In Major League Soccer, you have some rivalries that are forced and some that are organic. FC Dallas and Houston Dynamo will never get along whether the game is 0-0 or 4-4, that is simply a fact. Another rivalry, against the Chicago Fire, has felt a bit contrived over the years as the games simply have not kept up to the standard of the early 2000′s and Chicago’s move to the East has pretty much killed any rivalry for fans that have joined in the last five years…

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