25
Dave Logan
I don't think. Oh, yeah. Yep. They they love you. And, so the fourth game of the season, I was, I was really frustrated because I wasn't playing and I was, I was embarrassed, to tell you the truth.
00;43;36;27 - 00;43;39;14
Tom Green
You wanted to be on the field not watching the game. Yeah.
00;43;39;14 - 00;44;04;27
Dave Logan
I mean, gosh, so the fourth game we're playing the Chiefs at home, and Mike came in before the game and said, hey, you're going to be the fifth wide receiver today, which pretty much meant I wasn't going to play. And I said, well, how did that happen? And so he said, Dan said, okay, so.
00;44;05;00 - 00;44;22;03
Dave Logan
You know, I've already got the red ass. So somebody gets hurt in the game, so they have to play me. So I catch a pass. It wound up being the only pass I record from John. It was like a third down and I think it was like third and eight. And I've got a defensive back. I'm in this.
00;44;22;03 - 00;44;50;07
Dave Logan
I'm in the inside slot. I got a defensive back with hard leverage inside. I can't get inside, even though ideally you want to get inside on that release. So I went outside anyway, caught it and got tackled short. The first down came to the sideline and Coach Reeves is like furious, furious with me. And so I was raised where, you know, in these type situations, sporting events.
00;44;50;07 - 00;44;55;01
Dave Logan
I mean you have to let that coach, you know, make his point, right? It's not you.
00;44;55;01 - 00;44;55;17
Tom Green
Listen.
00;44;55;17 - 00;45;19;25
Dave Logan
You listen. Yeah. You're not talking back to him. You're not you're not debating him. You know what? He's the coach. And so I tried to interject with Dan. He had he had leverage I couldn't get. And he was, you know light me up I mean ten year wide receiver and you don't know that you got it. So I had to sort of bite through my lower lip.
00;45;19;28 - 00;45;55;29
Dave Logan
And I thought he was finished. And so I walked back to the bench and Like 30s 45 seconds later, he came. They they didn't have the they still had the cords set. Right. So Dan comes back and he's pulling the cord and he, he goes in for like round two. So, I think with my frustration, I was embarrassed that I was brought home on that playing.
00;45;56;01 - 00;45;57;05
Tom Green
It was the last straw.
00;45;57;06 - 00;46;19;12
Dave Logan
It was. And so I, I reacted in a way that, assuredly will get you cut and I magic words. I said the magic words to him and that was Sunday. And, and I got released on Tuesday and.
00;46;19;14 - 00;46;34;02
Dave Logan
You know, Dan's gone, but Dan and I, you know, we we we made up we we had our differences. But at the end, we had 2 or 3 great, great conversations.
00;46;34;02 - 00;46;37;25
Tom Green
Good. Yeah. Yeah. That that's really that's got to be valuable to you.
00;46;37;25 - 00;46;38;03
Dave Logan
Yeah.
00;46;38;03 - 00;46;54;19
Tom Green
Because if he know that he was unleashing a giant in the media that once you were done with all this silly cleat stuff that you would become team Dave Logan, that you would become the broadcaster you've become and subsequently the coach you've become.
00;46;54;19 - 00;46;56;05
Dave Logan
Yeah. He,
00;46;56;07 - 00;46;57;14
Tom Green
You're like Chuck Connors.
00;46;57;14 - 00;47;23;06
Dave Logan
I mean, without the rifle, I made I made a pact with myself that when I got into the media full time that I would not, ever put myself in a position to where I could be accused of. Well, you're saying this about Coach Reeves or the Broncos because he cut you. And so I just would never go there.
00;47;23;09 - 00;47;52;10
Dave Logan
There was one story that, is probably worth mentioning. I got up. I was having breakfast already set up early breakfast with my boss at Callaway that day. Got up 615, reading whichever paper was at that point. We had to. I was breaking my news. The post. Yeah. And I told him the sports section, which I always do, and, Reeves and the headline Reeves, upset with.
00;47;52;10 - 00;48;09;29
Dave Logan
And then I italics experts. I'm thinking, God, Ozzie, who's he pissed at? So I read down and and here he is quoted saying, you know, Terry Bradshaw, Dave Logan, all these guys that know everything about is like.
