The biggest broadcast weekend in American soccer history features the biggest rivalry in US soccer, and the only rivalry that deserves mention with the greatest derbies in the world. Sunday’s match is not just about a feeling “deeper than hate.” The two teams are the best in the West since 2014. The last time Seattle Sounders or Portland Timbers didn’t make a Concacaf Champions League appearance was 2013. One of the two have been in MLS Cup from 2015 to the present.
With ABC taking this as their second match of a broadcast double-header, the eyes of the nation will be on the forever surging Sounders and the late-starting Timbers.