Real Salt Lake heading to Seattle (or MLS Cup, here we come)

So now there will be fans coming out of the woodwork to jump on the RSL bandwagon, which is OK but if you want to know a real fan all you have to do is ask them the magic question. What is the magic question? Whenever you are in doubt about a fan of a team ask them to name more than 5 players from the team, if they can they probably have been a fan for some time. I used this earlier this year in Seattle and it won me a number of free drinks, but like their fans at the start of the year any of the come lately fans are welcome with a bit of hazing. I am sure the number of RSL fans in Seattle will be much larger than the group that showed up for the first match of the RSL season:

So the question is will you be with us this time?

Everyone loves a winner and Real Salt Lake this year with their league best home record, incredible record tying home goal differential, and now the hottest team in MLS with a 4 match winning streak including road wins over the 2008 MLS Champions and 2009 Supporter Shield winner Columbus Crew and their shootout victory over the Chicago Fire, there is plenty of room on the RSL train for everyone. Now we face an interesting battle against the league darlings LA Galaxy, the glamour boys of MLS with Mr. Golden Balls, Landycakes, and their supporting cast. You have to wonder if the fans in Seattle will chose sides in this one, or will they simply show up? I am hoping they remember the first fans who came to their town with numbers (about a hundred of us) who were willing to drink with them, and BS about which team was better. I am hoping their players will remember the warm welcome they got during the MLS All Star match from the RSL fans, I would love to see them toss their support behind RSL for this match and help us cheer our team on to victory. While our fans might be relegated to the upper decks of Qwest Field next week, we will be there just like we were there 8 months ago as our season started.

So this is going to be a very crazy week for me, but here is the plan for the blog this week. Tuesday will be history lessons as we look back at the RSL vs. LA Galaxy matchups, some interesting things have happened between the two sides. I will also be heading out to RSL practice on Tuesday and should have some pictures and maybe even an interview or two for you. Wednesday will be a look at the MLS Cup and who knows what else. Thursday will probably be moving day for me and the blog, I have agreed to be the 3^rd MLS blog on sbnation.com and I hope we will have the new blog ready to go before I head out to Seattle on Friday morning. If the move happens this week I will be placing a link or autoforwarding this site to the new one, don’t worry I will make sure you can find me and the blog.

I will try to do a quick update on some of the many things RSL fans will be doing in Seattle next weekend and my RSL vs. LA Galaxy MLS Cup match preview on Friday night. Saturday will be a crazy day with me trying to hit both RSL practice at Qwest field (if it is open to media), and to hit some of the events at the supporter summit (http://www.sounderscouncil.com/summit/) but I will try to post some pictures and updates during the day. Sunday is match day and I will try to post some updates before the match and there is no way in hell that I am posting anything after the match, I will be out partying and hopefully drinking a little bubbly from the Cup. Monday when I wake up, I will try to post some pictures and update you on the craziness.

As always there will be a bunch of breaking news this week and I will do my very best to keep everyone up to date and will post info from both RSL and MLS as we head towards the huge match, so check in often for updates.

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