PBP: The Other MLS Teams' Paraphernalia Thread: Now Legal in Two States

...until someone showed him the money. That's always going to win.

 

Money does win, until politicians join. http://m.wftv.com/news/news/local/controversy-brewing-after-mls-awards-atlanta-team-/nffnJ/

Google Now knows me too well.

 

That is some crack team investigating right there. How on earth did they find that out?

While I'm sympathetic to the fact Orlando officials and the teams owners might feel slighted, anyone doing just a cursory digging into the league already knows the rules change all the time and different expansion teams come in under different conditions.

 

This is mostly just sour grapes from one commissioner who voted against the stadium in the first place. He's also conveniently ignoring the fact that Atlanta's stadium, although not soccer-only, will be designed and built with soccer in mind, whereas the Citrus bowl

a) was not
b) would cost more to renovate into a soccer stadium than to build a new one from scratch, and
c) is a huge piece of shit, and will remain so no matter what they do to it.

 

Still think that it's bullshit and Garber has become a total money whore over all sense of principles.

 

That triumvirate was success waiting to be tapped based upon the rivalry... and I don't think anyone could have predicted Seattle blowing up as much as it did.

 

1. Garber isn't calling the shots at that level the owners are telling him what they want and he does his best to make it happen.

2. I couldn't care less about the southern three; MLS was always going to go Atlanta and Miami, Orlando is a bit of a wildcard but fine. Plastic turf is not fine that's the part that I don't like about sharing stadiums with football teams.

3. The part that I still don't like about the New York expansion is how northeast centric the thinking is. I really don't think the rest of the country is captivated by city rivalries like HQ thinks they are. Meanwhile there are teams growing the sport at the grass roots level, building stadiums, and drawing decent crowds in other cities and they're being snubbed.

4. I really hate that they are northeast centric but aren't doing anything about the New England/Boston problem. If Kraft doesn't give a shit about his team find a new owner and get them in Boston. No it won't be easy but how many people did the league have working on the New York deal. Oh well at least they took out Chivas, of course they have to stay in LA and play second fiddle to the Galaxy until they have their one good season out of fifteen and all the front running glory hounds switch allegiances like all the "Clippers" fans are doing now.

 

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Phoenix Atlanta...or wait Atlanta Phoenix?

 

The pholks in Phoenix should be thrilled. Atlanta is now picking where their failed sports franchises will move to before they even get started now.

 

I though Portland has one?

 

We did have a Phoenix FC near my home in eastern PA--played there once or twice. Guess they are playing on the bird theme.

 

Wait... a small stink was made about the "Welcome to MLS" picture but one of the top voted names is "Atlanta Blaze"?

While I get it, I don't think the marketing & business folks are really going to go for the "Atlanta Phoenix" name. Too much chance for brand confusion.

 

Atlanta Phoenix is perfect though. The only thing more perfect is the Atlanta Phoenix Winnipeg Quebec's. That way, they're already pre-made to be relocated to any of the usual suspects.

 

No it's a multi use stadium that has been renovated and upgraded a bunch of times to suit soccer. It was originally used for baseball. And it's field turf.

 

It's not ideal to have the NFL co-share, but if they can make the sight lines work as well as make it "seem" full on TV (such as in Seattle, not New England) and if it's the same owner, there really isn't much need to make the guy pay for another stadium which would almost surely compete with some events...and we know that intra-city competition between arenas isn't always the best thing (see: Columbus.)

And this owner has promised no NFL markings. At least he seems more honest than your local Qataris.

 

So we make a joke about their city burning down, they cry about it, then they vote on a team name that symbolizes rising from the ashes to be reborn.

This should be fun.

 

Houston 1861, anyone?

 

I think it was a bunch of jerkoffs from University of Texas.

 

Got a lot of feedback on Twitter before Olbermann even chimed in, who knows where they were from.

 

I've been to three Falcons games and when they are in season, their motto is "Rise Up", so I guess this also goes along with that...maybe.

 

Maybe it's just an Atlanta call-back to the Gold Club.