My New Discernment for the Seattle Sounders FC

Three months later and I still hear people mention, "the post". I am here to tell everyone I regret what I wrote, and I apologize if I offended anyone. Frankly, my eyes have been opened after the first couple games, and I am actually enjoying watching the Sounders.

I'm not super educated on soccer, and I don't understand advanced strategy but watching it is way more exciting than I first presumed.

It's fun to watch the players move the ball around so fluidly. The game is also surprisingly physical. The players do complain and whine a lot, but is that really all that different from any other sport?

Okay, I admit it. I am a giant hypocrite. The other day, someone in my family was trying to start a conversation with me, and I said, "Wait, I want to watch this free kick". That is when I realized that the words I said in January were pointless and dumb. It takes some getting used to, but soccer is a nice change of pace as opposed to watching "the big three" (basketball, baseball, football).

It doesn’t hurt when the Sounders are a winning team either. I had no idea of how good this team was going to be going in. Any expansion team in any sport has a rough first season, usually. The Sounders have asserted themselves as the top team in the MLS.

I'd like to eventually go to a match, but each match has been sold-out, if I'm not mistaken. I'm waiting on one of my many soccer friends to take me to a game...hopefully.

I can understand if you can't forgive me for those words back January. But I am going to admit that I will not be committing myself to learn the technical aspects of the game of soccer, and generally I am also not necessarily crazy for the Sounders or anything.

But I do regret what I said back then.

The only appropriate way to end this article is to say this: The Sounders are relevant.