MLS Soccer in Seattle

Ok. This is somewhat interesting. It could provide me with a reason to see some MLS soccer. However. And it's a big however. Soccer should not be played on FieldTurf. Yes, my team plays on FieldTurf, but we're a bunch of guys out for fun. Real football is played on grass.

clipped from seattlepi.nwsource.com Major League Soccer is coming to Seattle. The expansion team will play its home games at Qwest Field beginning in 2009 and will be owned partly by Paul Allen's Vulcan Enterprises, with Sounders owner Adrian Hanauer and Hollywood mogul Joe Roth also in the ownership group. Gary Wright, a spokesman for First and Goal, Inc., which operates Qwest Field, said Allen will be one of the team's owners. Allen also owns the Seahawks, who play at Qwest Field, and the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. Qwest, which has a synthetic Field Turf playing surface, was designed for both football and soccer, a selling point in securing $300 million in public money to fund the construction. The expansion ends a long courtship between MLS and Seattle, and specifically Hanauer, who has been a vocal advocate for soccer in Seattle since buying the Sounders in 2002.