If the league goes along with this or fails to step in, it could hurt Major League Soccer financially. And MLS is not all that robust - I probably could name 5 or 10 team or individual pro sports in the US that are financially more robust than MLS. E.G., the San Jose Earthquakes' Avaya Stadium has 60% of the seating capacity as the San Jose State football stadium (18K and 30K, respectively; the 49ers' Levi Stadium and Stanford's stadium are much larger still.