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I've got to write this here because it's so absurd. I just got Chicago Fire season tickets for $18.00 a month which includes free parking and you can accumulate the tickets you don't use and let a friend use them. I know it's not Premier League excitement, but it's still a good time.
That's a good ass deal. Can't look down on any league, gotta support your local.
Someone explain something about the MLS for me, what's the deal with the conference system? Is the league split geographically in half so there are two leagues (one west and one east) and they only play within their geographical league?
I don't see why they can't just replicate the simple European style.
There are a lot of factors why they can't copy the Euro style. For one partly the American public love playoffs and do not understand the whole point system. Watch that funny Jason Sudakis thing.
Americans love playoffs because it gives them a reason to watch the end of the season with a bang. If one team in MLS was just running away with the league no one would watch. There isn't the Champions League to focus on, well there is but no one watches that or FA cups and other things.
Two the MLS is doing things like drafts, revenue sharing and salary caps because it wants the league itself to survive. If they followed the mold of Europe where it's basically every club for themselves, MLS would be in trouble as a whole. There are not enough teams for relegation where you go down a league and another team comes up. If there was no salary cap or draft what you would have is this new team NYCFC with the oil money coming in and dominating the league, but the other clubs who don't have the money might not be able to survive financially because of it and the whole league could crumble.
It's a very hard thing to balance for MLS. If in future years it would only be a possibility if Futbol as a whole gains more popularity than all the other sports in my opinion.