View Full Version : What was wrong with "MLS Teams"?
Jegao Paraiba
10 Mar 2006, 01:23 PM
Now in order to get here you have to click the "MLS Clubs" link?
Is Red Bull's influence already so pervasive that they are junking up BigSoccer?
What's next?
"MLS Sides"?
I guess I'm just getting older but the change has really thrown off my BigSoccer rhythm.
DoctorD
19 Mar 2006, 08:39 AM
Good question. the Eurosnobs have won.
jade1mls
18 Jul 2006, 09:20 PM
Good question. the Eurosnobs have won.
Anyone who respects the tradition of the game is a Eurosnob even though this is something played all around the world.....
South america has Clubs, as do Africa and Asia
Or is this another case of someone who loves American provincialism?
BBBulldog
18 Jul 2006, 09:59 PM
as long as it's not franchises, that word makes me angry :D
Stan Collins
18 Jul 2006, 10:09 PM
as long as it's not franchises, that word makes me angry :D But it's the most accurate word.
Either "franchises" or "clubs" is more accurate than "teams." Teams is too restrictive. You could only call it teams if you're only talking about the guys on the field and the bench. If you talk about the owner, the stadium, the business, that's not part of the team.
But they are all franchises of one company, technically.
RevsCurvaSud
22 Jul 2006, 09:33 PM
That Cletus avatar combined with that post just makes me chuckle.
Titanole
23 Jul 2006, 10:02 PM
Baseball franchises are called clubs as well. Surely they cannot be called Eurosnobs as well.
Nacional Tijuana
25 Sep 2006, 11:24 AM
MLS covens.
Dave Brull
25 Sep 2006, 12:25 PM
A gaggle of MLS?
OKTerrific
28 Sep 2006, 04:25 PM
Now in order to get here you have to click the "MLS Clubs" link?
Is Red Bull's influence already so pervasive that they are junking up BigSoccer?
What's next?
"MLS Sides"?
I guess I'm just getting older but the change has really thrown off my BigSoccer rhythm.
My God, cork it. Let it go. It's soccer. We invented every sport here in North America but soccer. They invented it in Europe. We should, in turn, use their terms.
LinesmanBoo!
29 Sep 2006, 02:36 AM
Good question. the Eurosnobs have won.
Can we have one sport in the world that isn't americanized garbage and turned to utter shite like the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, etc. etc.
Cashcleaner
12 Jun 2007, 01:19 AM
My God, cork it. Let it go. It's soccer. We invented every sport here in North America but soccer. They invented it in Europe. We should, in turn, use their terms.
Well that's not really true. I mean Basketball and Hockey were invented by Canadians. But I'll totally give you Baseball and American Football. :D
WelshCelt
13 Jun 2007, 11:27 AM
as long as it's not franchises, that word makes me angry :D
"Franchise" is sacrilege! It makes it sound like a business, a football club is so much more than that.
OKTerrific
13 Jun 2007, 11:28 AM
Not anymore man, everyone knows that football is a business now.
WelshCelt
13 Jun 2007, 11:55 AM
Not anymore man, everyone knows that football is a business now.
Football is business, but the clubs are institutions, they belong to the fans, the city. A football club is sacred, relegated or Champions, its your club for life.
revs
13 Jun 2007, 12:51 PM
Football is business, but the clubs are institutions, they belong to the fans, the city. A football club is sacred, relegated or Champions, its your club for life.
Thats what I wish we could have here, needless to say, my dreams are not fulfilled.
Roush
13 Jun 2007, 01:00 PM
Well that's not really true. I mean Basketball and Hockey were invented by Canadians. But I'll totally give you Baseball and American Football. :D
Except that baseball was a modified version of rounders (invented by the brits) and American Football is a variant of rugby... :D
OKTerrific
13 Jun 2007, 02:05 PM
i always thought baseball came from cricket
peabrainedidiot
13 Jun 2007, 05:26 PM
Football is business, but the clubs are institutions, they belong to the fans, the city. A football club is sacred, relegated or Champions, its your club for life.
I wish you were right, but you are just a walking dollar sign (or quid sign in your case). You're loyalty is your passion, but to them it's just brand loyalty to a product. You are a meaningless number to them. They don't care who you are personally, you are a seat filler. Especially biger clubs who have publically traded stock.. forget about it...shareholders 1st, fans second. and for the fans who are shareholders, they will care about your share value long before they care about you.
it's just the sad truth.
WelshCelt
13 Jun 2007, 10:05 PM
I wish you were right, but you are just a walking dollar sign (or quid sign in your case). You're loyalty is your passion, but to them it's just brand loyalty to a product. You are a meaningless number to them. They don't care who you are personally, you are a seat filler. Especially biger clubs who have publically traded stock.. forget about it...shareholders 1st, fans second. and for the fans who are shareholders, they will care about your share value long before they care about you.
it's just the sad truth.
Yes, I know. I mean I'm a season ticket holder, I go to every game home and away, yet I am disposable.
However, that is not the important thing. Sure the Celtic management can abuse me, and they have done so to all the fans in the past, the priority is that Celtic survive.
If someone tried to bring down Celtic football club for financial purposes, or to 'relocate the franchise' to somewhere else, they would be found floating in the Clyde.