Friends, family remember Thornton man and Broncos fan killed in motorcycle crash

This week’s Orange Zone is honoring the life of Gabe Vigil, who died in a motorcycle crash just before Christmas.

He was a Broncos fan since the day he was born in 1978, the first year the team went to the Super Bowl.

“First time I went to the nursery to go see him, the sweetest nurse, she dressed him in a Broncos outfit,” said Mary Jones, Gabe’s mother. “They had him swaddled in a Broncos blanket and a cute little Broncos hat, and I said, ‘there we go.'”

It was the start of his love for the Broncos that lasted his entire life. He became known as Broncos Warrior or Bronco Gabe and was always the life of the party…

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