Pre-match: The Fire are NOT Back! Postponed! Fire v. Vancouver Battle of the Bayern Munich Guys?

Sooo, we can watch the program about the Sting on WGN at 9:00 afterall.



(After Orange Ones address to the nation about the state of election "security" at 8:00.)

 

If you're looking for an option to learning all about "election security" there are 3 MLS derbies tonight.
Toronto @ Montreal - 6:30
Sporks @ stlouisvillage - 7:30
Portland @ Seattle - 9:30

 

I voted on that but not "There WILL be blood" because well... :-(

 

This game got moved to an international window when Lewy will be missing. How stupid is this team?

 

"because of bears and concert" contention
New pitch can't come soon enough

 

Air quality at what would have been kickoff for the Chicago Fire and Vancouver Whitecaps : https://t.co/EHoCpOWGV5 says AQI is 669.

That far exceeds 200 level USSF recommends as the line for cancel/postponing the match.

Clearly, moving the game to October was the right call pic.twitter.com/yqZkmFzyHu

— Tim Hotze (@sing_electric) July 17, 2026

 

Not saying it was a bad decision, but it was a major disappointment.

 

Absolutely, it's a huge bummer. Really shitty luck.

 

This isn’t a big deal to me, the dude arrived less than 48 hours ago, jet lag, shitty air, this gives him a week to acclimate with the time change and weather and gel with the team a bit

 

I could not agree more. I think it's a big ask for him to fly in and play in a meaningful match 2 days later.

 

Did the smoke haze would impact visibility of the introduction fireworks for Bob?

 

We were going to face a Vancouver team that was missing lots of players, including Berhalter. Now we will have to face a full squad while missing our #1 striker. Also, if Cuypers keeps scoring Belgium might want to test him in Nations League. It's a big deal for seeding at the end of the year.

 

It really did crap on our parade…
Beating Vancouver yesterday would have put wind in our sails.

 

I suppose we could say the fire ********ed things up again…

 

No proof of that (yet), in that the new date was likely not totally the Fire's to choose.
Layer our schedule, Vancouver's, Bears, Concerts, Leagues Cup, etc...and tell everyone the new date within hours!

 

A token appearance would have been nice and likely was the plan.

 

Fixed

 

You missed the joke…

 

Those pesky wild fires.

 

Capitalization of Fire flew it over my head...