Welcome to the greatest new addition to the Colorado sports calendar: championship parades through the streets of downtown Denver.
For the second year in a row, the Front Range sports year crested in June with an alcohol-fueled celebration of professional sports immortality — which also happened to be the first of its kind for the Denver Nuggets.
Much like the Avs’ bash 12 months earlier, it was a day when open-container laws in the streets of Denver were more of a suggestion than actual enforced law.
And, outside of a few extremely awful exceptions, it was glorious.