Sometimes a community is blessed with a local owner, or an out-of-towner, who truly loves them. They don’t just spend the money, but they live the culture that is captured when sports and cities connect. Seattle has been blessed with that at various times. With the Seattle Sounders both Joe Roth and Adrian Hanauer do this fairly well. The opposite end of this spectrum is something we are too familiar with — the Seattle SuperSonics’ situation.
Now, in MLS that sports travesty seems ready to be repeated. Anthony Precourt held clandestine meetings to get the Columbus Crew SC to Austin.