Nearly two years since the last Sons of Ben road trip to Red Bull Arena, the fact that some 50 fans who had made the trip last week were stuck on the bus waiting through a weather delay was perhaps the perfect harbinger of the game they were about to witness.
It was messy, it was back and forth and it was plenty chippy but it was also the Philadelphia Union playing a close geographical rival and finding a way to claw their way to a 1-1 draw despite going down to 10 men in the 57th minute.