And oh yeah, the Metro didn't run on Sundays, when the Dips played most of their home games. In fact, the team itself, coached by the English-born Gordon Bradley, was notably Anglophone apart from the Bosnian Sakib Viteskic and the Hungarian Jozsef Horvath, just about the entire roster came from Anglophone countries (the British Isles, North America, South Africa, and Bermuda). Although the local Latino community was much smaller then than now, obviously, it was still nothing to sneeze at, yet there was virtually no effort on the part of the Dips to reach out to that segment of the market. There was nothing even remotely like the SE/BB/LN. Thus, a 4-2 result produced nine points for the winning side and two points for the losers. IIRC, wins bought you six points, draws counted for three, and then each team got a point for its first three goals on top of that. In addition to the 35-yard line and such, you may have heard a reference to bonus points, another NASL idiosyncrasy. Wow! I don't whether anyone has yet mentioned it, but this artifact can be dated to the spring of 1978, which is just slightly before my time (I arrived in Virginia in the fall of that year and began to follow the Dips starting in '79).
