Our Holy Grail. Yesterday, we finally got to meet the original US Open Cup trophy. The famed “Dewar Cup”. The story goes that it was gifted to the USFA in 1912 by a Scottish whiskey baron, and it’s ornate beauty naturally led it to become the trophy for the nascent US Open Cup back in the 1913/14 season. Without a doubt, it’s a trophy fitting for the most historic and longest-running sports competition in our country. A competition that’s captivated generations of American soccer fans, much like ourselves. Our visit to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Frisco, Texas, yesterday was everything we could’ve dreamed of and more. A promised land of sorts after eight long years of working in the American soccer space. For a long time, we always believed that someday we’d get to visit “once the time was right.” After a year of chasing every round of the 2025 Open Cup on a school-bus-turned-mobile-American-soccer-museum, we finally got our chance. As fate would have it, our road from Nash...