My friend Mark and I drove to the Flytco Brewing Tower this past Sunday morning to watch Leeds play it's last soccer game of the season with the Leeds United Colorado fan club, as seen posing for the official photographer in the above photograph (Mark, by the way, is on the far right). This was a critical game for Leeds. They had to win this match, and both Leicester City and Everton had to lose, for them to stay in the English Premier League. Sadly, Leeds lost and will be relegated to the Championship League along with Leicester City and Southampton, which is the equivalent of a major league baseball team being demoted to a AAA league. And White Sox, Cubs, and Colorado Rockies fans should thank their lucky stars that that can't happen in baseball. On the bright side, even if they had won, Leeds would still have been relegated, since Everton won its game, and so cheer up, Leeds fans, and wait until next year.
Meanwhile, the television broadcast team showed Leeds fans in the stands after the game, and as seen in the photograph on the left, they did not look happy. Does this mean attendance will fall next year when the team begins play in the Championship League? Will the fans stop going to games and instead choose to do all the other fun things that Leeds has to offer? Silly question - I suspect going to the soccer match is the only fun thing to do in Leeds.
After the game, while we were leaving, I took a photograph of Mark in front of the Flyteco Brewing Tower, as seen in the photograph on the right. It is located in what used to be the control tower for Denver's old Stapleton International Airport. This airport was only 20 minutes away from central Denver, and so of course it had to be moved out onto the Great Plains near the Kansas border to make the trip to the airport more of an adventure, especially during snowstorms. But I digress. The game started at 9:30 A.M. Denver time, and it was pretty dark in the brewery. It felt to me like being there before the place opened for an employee meeting, but the staff was friendly, they had coffee with free refills, breakfast items on the menu, and were very accommodating to such a large group. My only complaint was that there is no bar at the top of the tower. Now THAT would be a great place for a beer. And you would need one after walking up all those stairs. Hopefully plans are in the works.
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