The biggest game in American professional soccer, Major League Soccer’s annual MLS Cup championship match, hasn’t exactly been must-see TV in the past, delivering just a 0.4 rating last year. The contest hasn’t registered a 1.0 rating since 2001, and peaked at 1.4 in 1996 — the first MLS Cup.
But this year could be different. For one thing, the match-up pits two of the league’s most popular franchises, the Seattle Sounders and Toronto FC.
And maybe more importantly,