second of the year – in nine first-half minutes to demolish Real Salt Lake and confirm his MLS MVP credentials: Many of us in the RFK press box really thought the old house might crumble during that year’s Gold Cup, when a sellout crowd saw El Salvador – whose national team has made the stadium their second home on account of the region’s large expatriate population – duel Panama in a breathless quarterfinal clash. The passion, noise and well, vibration was palpable as the game went to PKs: In 2012, Englishman Lewis Neal scored the game-winning goal in a D.C. victory over Columbus that clinched a playoff spot for United, ending a painful five-year postseason drought and sparking a particularly visceral reaction from the home faithful: The USthink about how the place has aged over the years, how the paint has flaked away, how its cracks have started to show. A few years back, I lost a loved one. She was in her 90s and spent her final years in bed. I visited her when I could – I remember looking at her face and noticing, for the first time, how beautiful her blue eyes were, framed by her skin, which looked like parchment paper. Buildings are like that, too. There is beauty there sometimes even in their decay, and RFK has over the years gone from a modern marvel to damn near a hole in the ground. But it's a beautiful pile of rubble, and I've sort of enjoyed watching it fall apart over