For players, an MLS offseason often brings with it a welcome period of downtime spent on reflection, family, and engaging in interests outside the game. For staff, it’s a time to take stock of lessons learned from the prior season’s successes and failures, as well as a chance enjoy a holiday lull.
For longtime Chicago Fire broadcaster and Fire Weekly host Fred Huebner, this was not the case.
“I had surgery in November to have my spleen removed,” he said. “My spleen was five times the size of an average spleen. They had to take part of my stomach out with it – just a small part – because the spleen was stuck to my stomach.