In LAFC's two years of existence, the club has quickly become one of the most important in Major League Soccer. From its downtown stadium and raucous atmosphere to its appealing style of play and single-season MLS points record, the club has been an unmitigated success.
Those facts don't exactly drum up much excitement down the 110 freeway in Carson, where the LA Galaxy have existed for years without any real threat to their supremacy in the local market. For swaths of Galaxy supporters, LAFC was -- and maybe still is -- considered a shiny new object incapable of measuring up to their club's history.