I just visited the Denver Post site and they have sections for the Mammoth and Crush, but nothing for the Rapids. I know it is the off-season, but there are still things to write about. What can the Rapids do to get any respect with the Post? It is pretty frustrating that there is a section for indoor lacrosse, but nothing to cover the signing of Grimandi, the draft or any other Rapids' stories. On the other side, the Rocky Mountain News has added the Mammoth and Crush as well, but continue to keep the Rapids as a menu item. So there are some positives in the local media coverage.
What about our own website!! It is pathletic....They have new news as new from November.....We should of least have updated news.
dawgpound, both the rags in Denver are horrible, I just hope you're not one of the Nazi youth that write into the op-eds of the Republican Mountain News from Highlands Ranch, Littleton, and rural Colorado? Local News in Colorado is a sad state of affairs... Rapids coverage will only come with one thing... Winning, and that is because Colorado fans of all franchises are fickle and fairweathered... I give the Mammoth 1 season (remember the Denver Rifles???), and the Elway gig 3, because he'll pay for it, unlike his dog license (becuase taxes are for little people) That guy has a trail of failed business ventures behind him long enough for us to feel secure. Unless he were to rename the team the Elways (but then there'd probably be an internal split). So let them both have their little webpage on the RMN and DP sites, because everything there is so bland and ridiculous and lots of times not factual that the Sports fan beginning to become interested in Soccer might be just as turned off as turned on by their crap sites... I agree with the Rapids needing to rejuvinate their website, they are doing a shitty job of educating the masses. However, our franchise seems to reflect the owner, very wizard of Oz like, but the franchise is stable, ticket sales are up, and player personnel is quality...
I just want to offer a small defense of the Rapids website, though I'm a little peeved at the lack of updates. The Rapids PR department is going through a total overhaul. The assistant PR rep left/was let go in December and the main PR rep is leaving at the end of the month to oversee the Man U. tour this summer and possibly taking a position with the club afterwards. Not a total excuse because they could have much more going on but I know that the remaining PR rep's priorities are not completely with the Rapids at this point. It may explain the lack of news coming from them. That said, I would love to see more than just the token article on Grimandi and the Draft and also more than just a weekly update.
First of all, sadly, I probably have toe jam older than you. Secondly, I don't like the Denver Post's sports section. It's crap, and that's what I'm referring to. Where you came up witht the other junk is kind of frightening me.
That's a pretty funny line, although you could be just a little older than He's In Fashion and have miserable hygene. I saw from your info that you are from LA. I am guessing He's In Fashion is alluding to the political perspectives of each paper and the different rants people from different parts of town write in on issues with which you would not be familiar. He wasn't trying to be frightening, just venting a little liberal frustration.
Been there. Done that. I actually wrote both the Post and the RMN last year. I actually got a response from the editor at RMN and they put the Rapids as a menu item a couple weeks later. No such luck with the Post.
Same here. I wrote to the Post to ask them why they removed "Rapids" from the the navigation list and received a response that said "because they're not playing right now." Of course, neither are the Rockies or Broncos...
and shame on 9 News too Yeah, you can't blame the Post without throwing some other blame around... The night that the U.S. shut out Canada, I was watching the 10 p.m. news on channel 9. I know better than to expect a soccer story anywhwere in the main part of the sportscast, but sometimes they'll deign to give it a token mention at the very end, a la human interest story. Well, the night of our shutout, the final bit of news on the sportscast was about........ice golf in Minnesota. !!! Their head sports producer heard from me about that the very next day, and still not so much as an acknowledgment of my e-mail to him. *sigh*
Why are you watching local news that isn't channel 7 anyway? Lionel always tries to pimp soccer... That's the only local news I even watch but honestly I'd rather watch Fox News Channel than any of the local tripe.
Getting attention from the Post is sort of a double-edged sword with me. Yeah, I'd like to see more coverage. The thing is I'd like to read good coverage. I'd like to know if line ups were changed. I'd like to know if Hankinson stuck with a system, or adjusted to the other team. I'd like to know who won the key matchups. Who at the Denver Post will write any of this? I certainly don't want any of their editorial staff writing about soccer, they don't know the game (although they'll claim that having watched youth soccer qualifies them.) So more coverage would be nice, but I'll wait until they have someone qualified to do it. As for the indoor lacrosse and football. They're both the afterbirth of their namesake sports. The only reason that they'll get covered is the novelty. Here's my modest proposal for coverage. We should petition channel 7 news to give us tuesday nights with Lionel. Report on the last game, report on the next game, and let us know what's going on with the team. Make it a destination for area soccer fans to get their coverage. Put up a poster in the supporters section recognizing the coverage, pimp it for em. Write to the sponsors for that night and let them know we're watching and we appreciate it. We're too small a group of supporters to demand coverage from every media outlet, but we can get our niche filled if we ask for it. Hell I'd even take the Boulder Camera if they'd give us the coverage that the Denver Daily's don't.
Newspapers Most of the "print" takes the opportunity to slam soccer, but during the world cup, Woody paige come to his senses and had a nice soccer column, as did Kiszla (I think him) after the Rapids/Burn playoffs. Otherwise, ignorance has rules the print as well as the TV/Radio. You know, I wouldn't mind thoughtful pieces ("I appreciate the play,but can't watch golf or soccer...."). The biggest reason is that they have nothing to say about soccer. They don't understand the game, the play, etc. So they fill up the pages/5minutes with something that they at least have the names for...("say Fred, whatcha call the guy who plays on the side, is that the flanker?") RLH