While certain events in the political realm may have made yesterday feel a bit like 2016 for some, the Philadelphia Union team that throttled Minnesota United on Saturday night in Chester was nothing like the last team to clinch a playoff berth.
That team from 2016 lost all three of its games in October after a winless September and only made it in because they had a better goal differential than New England after finishing the season tied on 42 points.
The 2018 playoff-bound Union passed 42 points three and a half weeks ago with a dramatic stoppage time winner in Seattle and has lost only twice in league play since the beginning of August.