No Beckham

We had anticipated to see David Beckham yesterday at the Colorado Rapids vs LA Galaxy soccer game here in Commerce City. All the tickets to this game were sold out. 500 standing only tickets were added because everyone here wanted to see David Beckham.

On Friday night, however, there was a news release that Beckham would not come to Colorado because he had played 3 games before this weekend and needed rest. Dick's Sporting Goods Park Stadium announced that no refunds would be available for the tickets sold.

Fortunately, our tickets were free since my department got 44 tickets to give away to employees. We still went to the game despite the disappointing news. We got to the stadium an hour and 15 minutes early. The gate wouldn't open till 1 hour before the scheduled game.

Susan bought Biajee and me each a draft Budweiser to cool down the summer heat. Arnold behaved really well. Once we entered the stadium, the guards told us we couldn't go out because they didn't have a re-entry policy. Biajee was livid because he was going back to the car to fetch the sunscreen for Arnold. I had to used the sunscreen from my coworker Shannon on Arnold.

The Rapids swept the game 3-0 in the first half. LA Galaxy didn't have a good strategy in either defense or offense. What a pity that Beckham had to play for such a mediocre team! We don't think Galaxy would win even when Beckham was there. It was a complete one-sided game.

Biajee snatched a free Colorado Rapids T-Shirt during the half-time. We never had such luck of grabbing any free goodies during the previous sports games we watched. "It's different when you have a baby." I said to him later. "You have to get one for your son."

We left at 80 minutes and the score was still 3-0. We decided to beat the traffic although the stadium only seats 18,000 people.