Post-career Pontifications: On Clint Dempsey

When I think about Clint Dempsey’s six seasons with the Seattle Sounders, I do so with somewhat wistfully. There’s a part of me that feels inexplicably lucky. Dempsey was easily the most famous player, at the thing closest to his peak stardom, that I ever had a chance to cover on a regular basis. Even more than Obafemi Martins, he was the player who most often did something so unbelievable that I would react more like a fan than a reporter (which got me in trouble more than once in the press box).

But there’s another part of me that’s a bit sanguine. Again, even more than Martins, no player who ever spent time here was more closed off with the press. As a result, I don’t feel like I ever…