How evolving Covid-19 guidelines could affect Sounders attendance

Photo by Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesAlthough Covid-19 numbers remains stubbornly high in King County — raising the prospect that we could backslide into the more restrictive Phase 2 of the reopening process — recent comments by Gov. Jay Inslee suggest seating capacity for the Seattle Sounders is more likely to expand than contract in the near future.

Even if King County is moved into Phase 2, the state has already granted a waiver for professional outdoor sporting events that would allow them to maintain current capacity:

“Professional sporting activities, higher education and college sporting activities, major junior hockey, and part-time professional sporting activities…