How the Columbus Crew Won the 2020 MLS Championship, 2 Years After Changing Owners
In late 2017, the Columbus Crew, a struggling MLS franchise, announced plans to relocate to Austin. Even though more than 10,000 fans signed a pledge to purchase season tickets if the Crew stayed in Columbus, rarely do such stories turn out well. Ask Raider fans. Supersonics fans. Chargers fans. (Even, coincidentally enough, Browns fans.) Jimmy and Dee Haslam considered the negative impact on Columbus, and Ohio, if the team left. As owners of the Cleveland Browns since 2012, they had heard the stories of when the Browns moved to Baltimore in 1996. (Cleveland was awarded a new franchise i...
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