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Red Smoke Radio Episode 35: The Mysteries of the 2014 Season

Katelyn and Tyler take an astonished look back at the 2014 Thorns season.

Red Smoke Radio returns with more quarantine content, this time recapping the 2014 Portland Thorns season.

“If I win 6-5, I’m happy with that.”

Those words kicked off the Rileyball era of the Portland Thorns, and how prophetic they turned out to be. The Thorns won the title in 2013, but they didn’t do it “their way.” In 2014, with a new coach at the helm, they sought to be the most entertaining team in the world. What happened? Katelyn and Tyler look on, astonished, at Portland’s place in one of the wackiest NWSL seasons in history. Were they good? Unclear.