00;48;10;01 - 00;48;11;11
Dave Logan
What's he talking about here?
00;48;11;11 - 00;48;11;22
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;48;11;27 - 00;48;41;28
Dave Logan
So because I'd gone completely out of my way to never, ever put myself in a position. If I thought it was a bad call, then I would say, hey, you know, could you make the case? They could have done something different. Yes, you could, but I, I, I'd done that. So I had breakfast with my boss. I said, I want you to know, as soon as breakfast is over, I'm driving to the Broncos.
00;48;42;01 - 00;49;06;20
Dave Logan
He goes, I would really prefer you not do that. I said, I understand that, I do, and I appreciate your point. I'm going. So we finished breakfast. I drive out there two story. I get a speeding ticket going out there. Very smart. I get out there, I have two uniformed guards and meet me in the parking lot. They said, Dave, how you doing?
00;49;06;20 - 00;49;15;23
Dave Logan
I said, fellas, how are you? He said, John would like to see you. I said, I'm not here to see John. I'm here to see Dan. Yeah, but John wants to see and John was the GM of the team.
00;49;15;23 - 00;49;17;27
Tom Green
So they told him you were coming. Apparently.
00;49;17;27 - 00;49;30;29
Dave Logan
I think Lee called John. Yeah. Lee and John were very close. So John had me intercept and we I walk in. John's off. How are you doing? I said I'm doing good John. How you doing? Good. He said, listen.
00;49;31;01 - 00;49;50;14
Dave Logan
I have to put up with this every single day. I said, I understand that, but you're you're paid to put up with this. I don't know what this is. I'm going to be respectful, but I'm talking to Dan. Period. Okay. So Jim Sakamoto, our good friend, told Jim, he said, well, he's in his in meetings. I said, I'll just wait.
00;49;50;16 - 00;50;18;26
Dave Logan
So I waited for a couple hours and I'm standing there by the gate and Dan walks out with a tray of food and starts walking over to the coaches table. So I'm like, all right. So I beeline right to the coaches table. Jim doing his job intercepts me. This is Dave. I said, Jim, here's the thing. He's either going to come talk to me like now or I'm going over to the coaches table.
00;50;18;26 - 00;50;38;17
Dave Logan
What do you know? What are we doing? So Jim gets Dan to come over and Dan, you know Dan, Dan talked about hey, you know Pam saw that this morning. She thought you'd be upset. He said I, I was misquoted. What? But I had I had the time in the two hours to have back then you had the tape recorder.
00;50;38;17 - 00;50;57;20
Dave Logan
Yeah. And, I had gotten the, the tape recorder from the reporter who wrote the story, and he wasn't misquoted. No. And so, you know, it's just one of those things where, I just said, hey, man, I mean, listen, you know, I just want to know what what are the rules of engagement here? Because you come after me.
00;50;57;20 - 00;51;24;13
Dave Logan
I am said anything about you, and I did on purpose. And so he apologized. And again, I want to make it clear, we had 2 or 3 great conversations as Dan got older, and I was I was saddened by his passing. Yes, but it was it was hard for me just in Denver because I was so I was just so thoroughly embarrassed, on how the end of my career took place.
00;51;24;18 - 00;51;46;06
Tom Green
As athletic as you've been, though, I would always say, I when I see you, your pride and your competitive nature are always there. You've always had that. I had the pleasure when when, after Sal and he died, they inserted me into a broadcast with you and runs Apollo, to do the Seattle, the Washington, Colorado game.
00;51;46;08 - 00;52;05;29
Tom Green
So I got to spend some time with you on that weekend. And I remember, you know, I think Ryan likes to tease you to bring up Red, right? 88. And I just remember seeing, like, your hands change when someone that was the famous play where Brian Sipe, through the interception in Cleveland against Oakland, you guys were about to go to the AFC Championship game.
00;52;05;29 - 00;52;16;03
Tom Green
Yeah, I would imagine. You know, you get to be our age. You have regrets are there. You have plenty to choose from. But that would be one of the one of the bigger ones that sticks in your throat.
