MLS cup final, what went wrong?

I understand people are dissapointed about the overall satisfaction of the MLS CUP Final, there are many things to blame but I feel people are counting too many.
 For those who missed the action, Colorado Rapids won in overtime 2-1 to FC Dallas with an own goal. 

Don Garber and the Rapids with the MLS CUP

It is unfair to blame the two teams for not playing a nice and entertaining game. I don't remember blaming FIFA and World Cup organization of 1990 for the boring and phisical game played between Germany and Argentina that ended 1-0 with a Penalty kick goal in regulation time. We have the same case between Milan and Juventus in UEFA Champions league 2003 final, both teams played a boring scoreless battle which led them to Penalty kicks. And we can name an endless of examples where teams was just too worried about losing the game that fogot to play football. But this is the sport's nature and true fans of the game should not worry about that.

Casey, player of the game, fought every battle.

Other topic is being used to blame the lack of success of MLS CUP final is the North American nature to believe in the playoffs as an exciting way to end a season. Evidently, mostly europeans are using this argument to criticize the lack of tradition of US Soccer whereas in Europe the ligue winner is the actual champion and on the other hand MLS league winner or  "Supporters Shield" is just a team that gets a place in the underrated Concacaf Champions League. 

Remember 2 of the most important events in world soccer have a playoff format, being the UEFA Champions League and the FIFA World Cup.
 
My opinion, I grew up in a european soccer environment where you can witness a team winning the league 6 weeks before the season ends (boring), but I am also a big fan of north american professional sports like NBA, NHL and MLB and it looks pretty normal to me when the leader of the regular season doesn't have what it takes to win a playoff series and doesn't reach the finals. I like playoff environment and postseason madness from the fan point of view and I see nothing wrong in having MLS CUP playoffs at the end of the season.

What I think really went wrong sunday night was raising the expectations of the event so high and think neutral fans in Toronto would fill the stands at 3 degrees Celsius on a late Sunday night. 

Veteran Pablo Mastroeni finally had his cup.

A low profile pro league like the MLS cannot expect having a decent TV rating when NFL Sunday Night Football is on the other channel. That being said, league has to adapt to its TV rating rivals and schedule the MLS CUP final accordingly. 

Regarding the host city, this is not the all star game or the super bowl as I said in my previous post, each team needs start feeling the finals as a home battle and 2 leg series is ideally the better way to enjoy this show.