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Oct 6, 2009 7:54 pm US/Mountain

ESPN's Rick Reilly Licks Capitol Dome, Eats Crow

Reporting
Terry Jessup
DENVER (CBS4) ― A prominent sports columnist had to pay the price for bad-mouthing the Colorado Rockies earlier this season.

ESPN's Rick Reilly promised to lick the Capitol dome if the Rockies made the post season and on Tuesday he made good on that promise.

"It's never failed me before, the old tongue-bathe joke," Reilly said.

It seemed like a good bet back in April -- the Rockies in the playoffs?

"They got rid of their best player in Matt Holiday. They had a bunch of guys with noodle-arms, I thought, starting the season," Reilly said. "I was right for a while, I mean; they were 12 games under .500 on what, May 12?"

Boulder's own nationally-famous sportswriter is now "Rick the Lick" Reilly after he was led by Gov. Bill Ritter and Mayor John Hickenlooper to the top of the Capitol where he honored his pledge to lick-bathe the dome if the Rockies made the post-season -- a bet he first made on KOA radio, which did play-by-play of the licking.

"My wife said, 'Kiss me now, because it's going to be months before I kiss you again,'" Reilly said. "There'll be no future bets, but I tell you what, if the Broncos make the playoffs, I'll tongue-bathe, I don't know, my spoon; I'm never saying this crap again."

Now that's he's tasted gold leaf along with crow, Reilly is still shaking his head and finding it all hard to swallow.

"I can't believe how often they won. They won when they didn't make catches; this team you've got to admit has a leprechaun up their sleeve or something. They win when they don't touch the plate, they win constantly."

Reilly said he's predicting the Rockies win everything now.

Before his act of contrition, Reilly asked the governor if the Capitol dome tasted like "pork."

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