Five years on, D.C. United’s US Open Cup win is still unbelievable

Why do we go to D.C. United games? Is it for the atmosphere, the action? Perhaps we go because just like any other sporting event, you’re never going to know what you’ll witness. Heck, Wayne Rooney and Luciano Acosta gave us an illustration of that six weeks ago. And five years ago this week, we got an even better reflection of this when D.C. played Real Salt Lake in the 100th US Open Cup final.

D.C. United were bad during the 2013 MLS campaign. How bad you ask? D.C.’s final league win came on August 3 against the Montreal Impact. They closed the season out on a 10 game winless streak. They won 3 games in 34, scoring 22 goals in that time. In their four outings against 2013’s other terrible…