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Old 12-10-2016, 09:01 PM
 
Location: WA Desert, Seattle native
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In a wild penalty kick shootout, Seattle captures its first MLS Cup championship.

This marks the 6th professional championship for Seattle. WNBA (2), NFL (1), NBA (1), NHL (1)
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Old 12-10-2016, 09:40 PM
 
Location: Near Graham WA
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The ending was so wild ... I couldn't watch!
I watched 120 minutes of the match, but just couldn't bear the suspense at the end.
I knew they had won when I heard some kind of fireworks going off in the neighborhood.
Awesome end to the season!
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Old 12-10-2016, 10:54 PM
 
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I went to a game (vs NY) in July with their prior coach and they played not well.
Did their season turn around dramatically and how??
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Old 12-10-2016, 11:58 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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Roman Torres was a beast marking Altidore. If you understand strategy and positioning, that was a war. Frei-amazing in net. It wasn't pretty but we won!!!
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Old 12-11-2016, 12:00 AM
 
Location: Quincy, Mass. (near Boston)
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Congratulations.

I visited the Northwest in fall 2012 and went to games in Portland and Seattle (game in the Cascsdia Cup versus Portland at the big CenturyLink venue with a packed 69,000 fans).

The spirited fans at both venues made it an amazing professional sports memory.

Portland won last year, Seattle this year!

Now time to get an NBA team...and an NHL team, as I'm a hockey fan first.
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Old 12-11-2016, 02:36 AM
 
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This marks the 6th professional championship for Seattle. WNBA (2), NFL (1), NBA (1), NHL (1)


Uhhh, guess again.

Seattle has never even had an NHL team.

(everyone should know this by now)


(and of course only the Sonics and Seahawks' championships actually count for anything)


How embarrassing that a team which couldn't even win half of its regular season games even played in the post season, let alone was allowed to win anything.


Maybe the Mariners could win "championships" with such weak competition.
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Old 12-11-2016, 07:44 AM
 
Location: Seattle
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Mondo, bad timing. The Sounders won, coming back admirably from much adversity this year. You probably don't know this but the team lost two of its best players (Obafemi Martins and Clint Dempsey) but remarkably found a way to stay in the mix. Do you know about the exciting emergence of local boy Jordan Morris, his great goal scoring and him winning rookie of the year? Do you know about the amazing year of Nicholas Lodeiro, probably the best player in the league second half of the season? Do you know the Sounders had an amazing record in the second half of the year and survived a head coaching change too? By your logic, if the Seahawks (who I love) started a season 2-8, then magically turned it around 8-2 second half, limped into playoffs as a wild card then played their hearts out and won the Super Bowl, you would take their title away from them.

The players played yesterday at about 25 degrees F with a huge wind chill. Have you done that? Do you follow them? Have you been to a match? Did you see Stefan Frei's great saves in subzero temps? Did you see the way Roldan and Alonzo (with 8 pain injections at halftime for his wounded leg) broke up many dangerous attacks by Toronto's team? Did you appreciate the way that Roman Torres and Chad Marshall were huge at holding Toronto's world class forwards Giovinco and Altidore out of the net? Did you appreciate the need to be play a somewhat cautious defensive game against a hot team with dangerous strikers on their home field?

Yap some othef day but let us enjoy the win.

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Old 12-11-2016, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Alamogordo, NM
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Now time to get an NBA team...and an NHL team, as I'm a hockey fan first.

I can't wait for Seattle to get it's Sonic's back, but, wow, let Seattleite's enjoy the Sounder's MLS Championship celebration. I am not a soccer fan and probably never will be, but, I am a big Mariner's and Seahawk's fan, and I am constantly online following the plight of the Sonic's drive ta get their Sonic's back again.


I don't know if you'd call me a big M's fan, either, but I am a fan of them. But, since I love sports so much, even ping pong and tennis and shooting pool, and the Sounder's are a Seattle sports team, I say hoorah for them. This is so cool for Seattle!
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Old 12-11-2016, 10:34 AM
 
Location: WA Desert, Seattle native
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Uhhh, guess again.

Seattle has never even had an NHL team.

(everyone should know this by now)


(and of course only the Sonics and Seahawks' championships actually count for anything)


How embarrassing that a team which couldn't even win half of its regular season games even played in the post season, let alone was allowed to win anything.


Maybe the Mariners could win "championships" with such weak competition.
Yes, I was in error. Seattle has never had an NFL team.

Hower, instead of "everyone should know this by now", perhaps you could have correctly pointed out that Seattle's Pacific Coast Hockey Association team The Metropolitans beat Montreal in the 1917 Stanley Cup. Seattle was the first U.S. team to win The Stanley Cup.
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Old 12-11-2016, 10:52 AM
 
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The best part Portland is back to looking up at us again. Unlike them we just had a legit run and win of the MLS Cup and have also won the Open Cup repeatedly and Supporters Shield. Bow down to the Kings of MLS, The Seattle Sounders!
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