The “Miracle on Ice,” Michael Jordan’s flu game, Leicester City winning the English Premier League, Lebron James returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers and ending a 52-year championship drought. These are some of the all-time greatest sports stories. But another chapter was written in an ongoing story that, to those in Columbus, Ohio, is the greatest sports story in history.
On Sunday evening, the Crew won the Major League Soccer Eastern Conference title, defeating the New England Revolution 1-0 in a cold MAPFRE Stadium. This meant that the Black & Gold will host the MLS Cup Final for only the second time in the 21-year history of America’s first soccer specific stadium, a stadium that in less than a year, will be home to the team’s training facility as its new crowned jewel opens in the heart of Columbus.