When they write checks to candidates, their motives are almost always fiscal. Photograph: Scott Halleran/Getty ImagesNWSLA season on the brink: wide-open NWSL making strides as f. Hernandez grew up in Bristol, Connecticut, and played for the Patriots from 2010 to 2012. A confidant of three commissioners, he played a major role in negotiations with the players’ union and in league expansion in 1976 to Seattle and Tampa.