I'd agree with you on this one. Should have been wearing an Alecko shirt. My gosh, if my kid were in the final, you better believe I'd be wearing his shirt. Look at all the NFL players, their moms and dads wear their kid's shirt. Think Freddy's mom was wearing an AC Milan shirt? I highly doubt it.
I think if my kid was in the MLS Cup final, but I didn't really support his team, I'd just wear civilian clothes (no team gear whatsoever). Optionally, Esky could've broken out the throwback Cosmos gear.
Just passing along that Richard Snowden over at soccer365.com made the same point I did about the limits of the neutral sites for the MLL Cup. "THUMBS DOWN: MLS honchos continue to cling to the notion that staging MLS Cup matches in neutral venues is a good idea. The league's failure to move a mere 27,000 tickets for its annual marquee event proves yet again that it is not. Worse yet, despite the best efforts of the handful of traveling D.C. and Wizards supporters, the match was largely devoid of a passionate atmosphere, which never helps on national TV. "The solution to this problem is quite simple: stage MLS Cup at the home venue of the higher-seeded finalist. Not only would this format guarantee a large, passionate crowd for every MLS Cup final, it would also provide additional incentive for teams to finish as high in the regular-season standings as possible. And as we have seen, MLS teams need all the incentive possible to help make the regular season more interesting. "It's time for MLS to realize that emulating the NFL approach is just not going to work well. By now, it's quite clear that neutral championship venues rarely (at best) achieve the desired results. The NFL can get away with such things because it has more fans than Led Zeppelin. MLS, on the other hand, needs to be realistic and do all it can to maximize fans' passion and interest" Needless to say, I agree 100%