1. In October 2019, our club announced its long-awaited return to downtown Chicago and historic Soldier Field after more than a decade in the suburbs in Bridgeview. To bring fans along for the journey and to help re-introduce ourselves to a crowded sports market, we decided to launch an all-access and cinematic behind the scenes show documenting the run-up to the team's debut at the legendary venue.
2. Our front of jersey partner, Motorola, wanted to deepen its ties to the club and connect to the highly-publicized return to Soldier Field. We brought these two objectives together to organically create a premium content series that added value for our club, our fans, and our biggest corporate sponsor.

• Pre-COVID: Our first episodes were shot with the best all-access documentary-style sports shows in mind. Narrative and storytelling came first, with the objective to not only take Fire fans where they've never been before, but make them feel emotions and invest in our club and its players on a human level. Just watch the opening 50 seconds of "Turning Up The Heat" and tell me you don't get goosebumps.
• Post-COVID: The Fire were one of a handful of MLS teams that did not get to play a home game prior to the pandemic. This was a gut punch especially to our team due to the historic nature of the first match back at Soldier Field. So we were left with a decision: Put the series on pause or find a way to adapt. We did the latter. While in lockdown, we had a pair of roomates and a pair of dads host episodes - all shot vertically from their homes with cell phones. Once play resumed, we pivoted again to "The Detour", a side series chronically the team's stay in the Orlando bubble at MLS is Back Tournament.

We took fans behind the scenes of the club through cinematic storytelling, first-person style vlogs in the homes of our athletes, and chronicled the unprecedented monthlong bubble before finally the team got its chance to play at Soldier Field, an emphatic 3-0 win. The series totaled more than 1.2 million views and 3.2 million impressions; by far our most consumed content series of the year, and it happened to be tied to our biggest sponsor.