TORONTO – If there’s one thing the Seattle sports fan should have learned by now, it’s to savor these rare championship forays.
Sometimes, you can see them developing with clarity and a sense of near inevitability, as when the Seahawks rampaged to the Super Bowl title after the 2013 season. And sometimes, they emerge unexpectedly, a gift from the heavens, as this Sounders march to Saturday’s MLS Cup has been.
You can say no one saw it coming, and that would be half-right. Truth is, few even conceived it in the realm of wishful thinking, though Sounders general manager Garth Lagerwey said that even in the darkest times, the club still believed it had the nucleus of success.