Certain days can define you. They can be moments you remember as successes or failures for life. It is on these days, when the pressure is grandest, that our friends, our family, our communities are the most necessary. It is on days like today when their voices can power us beyond what we know we can do.
Today is one of those days. There are nearly 800 traveling down to Portland to support the Seattle Sounders in their quest to continue their miracle run. A few hundred more live down there and filter into the stands on matchday.