On June 1st, 1813, US Navy Captain James Lawrence was mortally wounded in a naval battle (one that he shouldn’t have gotten into, but that’s for history majors). His dying words to his men had something to the effect of, “don’t give up the ship.” A couple months later on September 10th, the legendary Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry had those words flying high on his flag as he went into the Battle of Lake Erie.
What does this mean to the Fire? A lot.
We didn’t get that first round bye and I don’t really want to get into that game on Sunday, but we did get a home game in the knockout round.