The smallest crowd – 4,725 – turned out at Soldier Field to watch the Spurs defeat the St Louis Stars 2-1; club officials claimed tornado warnings kept the numbers down. Thus, MLS has to talk out of both corners of its mouth: including him in its “Don’t Cross the Line” . He watched firsthand as the league his father bought into for $2,500 in 1933 became a multi-billion dollar, year-round business. As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier wrote later that year, Rooney was taken with Obama’s ability to connect with people.