There’s been a lot of talk this week about legacies and dynasties and how this match will ultimately impact the Seattle Sounders on a grand scale. I’ve engaged in plenty of that talk myself. I’m sure I’ll engage in plenty of it over the coming days, weeks, months and years.
Today, at least right now, it doesn’t matter.
“We have to win it,” Sounders midfielder Cristian Roldan said bluntly earlier this week. “No one remembers a finalist. That’s our mindset going in.”
The degree to which Roldan is right can certainly be debated. Plenty of people still recognize those New England Revolution teams that went to four straight MLS Cups were pretty damn good, even if they didn’t win any of them.