00;52;16;09 - 00;52;34;00
Dave Logan
Yeah. It was a it was a it was a tough one for sure. Because that was I mean, that was a year we started on two and then won 11 of the next 14. And I mean, we came from behind. Everything we did was there was a little bit of magic to it.
00;52;34;00 - 00;52;34;23
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;52;34;26 - 00;52;46;28
Dave Logan
And so we're one of the 13 yard line. The conditions were awful. And it was, I think 5 or 6 below zero with the wind chill. It was like 40 below. I mean, it was it was almost so cold.
00;52;47;01 - 00;52;48;02
Tom Green
Down to the minute to.
00;52;48;02 - 00;53;00;21
Dave Logan
Go that you didn't care. And that's and that's cold. But we drove we drove the length of the field. We'd missed two extra points in a field goal because it was like kicking on an ice rink.
00;53;00;21 - 00;53;02;03
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;53;02;06 - 00;53;17;26
Dave Logan
But we call timeout and and, Sam was talking about the set, and the last thing he said was a day's not open. Throw it in Lake Erie. Now, that was the wrong end of the field. Field for Lake Erie.
00;53;17;29 - 00;53;19;19
Tom Green
But it was it was strong.
00;53;19;22 - 00;53;46;07
Dave Logan
And and Brian and Brian was the I mean, Brian was the MVP of the league that year. Yeah. Brian Sipe was a terrific quarterback. And that was just one of those one of those plays where I mean the the sound. I will never forget the sound of that stadium because the we had 70 whatever 8000 people there. But it went from I mean it went from total bedlam to total silence in a split second.
00;53;46;09 - 00;53;52;29
Tom Green
Because it was you guys had you won, you would have seen the Chargers on your way to the Super Bowl. Would you have hosted that or would that have been.
00;53;52;29 - 00;54;05;22
Dave Logan
That have been San Diego? So yeah. Yeah, I think that have been a hell of a game. But I think our defense was a little better than ours. I think both defenses would have struggled in that game, but I don't think San Diego would have ever got us stopped.
00;54;05;24 - 00;54;32;19
Tom Green
I don't want to end on a bad note, because I know that's not your favorite moment in in your playing days, coaching. You know, you've just won another state championship. 13. Now, is it something you keep doing? You do tell when, when, when do you get the. That's good. It's hard to see because you appear to be still like in Mid-stride on it.
00;54;32;21 - 00;54;40;25
Dave Logan
Yeah. I, I, I don't really know. I think,
00;54;40;28 - 00;54;55;09
Dave Logan
My goal would be to leave a year or two early rather than holding on and, and somebody trying to figure out like Lehman, how do we gracefully tell this.
00;54;55;11 - 00;54;56;00
Tom Green
Codger.
00;54;56;00 - 00;54;59;15
Dave Logan
Old dude, we appreciate him, but so.
00;54;59;15 - 00;55;08;19
Tom Green
So but just by phrasing it like that, you get there. There is not. You don't see the sunset. You say a year or two early means you're still down the road.
00;55;08;19 - 00;55;34;05
Dave Logan
I mean, I think so. I think there are many, many, many challenges to being a high school coach and running a big a big program. I mean, some of them I enjoy more than others, for sure. But I think, I think as long as I know why coach Wright I coach to to impact kids, to be able to interact with them.
00;55;34;11 - 00;55;56;09
Dave Logan
To mentor them. Yes. To teach them some football and yes, to hopefully put them in positions where, you know, they can they can be successful. I do it, I've always done it to honor my parents. My mom passed in 2021. My dad, my dad passed before he had a chance to even see me coach a game in 1993.
00;55;56;09 - 00;56;22;03
Dave Logan
So. But I, you know, and I was an only son, so, that's still an important component, for me in this. You absolutely do not. Coach is not going to be in your tombstone that you won however many games you won, and you lost however many, and you won how many state titles. It really isn't the joy I get out of it.
00;56;22;05 - 00;56;45;04
Dave Logan
I love competing and I love the X's and O's and the strategy involved. And I love film, and I love to sit and look at film and try to figure out, okay, what exactly are they doing here? And and what does that mean? Then go back and look at a previous game. Did they do that? That that stuff is always, always been important to me.
00;56;45;06 - 00;56;47;22
Tom Green
It's triggering. Yeah. You like that I do seeing.
