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Columbus Crew SC (2008, 2020, 2023 MLS Champions)

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OHSportsFan said:
At least the team is back next year.

Glory to Columbus.
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Save The Crew stopped a bad sports owner from relocating their team, and so can you

The remarkable story of the Columbus Crew and a group of fans who never believed they couldn’t save their favorite team.

Someone at every sporting event is miserable. Spectator sports were originally intended to be pure entertainment, but they’ve morphed into something much more meaningful, and therefore anxiety-inducing for most people. A crowd shot from any given sports television broadcast is going to show you many more nervous faces than happy ones.

Stumbling upon something in sports that produces nothing but joy feels special. And the Crew Legends game, played on Oct. 28 before the Columbus Crew’s final regular-season home game of the year, was the happiest sporting event I’ve ever seen. Hell, it might be the happiest event of any kind I have ever been to. Everyone was smiling, laughing, joking. There wasn’t a serious or neutral face in the crowd.

It didn’t matter that the weather was horrible, or the game was played on a field that, well, let’s be real, was a more like a drainage ditch than a field.

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A month earlier, no one had any idea if the Crew would continue to exist beyond 2018. Most people assumed the team couldn’t be saved once its owner Anthony Precourt made his decision to leave.

But Save The Crew, the fan-led movement to keep the team in Columbus that formed after Precourt’s announcement, never lost hope. To the surprise of many outsiders, MLS and prospective new club owners indicated the the Crew were likely staying put just a couple weeks before that drainage-ditch game.

“The Friday when the news came out was one of the greatest days of my life, just because everything we’ve been working on came to a head and came to a positive conclusion,” says David Miller, director of communications for Save The Crew. “This is the first time this has really happened in major league sports in America, where the fans have fought the system and won.”

This event could have featured very easily just as many tears as it did jokes; it was nearly a sendoff to beloved members of a dying team. Instead, fans got to celebrate the people who helped build the club they’ll get to support well into the future, while also getting treated to one of the greatest plays in the history of world football.


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Entire article: https://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2018/11/13/18085660/save-the-crew-columbus-anthony-precourt
 
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