The Exigent Duality
MLS - 07:05 CST, 8/20/16 (Sniper)
Don Garber: "...as everyone worked together-- the public sector, private businesses, and all of you..." That is literally the definition of Fascism.

That aside, it will be kind of surreal not having to manually create Thunder / NSC Minnesota / Stars / United in Pro Evo; all I need to do is wait for the annual and inevitable, professional-quality MLS mod, and viola!

Also, people from outside of Minnesota don't understand how much sense the "United" monikor makes; the two cities, plus the crazy rollercoaster-- which I personally lived-- of all of the various club iterations and the drama-- an attempt to unify all of those fan bases.

And on that note, this article was written just for me. I started with Thunder season tickets in 2007, and I've adamantly followed basically every match the various clubs have played ever since.

About the "jarring transition" the author mentions for long-time supporters: I remember one rainy Open Cup match where Ellyn and I were two of about thirty fans in the entire stadium, waiting for Melvin Tarley or Ricardo Sanchez to knick a goal for the team. One of the rain coat-donning front office people must have felt bad, and walked around and handed free seat cushions to all three dozen of us.

Now, MLS is another story: I very, very closely followed the league from maybe 2002 to 2009, and have watched maybe two matches since (ditto for the English Premier League, incidentally). I need to get caught up.