While the heavy presumption is that people who love sports also crave drama - the idea being that we want a season of our favorite team to be heavily-plotted, with lots of twists and turns - spare a thought for those of us for whom a game like Saturday’s is a soothing balm. The Fire smothered DC United 1-0 this evening, just sort of established a basic rhythm of dominance and rode it, unaltered, to the first road win of the season.
What it lacked in drama it more than made up for in reassurance for Fire supporters.