A proclamation congratulating the Denver Outlaws for their victory in winning the 2014 Major League Lacrosse (MLL) Championship. A proclamation congratulating the Denver Outlaws for its victory in winning the 2014 Major League Lacrosse (MLL) Championship. 
Communications. Madam Secretary, do we have any communications? None, Mr. President. Proclamations. We do have two proclamations this evening, and I'm going to start off with Proclamation 763 congratulating the Denver outlaws for their victory and winning the 2014 Major League Lacrosse, also known as the MLS Championship. And I will read Proclamation 763. WHEREAS, The Denver Outlaws kicked off their inaugural season on May 28, 2006 at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium, and are an organization committed to not only winning Major League lacrosse championships, but to growing new lacrosse fans and to making a positive impact on Denver communities. And. Whereas, since their inaugural season, the Outlaws are the only MLS L franchise to make the playoffs each consecutive season since their existence, and they continue to set new lacrosse records, attendance records at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. And. WHEREAS, on October 23rd, 2014, the Denver Outlaws outscore the Rochester Rattlers in a thrilling fourth quarter, win 12 to 11 to capture the franchise's first MLS championship and to receive the Steinfeld trophy. And. Whereas it was a team victory, John Grand Jr was named Coca-Cola Championship Finals MVP for his three goal four point performance that night , and Chris Brocklin made mellow history by making a goal 19 seconds into the game, the fastest goal in MLB history since 2005. And. WHEREAS, Head Coach B.J. O'Hara acknowledges that the team has been playing extremely well and finishing high in the standings since 2006, the team just gets better and better as they work together on offense and defense, a testament to their team commitment. Now therefore be a proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver, Section one that the Denver City Council congratulates. Pat Bowlen, owner of the Denver Outlaws, head coach BJ O'Hara, and the entire Denver Outlaws team and staff for an incredible 2014 lacrosse season and for capturing the 2014 MLS Championship and Steinfeld trophy next year. Denver will be looking to the black silver and orange team to bring back a repeat of 2014 and Section two that the clerk of the city and county of Denver shall test in affix fix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation, and that a copy be transmitted to the Denver Outlaws franchise. So my motion to adopt this proclamation 763 be adopted. It has been moved in. Second, in comments from members of Council, I will start growing up in Kansas City, Missouri. Lacrosse was not a big sport, so it's not something that I became a fan of until my time at Army, where Army was big into lacrosse, and since graduating, the Army has continually done well at lacrosse. So it's been something that I have been paying attention to, and it was just exciting to hear about the Denver Outlaws and their success. So after winning their trophy, the championship last year, I was very excited to have the opportunity to bring forward a proclamation and get to meet some of the players and hold the Steinfeld trophy. It's heavy, but I'm sure they don't realize it when you're carrying it because you worked very hard to capture that. So best of luck. Honored to have you all here for this moment. We can recognize you as counsel. You deserve a parade, but hopefully you'll accept the proclamation because that's what I could do for you. Any other comments from members of council? Kathryn Lopez. Comment. Congratulations. I think a lot I think a lot of folks don't realize that the sport of lacrosse has been here before any other sport. This is something that is a Native American sport. This is something that, you know, I think one of the. The oldest sports. Yes, continent. And today it's still played. And I'm glad that here in Denver, we're bringing at least one championship home. And I could be I could proudly say that, you know, we have the outlaws. And, you know what what I really, really like is the work that you guys do in the community, the work that you guys engage with young people. I think supporting the programs for young people to become involved in this sport is big. It's a fun sport and is really hard and it plays pretty rough. So, you know, I in college I was messing around. I played with the intramural sports team at Metro, the girls team, and they whipped my butt. And I never realized how hard this game really was, the sport really was. So I have a lot of a lot of respect for that and hopefully we have a growing fan base and I start packing the stadium a lot more than what we see it because it's already packed, but one day we're going to fill every seat in that place. Thank you, government. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Councilwoman Ortega. Mr. President, thank you for bringing this forward. I'd like to ask that my name be added. It was just about a month ago, I believe, that we had the lacrosse tournaments in Culver City, and I had an opportunity to go out to a breakfast that was held during the same time with our our counterparts from Adams County . And to see how many young people that we had there playing in those fields was just amazing. I mean, we had people here from from different countries, and the crowd that it brought out was just incredible. So I just want to say congratulations as well. And thank you for bringing this forward. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilwoman Robb. Well, as many of my colleagues know, I'm not that world's biggest sports fan. But I do want to say that I have two wooden and leather lacrosse sticks at home in my basement that are older than Councilwoman Sussman sweaters. And my husband played lacrosse in college in the East. I want to recognize what a victory it is to win over Rochester, because even though we all know the folks have been playing lacrosse in Colorado for a long time and it's a very popular sport here, a lot of people still see it as an eastern sport. So any chance we can get to claim it is great? And speaking of that, I don't know how many folks are aware of the fact that the NCAA college championships in lacrosse will be in Denver next May. Big win for Denver to have them here. And I'll be great sports fan time. Thank you, Councilwoman Robb. Are there any other comments from members of the council saying none. Madam Secretary, roll call. Mr. President. I. Can eat lemon Lopez. All right. Montero. Nevitt. Hi, Ortega. I'm Rob Shepherd. I Susman. Brooks Brown. I thought. I. Councilman Brown, you're voting. There we go. Madam Secretary, please close the door and announce the results. 3939 763 has been adopted and we have several members from the Denver Outlaws. So we'd love to have you all come up, introduce yourselves and accept a proclamation at the podium. It got the word. Oh, my God. That. I'd like to say I'd like to thank the city council. It is a tremendous honor if we've got Matt Lockwood here. Jeremy Sieverts, Don Roy and myself, Lee. Zink, all players here. For the Outlaws. You know, we worked really hard this season. It's been nine seasons for some of us here with the Denver Outlaws. And this is just such an honor. And and thank you for recognizing for lacrosse. And and this. Championship. It's great. All right. Thank you. Awesome. Yeah. All right. We are now ready for proclamation. Seven 4745 and Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. Proclamation 14 0745 is in support of the mile high behavioral health care and its miracle on Logan Street. Whereas, since 1960, mile high behavioral health care has been providing Coloradoans an accessible substance use disorder and mental health treatment.