For the second year in a row, Mother Nature did its best to upstage the Colorado Rapids in their opening match at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Last year, the Rapids opened their season with a CONCACAF Champions League match at home in what would turn out to be the coldest match contested by MLS teams in history — a match that they lost, 2-0. This year, despite a host of new players for Colorado, it was the return of a frosty winter that upstaged all the debutantes.
For those of you impressed by the record-breaking freezing temperature in this weekend’s Rapids vs Timbers (18° F):
On Feb 20, 2018, Colorado faced Toronto FC in a CCL Rd16 match with a 3°F temperature in Commerce City at kickoff.