Another step in the endless process of soccer conquering the US. Around here the main coverage angle was will we end the local title drought, going back to the Giants in 2012? Well, if one of our baseball, football, basketball, probably even hockey teams won the title, you'd hear fireworks and people in the streets. MLS; not so much. It's a bigger deal if some immigrant community's home team wins a World Cup game.

not doubting that was the local angle because i caught a whiff of it on reddit but curious what your source was.

i did read this past week that soccer has passed hockey as the fourth most popular spectator sport in america but i assume that is based on viewing habits primarily of world soccer and not mls driven. still, average attendance for the nhl is about 17500 while in probably half the games per season the mls pre-covid was over 21000 in admittedly larger venues.