Oooh, my soul. I am happy to say that the Rockies are causing me to run thin on song lyrics to head these posts. Today I resort to David Essex? It’s a nice problem to have.
The seemingly unstoppable Colorado Rockies are National League Champions and going to their first ever World Series, having made Major League Baseball history by sweeping seven straight games to get there. One year ago, I said in this space that St. Louis is “a real baseball town, unlike Denver…”. For saying this, I should be flogged in public quite remorseful, and I am. The truth is, Denver is a real sports town. Period.
We keep no less than eight professional sports franchises thriving in this area, including two lacrosse teams for God’s sake! Never mind the three major universities and all of their various sports. (A special nod to the CU Buffs for knocking off Oklahoma this year. Yes, in football, not lacrosse.) And if we gather my former town of Colorado Springs into the equation, we are talking about two more universities and the Rockies’ Triple-A minor league team, the Sky Sox.
In Denver, we have thrown two Super Bowl parades and two more parades for the Avalanche’s wins of the Stanley Cup in 1996 and 2001. It’d be nice to see the Rockies put a little pressure on the Nuggets to get Denver where only New York has gone before as a sports town — all of her professional teams having enjoyed a national championship. In fact, thanks to the Colorado Mammoth having won the National Lacrosse League championship in 2005, Denver could actually surpass New York in this area, as well as in available parking.
So yeah, the knock in the Phoenix press about “Denver isn’t a real baseball town” was not something I intended to contribute to, but I guess I have. I guess this is my first stab at the losers in Phoenix, especially Eric Byrnes rectifying that.
