June 16, 2015 is a date that will always bear special significance to Seattle Sounders fans, and to a lesser degree those of the Portland Timbers. That was the Cascadia rivals faced off at Starfire Soccer Stadium in a U.S. Open Cup match. More relevantly, it was the day Clint Dempsey lost his mind, the Sounders finished the match with just seven players on the pitch and the Timbers became the first road team to win a competitive match against the Sounders at Starfire.
We teamed up with Chris Rifer of Soccer Made in Portland and Stumptown Footy and FourFourTwo’s Richard Farley to tell the story of this fateful day through the people who experienced it first hand.