If the Fire win a game and no one’s around to see it, does it really count?
I’m being a bit unfair here. Announced attendance was over 16k; the butts-in-seats number was almost certainly lower, but in terms of size today was a decent crowd. But you couldn’t help but notice how quiet Toyota Park was all day. On the day of what was probably the Fire’s best performance of the season— a rousing 4-0 spanking of Orlando City— most of the yelling you heard on the broadcast was from players and concession vendors. FS1 color commentator Stu Holden said it sounded like a reserve game, and he wasn’t wrong.