More Lovely and More Temperate

I love the story and lore of the 35-yard shootouts from the middle years of the NASL and early seasons of MLS. I’ve lived through them, and I’ve written at length about them here on this site. It’s possible things I probably should know and remember have been forcibly evicted from my hippocampus by pretty much all there is to know about something as trivial as starting 35 yards from goal with 5 seconds to get off a shot when the game is on the line. I’ve even tracked down the exact Washington DC-area house where the idea was...