Nuggets mascot lays out youth football player

The Cardinals took on the Broncos in Denver for each team’s final preseason tune-up on Thursday, and while the game featured plenty of action among those players fighting for a roster spot, the most memorable hit may have come from a basketball mascot.

The Cardinals took on the Broncos in Denver for each team’s final preseason tune-up on Thursday, and while the game featured plenty of action among those players fighting for a roster spot, the most memorable hit may have come from a basketball mascot.

A youth football team from a Boys & Girls Club took on a group of mascots at halftime of the game and one player got the boom lowered on him by Rocky, the Nuggets official mascot.

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The Broncos fell to the Cardinals 22-20 in the contest, and one can’t help but wonder if the team would have prevailed with the added intensity of Rocky in its secondary.