Tim Howard will hang up his gloves, well worn from thousands of saves throughout the years, whenever the Colorado Rapids' 2019 season ends. Dismounting from one of the most successful professional soccer careers of his American generation, he'll enter a new existence.
Howard would have to reach far back in the recesses of his memory to call upon a year that didn't revolve around the beautiful game, having signed with the North Jersey Imperials in 1997 before making his MLS debut with the MetroStars in 1998. More than two decades later, there is an end date in sight for a kid from North Brunswick, New Jersey.