RSL celebrates MLS crown with a pair of rallies

SLIDESHOW: Real Salt lake Celebrates Their Victory

SANDY -- Real Salt Lake showed it knows how to win the big one on Sunday night.

Tuesday afternoon, the MLS soccer club's loyal fans showed they know how to party.

Real Salt Lake celebrated its Major League Soccer championship with lunch at the governor's mansion, a rally at the state Capitol and a motorcade to Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy.

Real Salt Lake stunned the Los Angeles Galaxy on Sunday, winning the league championship on penalty kicks in Seattle.

On Monday, RSL returned to Salt Lake City, where hundreds of fans greeted them at the airport. On Tuesday, the team ate with Gov. Gary Herbert and his wife before a rally outside the Capitol.

Herbert called it a great day for Utah and Utah sports.

In the afternoon, a motorcade slowly made its way 16 miles south to Rio Tinto Stadium, where RSL fans were treated to a highlights video, speeches from the players and coaches and more.

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