An era ended on Saturday night, doing so gloriously, in a moment that feels destined to go down among the most famous in the Portland Timbers’ time at Providence Park. “I was there for Fanendo Adi’s last game,” 50,000 Portlanders will inevitably say, ignoring the fact the park’s 2018 configuration could hold nothing close to that number.
That exaggeration is only right considering the level of love that poured out of the North End when Adi scored his 80th minute winner, delivering a 2-1 victory over the visiting Houston Dynamo.