”He has been impressed with what he has encountered so far, though. “My job is to do what’s best for the organization and to make that decision regardless of what the consequences are to me personally,” Dan Rooney once said. The Portland Thorns, benefiting from big crowds and shared infrastructure with the MLS Portland Timb. Born 20 July 1932, in Pittsburgh, Rooney was a high school quarterback, then attended Duquesne, receiving a degree in accounting.