Why I Love This Beautiful Game Part 3: Year Round Play

I will be the first to tell you that I am not a huge fan of the MLS. I started watching the beautiful game and saw nothing but European teams to start out with. This spoiled the hell out of me. The MLS is almost always touted in serious football circles as being a pansy league. Even with David Beckham trying to change that, it is unlikely that the MLS will ever reach greath heights in the states, let alone worldwide. You know what I figured out that I like about MLS though? It's on during the summer. When the rest of Europe is taken a holiday from the sport. I get a game that has seen its level of quality increase slowly over the last five years. It isn't La Liga, the EPL, or even the Australian leagues, but it is a perfect reprieve to having football in the off months. That is a truly beautiful thing. There is always some incarnation of the beautiful game on at some time during the year. Granted most of it is on during the fall to spring, there is still football on. American football, ... (link)