Match Thread - MLS CUP FINAL - TORONTO FC VS. SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC - DECEMBER 9, 2017 (R)

I was “around” for all of that...never really crossed my mind till I read your post.

Last year’s loss is clearly relevant but the Soccer Bowl stuff seems, to me, stuff from the distant past of another life I led.

 

I was only 6, didn't really know, but remember watching Soccerbowl in '81 without the Blizzard from Toronto Ex. Stadium, and remember the Blizzard losing in 83. This just adds to the rich but small history of soccer in this city....but nothing like the last 11 years as this city has totally embraced TFC culminating in this win. Lets hope for many more.

 

congrats, Toronto from a RSL fan

 

Wow. Still speechless. Was there from season one when we all threw our seat cushions when Dichio scored....but Altidore's goal yesterday...still reliving that moment. All those years of mediocrity came down to this finally. Well done.

 

I was around but would have had to have been watching from my crib.

That said, I do recall going to many Blizzard games at Etobicoke Centennial Stadium with 2999 other fans back in the CSL days. To see 30 000+ at the stadium and to see where soccer is now in Toronto, and in Canada in general, is amazing.

 

Y'all could have followed the MLS Cup final @ bbc.com....this is what you would have read....a full match treatment like they do for matches over there:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/live/football/42282192

 

At this point it falls under the "doesn't really matter" category, but in what world was that 89th minute body check against Giovinco not a penalty?

 

its nice that we could forget about that play right? lol

 

Great to witness what was a amazing season come to a great end winning MLS Cup and completing the treble. From watching this club from the start going through the pains of rotation of coaches and players to now makes it a little extra special to celebrate. I am looking forward to see what we can put forward next year in terms of repeating and like many with addition of extra money see if we can build a squad capable of pushing for the CCL.

 

Is there anywhere that I can get the audio for the TSN commentary or a video of the game from TSN?

 

Oh this is just brilliant...

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/footballdo..._seattle_sounders_mls_final_12092017/dr0nfzf/

 

Just clicked on one of the links in that page and got an alert on my phone about a virus....I hope my phone is ok but thought i’d let y’all know.

 

It's fine. I never dl anything on my phone due to lacking anti-virus programs. Much more robust protection on your computer. I barely noticed any issue outside of the massive size that they stored the match at. 1G would be more than sufficient for HD but this match had to be split into 6 pieces due to a near 5G size! Is this in 3D? Still the parts that I've seen look very good although I may shrink it down for myself and merge the parts. Big thanks to EvilTree. I've always loved to hear TSN coverage of MLS matches and it would have been a shame if I couldn't have their record of TFC's first MLS cup. I don't support any particular MLS side so much as the league as a whole, but TFC was the team who's video supporter videos back in it's first year were what got me to start watching the league regularly. Before that I'd probably watched as many matches as I could count on one and a half hands. If I could ever claim to support any team TFC is as close as it gets, (which is rough bc the Cascadia teams are right after them). Plus I'm from Bufallo NY. Toronto is one of the first city along with NYC that I remember actually visiting as a kid.

Congrats to you guys!!

 

There's a smaller file (3GB, mkv format) floating around. It's on a private torrent site so I am not sure if I should post it here. Let me know if it's ok to do so or if anyone needs me to pm the info. (The one on reddit has better quality and complete pregame. Totally worth the time downloading.) I'm actually interested in finding one with ESPN's audio. Those buffoons and their melodrama are entertaining in a train wreck kind of way.

 

It's okay. I ended up merging them into two halves and uploaded them to my OneDrive to view on my X-Box One. There's an ad in there somewhere... (actually, I'm in the process of merging the first half and the second half is busy uploading to my OneDrive as I write this... both are well along in the process.)

Anyway, I'm not even going to bother making the file smaller for now. If I find the smaller version, I might end up getting the smaller version just for comparison, but I'm fine with this one. Quality is very good, but I wonder if a lower quality file would even be noticeable on only a 720p tv set... Probably not, much of it's quality is already lost when I play it on my tv. However I always have to be careful when I reduce quality bc done wrong it can end up looking like a pixelated mess if the conversion doesn't want to work properly. Unless my OneDrive starts running low on space (i've created my own personal Hulu/Netflix on there with movies, tv shows and sports that aren't on existing streaming sites) it may not make sense to bother with it. It's only half full at the moment and it took a lot of files to get this big. I may end up looking into purchasing more space when the time comes anyway. Besides which, I'd have to convert that file to mp4 since anying that can stream on OneDrive or anything else worthwhile still does not read mkv. Probably about the same amount of work just to make a smaller version of the file that I have in the same codec. But thanks for the info!

 

Congrats on the Triple! An impressive accomplishment!