Love or hate the NASL’s 9-game spring-season sked, it made for a heck of an opening weekend 14 Apr 2014 Now, whether you love or hate the NASL’s decision to create a spring season in which each of the 10 teams plays a nine-game schedule — with one of the top two playoff, er, “Championship” seeds going to the league champ — there’s no doubt it brought a sense of immediacy to the opening weekend.