00;56;47;22 - 00;56;56;16
Dave Logan
It I really do. Yeah. You know, I may have had chances to coach at different levels, and it just hasn't felt right.
00;56;56;18 - 00;57;16;17
Tom Green
It's the last thing I to did. See you ever. Because people always thought you would have loved to have coached at CU, and you didn't have what they would have considered the true resume. Correct. As a high school coach. Yeah. But even as an Add or anything, have you ever come close to have they ever sincerely approached you about working at your alma mater there?
00;57;16;24 - 00;57;42;18
Dave Logan
I would say no. I mean, you and KR for me, the job, the head job in 2011 and, and actually thought about that, I mean, Dick Monfort asked if I would just go up and interview and and I did, but I would have had to give up everything. And I think at that point, and I countered their offer, and I said it was a five year offer.
00;57;42;18 - 00;57;50;24
Dave Logan
And I said, listen, we're going to win a national championship within five years. And when we do, then, you know, these are the numbers for my assistant coaches and we can.
00;57;51;00 - 00;57;53;12
Tom Green
So you had a full blueprint.
00;57;53;14 - 00;58;12;10
Dave Logan
I really did. But I think in the long run it would have been such a, family change and lifestyle change. And I just, I think it might have been a path if I really wanted to do it. To bounce up, after.
00;58;12;10 - 00;58;18;29
Tom Green
I had see you come at you sincerely. You probably would have. You would have been dying to do it. I would.
00;58;18;29 - 00;58;44;14
Dave Logan
I would have I would have absolutely listened because that that that was I mean, that was my school. Yeah. You know, and I, I mean, I understood the feeling that. Hey, Dave, I mean, you've been a high school coach. It's a different deal. And I think I've always prided myself on being able to identify what you don't know.
00;58;44;17 - 00;58;46;16
Tom Green
Know what you don't know. Yeah.
00;58;46;18 - 00;59;06;28
Dave Logan
Right. And then you hire people that do know and then you you learn. But from a competitive thing. I mean, it would probably not have been good for my health. I mean, honestly, because there would have been times, you know, if we'd have, you know, because I have watched them so long back. Let's say ten, 12 years ago when things were really struggling.
00;59;06;28 - 00;59;16;18
Dave Logan
I mean, if we had a loss to and then just fill in the blank by a final score of this at home, I'd have been I'd have been suicidal.
00;59;16;24 - 00;59;23;11
Tom Green
That's how they ended up with Bill McCartney. I mean, it was they wanted Chuck Shelton from Drake after losing to Drake two years in a row.
00;59;23;11 - 00;59;24;13
Dave Logan
And lost to Drake.
00;59;24;13 - 00;59;28;16
Tom Green
And then Chuck didn't want the job and they went and got this other guy. Bill McCartney.
00;59;28;16 - 00;59;31;11
Dave Logan
Worked out pretty well. Pretty? Yeah. Yeah.
00;59;31;14 - 00;59;41;09
Tom Green
I appreciate your time. I love talking to you. It's it's, It is an incredible life. It's. You're better than Chuck Connors.
00;59;41;11 - 00;59;57;21
Tom Green
Well, we we always talk about it. Yeah. I mean, the the three sport athlete was was great. And also then you think of the, the lives you've led as a broadcaster, as a coach and as a player. It's, nonpareil. It's it's terrific. And I love you. I love knowing you and I love you taking the time to share with us.
00;59;57;25 - 00;59;58;25
Dave Logan
You bet. Enjoy seeing it.
00;59;58;26 - 01;00;01;29
Tom Green
Thanks, Dave.
01;00;02;02 - 01;00;20;02
Tom Green
Terrific conversation with Dave Logan. So we want to give special thanks, of course, to Dave spending his time and sharing his stories with us. And also to the great Chuck Connors. I mean, the Rifleman, that's that's pretty cool. That is going to do it for this edition of, the other Tom green Show. We try to do one every week.
01;00;20;02 - 01;00;31;15
Tom Green
So far, so good. We hope to see you back here again next week. You can always reach out to us here at gorilla Sportsnet. We look forward to your feedback and look forward to seeing you again for another show next week.