J. Sam Jones

“I'm gonna be real honest with you. I have a hard time even remembering what happened five years ago,” Pablo Mastroeni told MLSsoccer.com. “I only recall the incident with myself and Mr. Checketts.”

The Rocky Mountain Cup, the yearly trophy competition between the Colorado Rapids and Real Salt Lake , has been running for 20 years now. Mastroeni, a Rapids legend and the current RSL head coach, has been involved in 18 of them in some way or another. But in two decades' worth of rivalry, one moment sticks out: A 1-0 Rapids road win that put Mastroeni face-to-face with former RSL owner Dave Checketts.

“We were playing at Rice-Eccles [Stadium], I think it was 2006, and I was just getting crushed by the fans. And it got a little edgy with some of the stuff that they were sayi

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