On June 15 , 1994 , Major League Soccer announced that Columbus , Ohio , would be home to one of the ten founding members of the new top flight North American professional soccer league . Columbus had promised construction of a soccer-specific stadium and had sold over 12,000 season ticket deposits . The team was tentatively named the Columbus Eclipse in its application to the league , as a solar eclipse had passed over the city after reaching the league 's 10,000-deposit minimum , but it was eventually renamed the Crew
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Solar eclipse of May 10, 1994
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