Originally Posted by
ensco
Time seemed to stand still at key moments last night.
Altidore’s shot moving through the air. That split second when you realized he’d done it. It was slow motion, to me. OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. I was haunted by the Frei stop on Altidore in extra time last year, I kept thinking about it in the off season. Now I will see Altidore’s shot flying through the air on its way to glory. Forever.
Late game heart failure. Giovinco lying there while Seattle attacked in the 90th minute. I love Gio, I know he had cramps, but, WTF? GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP ……Then Armando Cooper hitting the goal post. He made such a beautiful play to round the keeper, how could he not score. Another split second: this is the only moment when my faith actually might be wavering, I cannot believe what I am seeing, this is some kind of ludicrous cosmic setup for a late game ….before I can finish the thought, in the blink of an eye, the carom has hit Vazquez and he had bundled it in.
Of course there are other blink of and eye moments – Altidore was thisclose to being offside (he did a nifty zigzag to stay onside, but boy that was close). How did Kamara miss last week? It all seems so inevitable now, but God, it’s so easy to fall on the wrong side of a blink of the eye.
Frei is Nemesis. We finally got to him, but, holy crap, what a display.
Oso, as many others have pointed out, so glad that a Canadian was such a major piece of something like this.
Bradley played maybe the greatest game I have ever seen any MLS player play. He was unbeatable, broke up numerous moves forward, bailed out defenders on the counter in big moments at least twice. Just wow. He was probably the MVP, not Jozy, but really who cares? It's not like we'd be here without either one.
I think there were two Sounders fans earnestly shaking everyone’s hands at the northeast exit postgame, saying “Congratulations. You guys are the best team in MLS history. “ Was I dreaming that? That seemed surreal.
It bugs me that Garber gave the Cup to Larry Tanenbaum. Sorry. That’s not right.
I love these cold weather games. Feels like big games in Europe.
The tickets turned out to be cheap at the price.
A question: what am I supposed to do now? Our team had the best record in league history, won the treble, finished with three straight clean sheets, and scored beautiful, elegant goals to do it.
Now What?