Denver, CO - Major League Soccer (MLS) side Colorado Rapids indicated that after suffering a number of COVID related positive tests among their team and their coaching staff that they would be forced to field a starting 11 that consisted of plague carrying prairie dogs for their upcoming games.

“The league will not let us forfeit so instead we are going to put out a lineup that will allow us to play the next few games while our staff and players are in quarantine,” stated one anonymous front office source. “It’s only the fleas that have the plague so it’ll be fine.”

Sources indicate that the team considered postponing the game only to have the league demand that the Rapids play.

“The show must go on, even if the back four are going to be looking to burrow under the field instead of pass the ball across it,” stated Don Garber.

For their part, the Rapids training staff is attempting to zoom coach the new signings into a narrow 4-2-3-1 as they attempted to give instruction on what to do with the ball.

The Nutmeg News will have more on this as the Prairie Dogs complain about the artificial grass in Portland and their inability to build a burrow below the field.