The very first game seems like a natural fit for a list of top moments. What’s a bigger moment than existing? It’s why we celebrate birthdays every year.
I was one of the 25,266 in attendance at Ohio Stadium that night. How amazing it felt to see that many people turn out for a soccer game. It was the largest-attended soccer game I had been to in my life to that point.
But while it was great to have a team and a league, and while it was great to have it be a real thing being played on (a smallish patch of) real grass right before my very eyes, the thing that locks down the inaugural game for me was the legendary Bo Oshoniyi to Brian McBride goal, where the only time the ball touched the field was the bounce it took just before crossing the goal line. With that goal, McBride’s star was born.
What a moment:
“It was a memorable night," Lamar Hunt told the Columbus Dispatch after the game. “I don't know if I've ever been involved in anything that had a more exciting start in my life. It was just bedlam out here. Heck, the crowd was going for blood at the end. They wanted more goals.”
