It feels far off now, but whenever sports return and MLS gets into the swing of its 25th season, we’ll likely see an abundance of “best-of” lists and compilations of memorable events from the league’s history: glorious, iconic moments like Eddie Pope’s winning goal in extra time of the first MLS Cup, the arrival of David Beckham and, later that season — 2007 was a very good year — Ricardo Clark mercilessly stomping on Carlos Ruiz.



There is an entirely different set of memories, though, that you won’t hear about: the spats and the pranks and the not-for-your-grandma’s-ears traditions, the stories involving strip-club buffets, the destruction of a local TGI Friday’s and Frank Lampard playing beer pong.



During these difficult times, when all of us could use a little bit of levity, those are the stories we want to hear. So we’ve compiled 25 of them, culled from interviews with current and former MLS...