COMMERCE CITY — The Rapids have a special weapon for the playoffs who drives a khaki green BMW X6 with California vanity plates. Both car and driver, Jermaine Jones, are high-performance products of Germany. Jones has a friend who customizes cars, hence the Beamer’s unique military hue.
“He told me, ‘Let’s do something special,’ ” Jones said this week. “I said, ‘OK, I let him do it.’ Since then we say it’s the German Panzer.”
Jones, a star on the U.S. national team thanks to his dual American-German citizenship, was the Rapids’ most exciting player during the first half of the season, scoring three goals and adding two assists in eight starts.