After spending the first five years of his career with the Chargers, new Broncos running back Melvin Gordon won’t be able to help but notice having a home-field advantage seemingly for the first time as a pro.
“You definitely have a way bigger fan base,” Gordon said during a conference call with reporters on March 27. “Since I’ve been a Charger, there was always — I always felt like it was an away game when we played the Broncos and pretty much any team. Definitely at Qualcomm, it was always a sea of orange. We just didn’t have that many fans.”
Players will debate about whether or not having loud fans actually makes much of a difference in a game. Gordon says the biggest benefit is feeling the good moral.
“On third downs and things like that, having our fans kind of making noise and putting off the opposite opponent [would be nice], but we didn’t have that [with the Chargers]. It is what it is.”
Gordon and his new teammates should have no trouble drawing good moral from Broncos fans, who pack the team’s stadium every week.
