Monday, October 03, 2005

Denver Road Trip: Part 1

With sleepy eyes and drums in tow a group of 23 devoted RSL supporters set out at a quarter to midnight in a bus from the RSL head office at Trolley Corners in downtown Salt Lake headed for Denver to witness the third match up in the Rocky Mountain Cup.

Since Real is out of the playoffs and there is nothing else to play for, the RMC is a nice consolation on a less than stellar season.

Besides, the trip has been planned since may - there's no way we were going to back out now.

Our excellent driver, Bob, soldiered all through the night behind the wheel. We ended up making it to denver in 9 hours. Nice time under any circumstances, but especially since we stopped three times before leaving Utah to fix the heater and the door (which blew open).

Sleeping didn't really happen. Only in short increments. You only realized you slept when you caught yourself waking up - if that makes sense.

Arriving at our hotel, Embassy Suites, early (around 9am) most people took a quick shower and then headed downtown. Our large group split into smaller groups as we explored the city of Denver. With our group most of the day was spent walking the 16th Street Mall, during which we caught a large group of RSL clad gents out for a mandatory team walk. We stopped and wished our boys luck against the cRapids.

Lunch was had at a sports pub called Brooklyns, right by the Pepsi Center. We were met there by 1280 color man Wayne Scholes and RSL Marketing Director Trey Fitz-Gerald. Both class acts.

There was plenty of college pointy ball on the screens around the store. The most painful was watching Texas dismantle my Missouri Tigers on national television.

After eating discussion circulated around various RSL players and speculating what we thought of them and whether they would be in Salt Lake next season. Such conversations when it involves members of the front office and the media.

Before heading out to the stadium we saw the Colorado state capital. Time also allowed for a few minutes of recuperating at the hotel as we gathered back into our large group in preparations for the game.

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