Playoffs? You’re Talking About Playoffs?
The Los Angeles Sol have clinched the regular-season title in the inaugural season of Women’s Professional Soccer and they’ll host the championship game on Saturday, August 22. They’ll have just over three weeks to sell tickets to the final (tickets aren’t even on sale until July 29 - I guess they either figured “Why give ourselves as much time as possible?” or the fact they were going to clinch here sometime soon snuck up on them, seeing as how they were only 11 points clear of everybody else going into last night’s 0-0 draw with FC Gold Pride).
Nobody else is officially out of the running for the four-team playoffs just yet, though Chicago and FC Gold Pride could be eliminated this weekend and St. Saint Louis and Boston could clinch spots.
This part of the story on WPS’ website did make me laugh, though:
With one of the most dominant regular season performances for any professional sports team, no less a first-year team in a new league, the Los Angeles Sol captured the WPS Regular Season title on Thursday evening with a 0-0 draw against FC Gold Pride at Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
The Sol are 11-2-5 at this writing and have outscored their opponents 24-6. That’s certainly dominant. Just not “one of the most dominant regular season performances for any professional sports team.” The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the Yankees of 1927 and 1998, the 1948 Cleveland Browns, 2007 New England Patriots (do you see what I’m getting at?) are on line two, better pick up.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Good list. What about the ‘85 Chicago Bears? I am a Redskins fan but that Bears team was amazing.
Plus, as the release notes, it was the inaugural season. Usually, one team does dominate and one team does horribly.