A regular season match that doesn’t matter is unfamiliar to the Seattle Sounders. Brian Schmetzer didn’t have one in the USL. In fact the last time the Sounders had final regular season match where they had already missed the playoffs was 1983.
I’m going to need a moment. ‘83 was a long time ago. There are members of the coaching staff that weren’t born yet.
Maybe with a history of success going that far back playing against the San Jose Earthquakes — another team that honors history — is good. There’s not really a rivalry between these teams.