Reflections on Several Tuesday Night US Open Cup Matches
Joe gets romantic about a competition returning for the first time in three years
https://joebush.net/2022/04/20/reflections-on-several-tuesday-night-us-open-cup-matches/
Since it really goes on in the background - games are played on Tuesday and Wednesday nights and buried deep within ESPN+ - I didn’t really notice when the US Open Cup wasn’t happening over the past two years. It wasn’t at the forefront of my mind, I missed the Open Cup but it didn’t hit me that hard that I was missing it until I had it back, which is what prompted me to get writing. There’s been a lot of stuff like that over the past year or so.
I didn’t even get into my two favorite US Open Cup games, both of which happened in May 2012, when 4th-division Michigan Bucks beat the Chicago Fire and fifth-divsion Cal FC beat the Portland Timbers.