It was just over two months ago that the Columbus Crew were lifting MLS Cup after defeating LAFC. This filled me with so much joy because it gives me the opportunity to laugh at two entities:

Sadly, Papi and Orlando City are out. Not so sadly, Peter Vermes and Sporting Kansas City are also out.

If that was the last home of 2023, FCD provided the fans with some entertainment that wasn’t a drone show.

Ugh. I truly hate writing about Little Brother Orange these days, largely because they are committed to not giving me so much free material.

Oh, wait, you can totally count out the New York Red Bulls when it’s playoff time.

You, gentle reader, are quite likely an FCD fan and you, like me, might be tenting your fingers and thinking to yourself, “Hey, I wouldn’t mind Óscar’s triumphant return to Frisco.”

This is really the play-in round, but MLS calls it the “Wild Card” round, so sure, I’ll call it that. If the NCAA and their band of lawyers, who can only really enforce trademarks and screw college kids, didn’t exist, we could call it the “First Four,” but alas.

Thanks to Carlos Ruiz’s only 2016 goal in his only 2016 action for FCD the previous week against Seattle, FCD went into the final game of the season needing only not to lose and for the Rapids not to win in order to capture the Supporters Shield.