Soccer

Interplanetary Space Travel and Real Salt Lake

Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy last night 3-0, snapping an 18-game winless streak for the Utah team. Salt Lake fans had been pining away for a victory since August 6, 2005, and which is a really long time to watch your team lose. How long? Long enough to fly a rocket to another friggin planet. NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on August 12, 2005, and it reached the Red Planet in March, a full two months before Real Salt Lake was ready to pull out a win. Some other things that happened while Real Salt Lake was trying in vain to win a game:

• The White Sox ended an 88-year World Series championship drought
• The Steelers won their first Super Bowl since 1980
• The Olympics came and went
• A new species of shark was discovered
• Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, St. Patrick’s Day, and Memorial Day
• A whole lot of people died
• A whole lot more people were born

It is interesting to note here that Real Salt Lake is owned by Dave Checketts, who is buying the St. Louis Blues hockey team, which suffered through a 13-game losing streak at the end of this season to finish with a record of 21-46-15. I guess Mr. Checketts likes him some losing teams.

(Oh, and thanks to jamesey2 for the pic of Mormon soccer fans at a Real Salt Lake game. Classic.)

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