DC United is Working Really Hard to Sell Tickets to US Open Cup Final

The owner of DC United used his political connections in US Soccer to have the US Open Cup Final awarded DC without any sort of open bid process or explanation of how the decision was made. The game will be played at RFK Stadium, but there does not seem to be any interest at all in DC for it. They started out with a "We Win Trophies" campaign that basically set about to lecture Seattle about how good DC was, then they dropped ticket prices for the game from $25 to $12, and now they've stooped to begging barely-recognizeable "celebrities" like David Gregory to advertise for them: