It started in the bowels of TCF Bank Stadium, back when that was its name and that was where Minnesota United played.
I really had no business being there. I might have had school that day. I didn’t have my license yet, so my mom drove me there. I didn’t have any real journalistic training, so I was just armed with a notebook and a brand-new tape recorder that my dad bought me. I was 15 years old, on assignment to cover the Loons’ first ever practice inside the stadium that would be their home for their MLS debut seasons.