Rocky Mountain High

Dave Logan sits comfortably in his hotel room at Kansas City’s posh Crown Center talking football with me while stealing looks at the Oakland Raiders-San Diego Chargers game on the TV. As we talk, his cell phone rings. It’s his teenage daughter, Cassidy, back home in Colorado checking in for the evening. Near the end of the interview, the room phone rings. This time it’s Logan’s broadcast partner, Scott Hastings, wondering when the two will be departing for their customary night-before-the-game dinner and movie. Later in the evening, Logan will put together his play-by-play boards and final notes before calling tomorrow’s Broncos-Chiefs game on Denver’s KOA-AM radio. It’s all a typical late December Saturday afternoon in the life of a high school football coach. Maybe not any other high school coach, but there’s nothing extraordinary about it for Chatfield (Littleton,