In a year of the unexpected, the phone call Drew Moor received from coach Robin Fraser certainly ranks.
Fraser had some specifics, but the main question to Moor: “Are you ready?”
Moor was ready. And he packed his whistle.
For the next few days, Moor pulled into Fraser’s parking spot at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. He joked with teammates he would play himself the full 90 and award the captain armband to himself.
That’s right. The 36-year-old center back was about to become the Rapids’ player-coach.
Fraser had come down with COVID-19, which spread quickly through Colorado’s coaching staff.