Colorado went eye to eye with the defending champs. We learned that this 2016 Rapids team gets something it never used to in past years: respect.
In a famous moment during the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis between the US and USSR, after nearly going to thermonuclear war over the placement of ICBMs in the Western hemisphere, after expressing utter obstinance until the very brink of war was glimpsed, the Soviet Union relented and agreed to remove their weapons. War was averted. A posturing power admitted that they were not superior to the US, but accepted being mere equals.