Throughout their four-plus-years of MLS Playoff dominance, the Seattle Sounders have often been effective. They’ve found different ways to win, sometimes with ruthless efficiency, other times with suffocating defense and alway displaying a difficult-to-quantify characteristic that can best be described as “heart.”
What they haven’t often been is simply “fun.” Sure, watching them win is itself fun, and it would hardly be controversial to call Brian Schmetzer’s time as head coach the most enjoyable postseason run in franchise history. Still, I think it’s almost as non-controversial to point out that neutrals don’t seem to find the Sounders’ style to be particularly pleasing.