To explain my Philadelphia Union fandom, I need to first rewind the clock to October 17, 1998.
I was a sophomore at Lebanon Valley College at the time, spending my fall semester in London, when my theater professor invited me to go to a soccer game. I knew a little about soccer at the time - and had played for my local club in South Jersey - but when I walked off the tube stop at Highbury I was transformed into a magical world of sport I had never experienced at any of the hundreds of baseball games I had attended as a kid.