Five years, three websites, and a cross-country move ago, I began writing a weekly column on the Colorado Rapids. The column, entitled ‘Backpass’, was a mashup of soccer tactics, nerdy pop culture references, my own rambly life musings, gifs of gorgeous golazos and advanced metrics a lá Bill James. And now, dear reader, it has arrived at the vaunted digital palace of The Denver Post. Let’s hope I don’t make a total hash of it.
For those of you old-timey readers who’ve followed me here through thick and thin: THANK YOU. Thanks for enduring those times when I have gone ‘the full Bill Simmons’ and wandered dangerously off-topic for several paragraphs when all you really wanted was an explanation of how the Rapids defense broke down again.