Rodney Marsh

The Soccer Bowl crowd was unforgiving toward Vancouver for knocking the Cosmos out of the playoffs, but the Caps were unyielding on the field, stopping Rodney Marsh and the Rowdies to win the NASL championship

Rich and ready, the Cosmos won their second consecutive Soccer Bowl from a Tampa Bay team that sorely missed its big star

Thanks largely to an influx of big-name foreign players and low ticket prices, crowds at a number of NASL franchises have sprouted to pro football proportions