Five years ago, the Philadelphia Union played a two-leg playoff series against the Houston Dynamo. It was Houston’s first season in the Eastern Conference, realigned due to the integration of Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps. The postseason format was different in that season than it is now. Each conference had nine teams, the top five of which qualified. The Union had the Eastern Conference’s third-best record with 48 points, meaning that they avoided the play-in wild card game between the fourth and fifth seeds. The winner of that played the top seed. For finishing third, the Union had to face the second seed.
That Old, Not-Familiar-Enough Feeling
