DENVER - KDKA today revealed that reporter John Shumway was forced to fight his way out of a downtown Denver sports bar filled to capacity with furious Bronco fans after the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Broncos in Sundays AFC Championship Game. Shumway was walking through the bar doing a live remote broadcast for KDKA when he approached a member of a Denver Motorcycle Club and asked him "how it felt to be rooting for a bunch of losers." The man immediately leaped from his stool and pulled a knife on Shumway, who broke a bottle against the bar and stuck it within an inch of his assailant's face. Eyewitnesses say that Shumway slowly backed out of the bar, promising to "cut to shreds any dumb sonofabitch fool enough to take me on." When he reached the exit, Shumway threw his camera man into the crowd and ran to his car and sped off. Shumway vows to set up a scholarship fund for the man's surviving children.
"I've been on some pretty tough assignments," said Shumway. "Last Fourth of July, my producer sent me to Baghdad dressed as Uncle Sam to interview average Iraqi citizens. He said he only wanted footage of me talking to people wearing black hoods. But this Denver trip was my toughest yet." Shumway plans to take some time off before heading into the Laurel Highlands for a special February sweeps report that Shumway promises to be his most exciting yet. "It's on what happens to hibernating bears when you poke them with a stick," he said.
