For Brian Simmons, it was baseball blasphemy.
On July 4, the 47-year-old baseball fanatic from Conifer was sitting in his dream seats at Coors Field, perched 26 rows behind the Rockies dugout. The home team was leading San Francisco, 1-0, as the game entered the ninth inning. Closer Wade Davis was on the mound, trying to protect the lead and get the Rockies back to .500.
Suddenly, the wave emerged, swamping all fans in its path.
Perhaps the wave started that night because there was a party atmosphere brewing as the sellout crowd waited for the postgame fireworks.