Former Seattle Sounder, now Rapids winger Marco Pappa scored a brilliant goal in the 95th minute to cap his Colorado home opener and stun the L.A. Galaxy, because of course he did.
In the last nine months of the telenovela that has been Pappa’s tumultuous soccer career, he was arrested for DUI in downtown Seattle and returned in time for the playoff push. His trade to Colorado went official two nights before he was found in an apartment with a 3-inch stab wound and a former Miss Washington USA pageant winner. “Marco Pappa says stabbing made him stronger than ever,” is a headline that exists.