In the final season of the amazing TV show The Office, Andy Bernard drops one of the most heartbreaking lines of all time when he says “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good ol’ days before you’ve actually left them”.

Folks, right now, we are in the good ol’ days of FC Cincinnati.

This is a sports story that will live on in this city for generations. In fact, this is a tournament run that will be forever remembered in the history of the U.S. Open Cup around the country. An upstart team in Cincinnati, in only its second year, went on a run that included defeating two MLS clubs and the best the NASL had to offer to make it to the semi-finals. What FC Cincinnati just did is what every single lower division club has hoped for since at least 1996. That is a victory in and of itself. The world took notice of this team. MLS Commissioner Don Garber and USSF President Sunil Gulati were in attendance last night. That is not normal. Regardless of the score line, this team exceeded even the most optimistic goals.