Last Friday I was able to snag a few tickets to the Western Conference Championship game between the LA Galaxy and the Houston Dynamo. Houston defeated my second favorite MLS team, the Seattle Sounders in the first round (I was hoping for a LA v. Seattle match up) and headed to Home Depot Center in an epic battle with the Galaxy.
Now for the record I'm not a die hard MLS fan, I'm more of a casual fan. I could tell you about a few players, name some of the teams, and even tell you some of the history of the Galaxy, but that's about it. My knowledge of Soccer is also rudimentary, but I know enough to stand for 90 minutes, when a player is offsides, when there should be a penalty kick, the game is more important then a beer run, and when the supporter section is rocking, dive in...so that's what I did on Friday. It also helps that I learned alot of this in the student section at a Soccer match in Salzburg, Austria.
I stood with the Angel City Brigade.
That's right, during the game we had two power outages. As David Beckham joked in the locker room afterward, us Americans were always trying to get four quarters in Football. The game also nearly caused me to have a nervous breakdown, see I bought tickets for the MLS Cup a half hour before the game not knowing if the Galaxy were going to make it or not. With it being Friday the 13th, I thought what the heck, roll the dice and let's see what happens. For all I know I could have been going to Seattle to see Chicago and Houston (Shudders...)
Stay tuned to the MDLU as I'll try my best to provide updates via twitter and qik of the MLS Cup live from Seattle.
