Die-Hard Broncos Fan Wyndham Clark Just Boasted He Could Do WHAT?!?!

Wyndham Clark wants the Denver Broncos to know he is available. Not as a mascot. As a kicker.

The conversation started where any conversation with a die-hard fan starts in late June: optimism. Asked about a Bo Nix week-one return and any nerves about the coming season, Clark waved off the worry. "We made some incredible moves in the offseason," he told Rich, calling the Waddle addition huge and saying he liked the draft. In his read, last year's team was good enough to win it all. The difference, he said, was Nix getting hurt. Healthy, Clark believes the Broncos could have beaten the Seahawks and pushed deeper into January.

The ankle is the question hanging over the optimism, and Clark knows it. He just chose to bet on the player. Nix "got beat down at Auburn, came to Oregon where I graduated from, and had an amazing year," Clark said, before doing "amazing in the NFL for our team." If Nix is right physically, Clark thinks a championship game is back in play.

Then the bit took over, and this is where Clark talked his way into a job he may not have wanted.

Rich started riffing on how the Broncos might honor their famous fan. Seattle has its horn. Cleveland breaks a guitar. Could Denver bring Clark out on a horse? Clark had a better idea: put on a uniform and handle the first kickoff, maybe run a couple of routes. Rich pressed. Do you have a leg? "I can maybe kick it 30, 40 yards," Clark said. "It would be like one of those squib kicks."

A 30-yard field goal, though? That is where the golfer's competitive streak flared.

"Oh, 100%," Clark said. "I'll prove it. I'll post it and send it to you." Rich, sensing a man committing on live television, simply noted that this was now a bit. Clark hedged with a backup plan, offering to be the water boy and carry the U.S. Open trophy out to the field filled with water. Rich approved of that one too, drawing the line only at the kid who scoops up the tee after kickoffs. Clark, he decided, was not that guy.

The kicker has one condition. Pressure is not welcome. "Hopefully it's one where we're up 31 to 3 and there's five minutes left," Clark said. He did not want to miss a field goal and earn the wrath of Denver fans. "I don't want any more hate in my life, all right?"

Rich reminded him it would only be the preseason, then caught himself, noting that Sean Payton coaches the fourth quarter of August games as if it were January. Clark loved that answer. "That's why he's goated," he said. "That's why he's won championships and is going to take us to one this next year."

Now somebody just needs to hold him to the field goal.