Throughout Jim Curtin’s two-year tenure, the head coach has seen his fair share of triumphs and heartbreaks in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup alone. Fact is, in the 12 knockout-competition matches he’s been at the helm for, practically all of them have been of the heart-palpitating variety, unintentionally taking years off all of our lives.
Or they’ve just been downright different.
In that group of 12 games, the only game that wasn’t decided by either one goal or beyond regulation time was the 2014 quarterfinal, where the Union defeated – yes, you guessed it – New England Revolution.