Last game of 2021: Portland, in a downpour. First game of 2022: Portland, in a downpour. Build a dome, fellas.
…aaaand Portland wins. Because you NEVER, in ANY sport, give up the game-tie-er that late and win in overtime. Ever. Ever, ever, EVER....
I’d rather they played in, say, the Rose Bowl in front of 50K+…which they actually did a quarter-century ago.
It looks fine; for one thing, it’s 20 degrees warmer and not raining. (Also, football looks better in bad weather than soccer does.)
Sure. But they look better on TV, and MLS needs decent TV ratings if they’re gonna generate the big money like the big European leagues do.
Put MLS on ignore, champ. They’re the ones who decided to play their premiere event in a terrible time slot in terrible weather.
As a (transplanted) New Yorker, I can tell you everyone in the NYC area is watching Army-Navy. And it’s just depressing as hell to watch a game...
This "nine-point week" is getting less likely by the minute.
They gave up only one goal in the whole tournament...to Martinique!
THIS IS OURS!
When LA/SF look down on SJ, the only other city to kick around is Sacramento. Who does Sacramento kick around? Stockton? Vacaville? Yuba City...?!
There will be a time in the future when the amount of money made by the MLS Playoffs (and seen in their current playoffs for promotion/relegation)...
For the record, Toronto is one of few teams I actually root for, since I spent a lot of time there as a kid (I grew up in Michigan). But...
This is what happens when you let everybody and their brother into a single-elimination playoff: you wind up with two unattractive, small-market...
I think a 1986 WC in the USA might have set the sport back a decade or so. I get what you're saying, but it's hard to imagine American pro soccer...
