Another MLS Near Miss for Chicago Fire, The Match is the Metaphor 1
Posted on
November 15, 2009 by
John Wingspread Howell
The Chicago Fire lost to Real Salt Lake in a shootout.
Bridgeview, IL November 14, 2009 – You can sum up the Chicago Fire’s season in this one game. You can sum up the team’s history, excluding year one, in this one game. The summary is this: outstanding defense, underachieving offense, overall game domination, tantalizing fans by getting within reach of greatness only to find a way, sooner or later, to betray them– and themselves.
After win streaks and losing streaks, the usual Fire roller-coaster ride throughout the season, this season looked as if it might
be different, as if whatever curse constrains Chicago might have been broken. After all, they beat the Revolution for a change, and found themselves playing in a Conference final.