In 2011, the year the Portland Timbers joined Major League Soccer, you would have been hard pressed to find a fan more obsessed with the team than Noah Schultz.
Schultz kept a scrapbook – the “Portland Timbers Bible,” he called it – filled with cutouts of all the newspaper articles he could find about the Timbers. While he couldn't watch any of the team's matches on cable, he always tuned in when the games were on local TV, and he never missed a match on the radio.
Nothing would have made Schultz happier that season than getting the chance to sit inside Providence Park to watch a Timbers match in person.