Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me for a special

MLS Cup final preview featuring interviews with Commissioner Don Garber, Portland's Giovanni

Savarese, and New York City's Sean Johnson.

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Here's my interview with Don Garber.

The MLS Cup final between Portland and New York City is Saturday at 3 p.m. Eastern on ABC

and Unimas, and our guest now is MLS Commissioner Don Garber Don.

It's great to see you.

Thanks so much for coming on the show.

It's great to see you as well, Grant.

I could see you because we're doing the Zoom, but they're going to just hear us.

Audio only on the podcast front for now, but we've been doing UNI, these annual MLS Cup

interviews for, I think, 22 years now, and I always look forward to them.

If you could tell 1999 Rookie MLS Commissioner Don Garber one thing that would have been good

for him to know, what would it be?

What were you thinking?

It's okay.

I remember when I left the NFL, and I had an exonative view with a bunch of folks from their

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