Stupéfier!

For those of you not familiar with French, apparently that means Amazing! Thank you Babel Fish.

So lets talk about the Champions League action from yesterday from the CONKA, CONKA, CONKAKHAFFF section.

I wanted to give a shout out to our USL Canadian brethren, the Montreal Impact, for their impressive showing in a 2-0 victory last night against Santos Laguna of Mexico in the CONCACAF Champions League. A crowd of 55,571 spectators filled the Olympic Stadium, next door to the L'Impact's regular home, Stade Saputo, to watch the USL-1 side defeat the 2008 Mexican Clausura champions.

The two-goal pad puts Montreal in the driver's seat for the return leg, to be played a week from today in el Estadio Corona in Torreón, Mexico. The winner of the series will take on the winner of the Houston Dynamo-Atlante (Mexico) series. That tie is currently level at 1-1 after the Dynamo surrendered a late goal in the first leg Tuesday night in Houston.

What makes the attendance achievement so amazing, as a number of people have pointed out to me today, is the Impact set a team and CONCACAF record last night AS WELL AS beating out the attendance figures of 5 of the 8 European Champions League first legs that were played Tuesday and Wednesday. Bravo, Montreal!

The other USL team involved in the Champions League, Puerto Rico Islanders, are set to take on Marathon of Honduras tonight in Bayamon, PR. Kickoff is at 8PM ET and LIVE on Fox Soccer Channel.

In other news, I wanted to encourage followers of the 14 Point Blog to join the Bucks group on ESPN's Streak for the Cash. Create an entry and join the "Michigan Bucks Pool". I'm currently sitting on 1, thank you Chelsea and Juve for only scoring once yesterday.

Join me in trying to beat out Kyle Karns for $1 million.