Without A Paddle: Colorado Rapids vs Chicago Fire, MLS Week 16 Preview

It’s really hard to draw lines in the sand in Major League Soccer. Until September and October rolls around and teams fall out of contention by simple mathematics, it’s hard to definitively say that any given team must have X number of wins by Y date in order to ensure Z outcome. One of the best, and worst, things about MLS is that you’re never really out of playoff contention until pretty late in the season.

All that said, tonight feels like a bit of a Shit Or Get Off The Pot game for the Chicago Fire. Travel and high elevation aside, the Men In Red must see tonight’s clash with the Colorado Rapids, one of a vanishingly small number of teams in the league that are objectively worse than…