Apple MLS Studios in Stamford, Connecticut. Apple/MLS Anyone walking through the halls of The Studios at WWE in Stamford, Connecticut on Oct. 18 would have been forgiven for thinking it was a national holiday. The greeting of the moment was "Happy Decision Day," and you would hear it walking through the halls as producers, graphics designers and crew made their way across the sprawling facility. Decorations were abound in cubicles, offices and green rooms, and snack carts were set up around almost every quarter. There was a lot of soccer still to play. Related Stories TV Fox's Joe Davis Is Ready to Play Ball TV World Series 2025: Where to Stream the L.A. Dodgers vs. Toronto Blue Jays Online Without Cable For Major League Soccer, Decision Day is one of the most important days of the season, aside from the MLS Cup championship match. Technically the final day of the regular season, it is when all the MLS teams play games simultaneously, the final spots for the playoffs are decided, home field advantage is determined, and players get one last chance to make their case for award recognition. And the MLS facility in Stamford is the hub, with control rooms and studios not only delivering all the games to fans, but MLS 360, the league's whip-around studio show, as well. And Decision Day is when MLS 360 really shines. "It's organized chaos, like this is a chaotic show, and I wouldn't have it any other way, because we can't predict what's going to happen," says Kevin Egan, one of the show's hosts. "It's eight games, 90 minutes throughout, a lot on the line, and we've got to be traffic cops while editorializing throughout." The WWE's new Stamford headquarters is in a building that once housed a UBS trading floor. Conveniently, says Seth Bacon, executive vp of media for MLS, the same pipes that allowed for lightning-fast trades are perfect for delivering ultra high-definition video. When the WWE decided to open its studios to outside programming, the facility was turnkey. The only thing MLS needed to do was coordinate schedules. "If we can coordinate schedules and get staff in, we have the facilities that we need, and then it's a long term deal, it's three years," Bacon says, walking through the halls of the facility toward the MLS 360 studio. "That gives us a lot more stability and sort of certainty in what we need to produce. So that gives us the ability to produce, not only on the weekends but mid-weeks, more content." MLS, alongside their partners IMG (which, like the WWE are now part of TKO Group Holdings), have built what IMG senior vp Stephen Cook calls a "football factory in America." "One of the challenges we face is that football, or soccer as it's known over here, isn't always at the top of people's CVs in terms of what they know," Cook says, sitting in a balloon-clad green room. "So to be able to create a young team starting from the bottom up, and be able to develop their skill sets and give them all of the tools they need in a fantastic facility like this, is what really convinced me that this was the place I needed to be." "Getting that virtual studio going and into that building in Stamford has made our jobs much easier to do," says Royce Dickerson, the head of sports production for Apple TV. "We've become a lot more efficient in the way we produce our content, but working with them every day, my team with Seth's team, it's been a fun partnership, and we've learned a lot about our customers and their customers along the way, and we're going to continue to iterate and innovate around our learnings." WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images The MLS 360 studio is not exactly what it seems on TV. As has become increasingly common for TV production, the studio itself is something of a mirage: Walls and floors are green screen, only the desk, the anchors and analysts are real. As Decision Day kicked off and MLS 360 showed live coverage of a match, former MLS star turned analyst Dax McCarty pointed at one of the dozens of screens within view of the host desk: He spotted a goal from the Seattle Sounders, playing against NYC FC. Seconds later, a "key play alert" graphic appeared, Egan teed up the highlight, and the control room funneled the goal to viewers at home. "I can sit here and have a conversation with you for an hour about MLS and about all my hottest takes and about all my beliefs, and it's easy, it's like we're two guys at a bar having a conversation," McCarty says of the pressure he faces as an analyst. "As soon as that light turns on with the camera, and you have a producer in your ear telling you you have 30 seconds, telling you to wrap your point up, telling you that you need to go to break or that you need to throw it to another analyst. It's easy to get, for lack of a better word, discombobulated out there. I would equate it to a game, where you're in these really high leverage, high pressure moments, and you have to be mentally at your sharpest and at your bes