As a Pueblo native and life-long fan of the game of professional football and the Denver Broncos, ESC’s founder and Executive Director (Retired) Patrick Scoggin began collecting football-related memorabilia some 30 years ago. His expertise in the area of gridiron collectibles has been widely utilized. He has served as an information resource to the editors of Sports Collector’s Digest (SCD) and Tuff Stuff; contributed to the publication of the Sports Americana Football Card Price Guide; and, has acted as a regional correspondent for Beckett’s Football Card Monthly magazine. As the Executive Director of Endzone Sports Charities, Patrick served as webmaster of The Broncos Endzone and also published a Denver Broncos alumni newsletter, ESCs Broncos Corral. Currently Patrick is a consultant working with ESC and also established and administers the Broncos Alumni group (BAg) on Facebook.
After serving six years in the U.S. Air Force (1982-’88), Patrick earned a B.S. degree in Business and Management from the University of Maryland (1989) prior to spending time working in the fields of aircraft maintenance, commercial real estate brokerage and the mirco-brewing industry–where he was general manager and brew master of B.F. Coleman Brewing Corp (1994-’98). After toiling as a production manager in the corporate/manufacturing world for the next twelve years, he then decided to ‘follow his passion’ and returned to school in 2011, where he earned a culinary arts degree. Employed as a both a working chef for a variety of entities as well as serving as an adjunct instructor at Pueblo Community College’s culinary arts department, Patrick retired in 2018 and currently resides in Pueblo, Colorado.
ESCs Patrick Scoggin with Broncos QB John Elway in 1997 (first); with 1960 alum DB Frank Bernardi at 2006 alumni game (second); with ROFer Steve Atwater in Dec ’07 (third).