Did you ever wonder ?

0 Comments | Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), Oct 7, 2007

I'm curious why NFL players, usually the biggest ones, wear bands of some sort above their elbows.

Some wear one, others two and some don't wear them at all.

My husband guessed they're sweatbands.

Melissa J.

We ended up with three reasons for the bicep bands: sweatbands, preventing tendinitis or making big biceps look really good.

Fitness trainers tended toward the tendinitis-prevention answer. Others went with "looking studly."

Paul Kirk, who does public relations for the Denver Broncos, checked with the team equipment manager, who said they're basically just sweatbands worn above or below the elbow and they're "just for show."

Many have the NFL or Nike logos or sometimes something original.

SPEEDY DRIVERS: I have a question regarding speed limits here in Colorado.

I recently drove through several construction zones between Colorado Springs and Denver on a Sunday.

I was doing the speed limit through them all, but it seemed like all other traffic did not slow down at all.

There was more than one occasion where I was even honked at and/ or tailgated severely.

Don't we have to obey those limits even when the workmen are not present?

The sign doesn't say speed limit except on weekends. Isn't the same true for school zones? Don't we have to obey that limit even on weekends? (I'm only referring to the ones that don't have lights to indicate the school zone.)

Karen Holton

The speed limits on the highway are 24/7, seven days a week. You're doing it correctly unless you're driving in the left passing lane when you're not passing. Police advised just staying in the right (slower) lane, doing the speed limit and ignoring the road- rage folks. They'll get the tickets, not you.

The school-zone signs have either a flashing light or give the hours when the schoolzone speed restrictions are in effect. Other times it's the regular speed limit.

OLD BRIDGE: While riding the bike path near Gossage fields I noticed the crumbling remains of a concrete bridge over Monument Creek.

It is level with the west side but runs right into a hillside on the east. What is the story of this pretty but decaying bridge remnant?

John Cunningham

This was the Cascade Avenue bridge, which was destroyed in the 1935 Monument Creek flood. Cascade Avenue (Colorado Highway 1) had been the main route out of town to Monument and Denver. When more convenient roads and highways with fewer twists and turns were constructed, there was no need to repair this bridge to nowhere.

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