I was under the impression down south they couldnt give a flying one about soccer
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
New York Cosmos (7): 6859San Antonio Scorpions (7): 6763Carolina Railhawks (7): 4708Atlanta Silverbacks (7): 4364Fort Lauderdale Strikers (7): 4224Tampa Bay Rowdies (7): 4051Minnesota United FC (7): 3679FC Edmonton (7): 2760
avg attendance fall 2013 NASL
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:40 (ten years ago) link
go scorpions
btw we have a real grass SSS that can be expanded to 18000+ fuck atlanta and their football stadium
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
I've heard Atlanta isn't gonna be the silverbacks.
And I think the prevailing wisdom is the south is shaky ground for soccer. MLS has already failed in Florida before, and the growing expansion fees are starting to be compared to the growth of the original NASL. But, if you've got established rich ppl tossing down money, as an existing league investor-operator (which is what all the "owners" really are)... Gotta be hard to say no to lining your pockets.
― dan m, Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
Btw Indy Eleven had 11k plus for their first match and have 7k season ticket holders, they're potentially going to be huge in NASL. I have two friends in the front office and with Peter Wilt at the helm there's not really a limit what they could become.
― dan m, Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
nasl getting some legit action now
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:02 (ten years ago) link
Also NYCFC are gonna be playing at Yankee stadium which IMO is bigger bullshit than a 70-80k football stadium.
― dan m, Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
hahaha fuck the yankees forever
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:08 (ten years ago) link
also im starting to realize the thing i like most abt sports is hating other places
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:09 (ten years ago) link
p much what it's all about yeah
I mean, seconds after the Atlanta announcement, some dippy Crew blog posted this & it went viral
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlWwP2GCEAI01PP.jpg
― dan m, Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:16 (ten years ago) link
yankees stadium is some bullshindy and SA seem to me from the outside so much more organic, but i don't trust nasl not to f it up.
― stuff n buff (anky), Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:30 (ten years ago) link
sa tryina get into mls tho
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Thursday, 17 April 2014 10:27 (ten years ago) link
MPLS is considered the front runner for the last slot I think
― gbx, Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:19 (ten years ago) link
http://soccer.si.com/2014/04/16/mls-expansion-criteria-atlanta/
Very roughly estimated, the combined contributions of NYCFC, Miami, Orlando and Atlanta come to a total somewhere near $280 million. Each MLS club will pocket some $14 million.
― dan m, Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
xpyeah but fuck that shit, i need some real ass teams when the spurs are in the offseason
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Friday, 18 April 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
lols http://www.lagalaxy.com/video/2014/04/24/alexi-lalas-runs-hill-during-2011-lamar-hunt-us-open-cup-0
― stuff n buff (anky), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2014/05/major-league-soccer-money-problems.html
― dan m, Saturday, 3 May 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2014/05/12/Media/MLS-TV.aspx
New TV deal, $75 mil/year, all streaming moves to ESPN/Fox platforms. End of Direct Kick, possibly?
― dan m, Monday, 12 May 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2014/05/12/Media/ESPN-MLS-out-of-market.aspx
ESPN dealing with the streaming side of things, thankfully
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 12 May 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
(out of market, that is)
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 12 May 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
If they lock it to Watch ESPN I'm done. Not getting tv to follow the games. Happy with the online pass as it is.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 May 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
Howie @Howie_OT 3m
36 year-old Lampard passing to 33 year-old David Villa in a baseball stadium will exorcise the NASL demons from MLS once and for all.
― dan m, Monday, 2 June 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
new nycfc sg, can't tell if srs but still laughing
https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t1.0-9/10433902_10200864844662262_8823603754387136065_n.jpg
― dan m, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
i hope nycfc sucks as much as the knicks do
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
ugh fuck the fire so much
― dan m, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
years of non-investment, purposeful agitation of fans, and general mismanagement are sinking the club, it's so fucking frustrating, I almost wish there was relegation here to permanently fuck over the idiots who are in charge
― dan m, Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
don't know anything about the Fire other than the Sounders-Fire cup game I saw last night but that was brutal
― anonanon, Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
that was just the latest straw
― dan m, Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
Lalas just said New England are getting Jermaine Jones
― anonanon, Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Revs announced it on twitter.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Somebody sent me email about JJJ deal gone astray a few days ago.
― Dear Ultraviolet Catastrophe Waitress (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
Here was earlier story: http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/66/united-states/2014/08/21/5049423/sources-jermaine-jones-deal-with-mls-hits-snag?ICID=HP_HN_1
― Dear Ultraviolet Catastrophe Waitress (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Okay, I see
― Dear Ultraviolet Catastrophe Waitress (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 August 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
All reports indicate the league decided this by flipping a coin
― dan m, Monday, 25 August 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
god i love mls
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
on a serious note it really sucks that this of all seasons is the year it's been mostly impossible for me to go to dcu games - they've been incredible (and there's something deeply funny about eddie johnson sort of being a liability to that)
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
yeah they got chris rolfe from chicago and he's been his same old self again, must have just needed a change of scenery (I heard he wanted out pretty badly + the fire wanted to dump salary)
kudos to dc for sticking with ben olsen long enough for his plan to come together, it's too bad the fire didn't keep frank klopas around long enough for him to get there
― dan m, Monday, 25 August 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
rolfe broke his arm, probably out for a month or so :(
(or maybe he can use the cast as a weapon a la "cowboy" bob orton)
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 4 September 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
dang, that sucks, but that's the other side of rolfe -- he's good for at least one month+ injury break every year
― dan m, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
haha:During pregame tifo setup, the capos on the stand started jawing at the New York players as is the norm for any team coming through the tunnel. One of the capos started calling Thierry Henry "Captain Handball", and he and Henry "chirped back and forth for like a minute" according to the capo. Apparently Petke came back up the tunnel and started screaming "Hey! Hey! F**K YOU!" while pointing at the capo. Petke continued his tantrum by saying "You're all scumbags! You'll never amount to anything!" before going back down the tunnel to the locker rooms.
― houston nutt (anky), Monday, 15 September 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link
lol petke
the comments on that post imply that petke might have been pissed off about the water on the field - i was watching the game saturday and it was hard for me not to think of that 2012 playoff game against dc, when nyrb famously did the bare minimum to get the snow cleared off the field before kickoff. if they don't get angrier about field conditions than every other mls team combined, they certainly don't do anything to dispel that reputation.
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 15 September 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
usoc woo btw
― houston nutt (anky), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 07:00 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxtADcFIIAE_Vys.png
― houston nutt (anky), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 07:01 (nine years ago) link
3 former Fire players in that Seattle lineup u_u
― dan m, Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
David Villa on $60k lol
http://www.mlsplayers.org/images/September%2015%202014%20Salary%20Information%20-%20Alphabetical.pdf
Also Chivas USA suspends operations for 2015-2016 ;_;
― dan m, Monday, 29 September 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Say whaaaaat
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 01:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.si.com/soccer/planet-futbol/2014/09/30/chivas-usa-ownership-mls-vincent-tan-henry-nguyen-peter-guber-tom-penn-la
ho boy
― dan m, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.si.com/soccer/planet-futbol/2014/10/01/thierry-henry-new-york-red-bulls-mls-premier-league-uefa-concussions
interesting talk here too: henry is not re-signing and red bull is not sticking with their team/stadium long-term
― dan m, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link