"Your" New Team is Here What if you inherited at least $50 million (lottery, or whatever), and you decided to spend a chunk of that by entering NWSL with your very own created expansion team. Where would it be located? What city? What stadium? Do you build your own stadium? What players do you want to acquire for your team (I know everyone will say Tymrak. But who else?). Well, here is my team. Now all I have to do is win the lottery. Team Name: Grass Green FC Location: Cary, North Carolina Team Colors: Green Grass shade, Deep Carolina Blue, Dark Shiny Silver Team Fight Song: "Smell the Fresh Cut Grass" (yes, we have a band playing a fight song) Team Chant: Care oh Line uh. Care oh Line uh. Stadium: WakeMed Soccer Park (Cary, North Carolina) Picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/SASSoccerPark2.jpg Team Mascot: "Doink" the Grass-toe-Naut (looks like an Astronaut, but the costume is made of grass) Team Cheerleaders: Sexy 22-26 year old post-graduate women (former cheerleaders) in Grass-Skirts Team Slogan: "Women of Beast Mode" Salary Cap: $300,000 (I'd be able to use my political abilities and get this raised another hundred-thou) Four team captains would be elected every year (Quad-Captaincy): One forward, One midfielder, One defender, and One goalkeeper (selected annually by player votes) As far as players I would target to acquire (they'd look good wearing the shade of Green Grass): - Lotta Schelin - Caroline Miller - Erika Tymrak - Sarah Huffman - Kim Little - Kendall Fletcher - Camille Levin - Melinda Mercado - Carrie Dew - Kaley Fountain - Bianca Henninger - Victoria DiMartino - Hayley Brock (speed, speed, speed) - Casey Loyd - Jordan Angeli - Chelsea Stewart - Jazmyne Avant - Niki Cross - Kristi Eveland - Aubrey Bledsoe Team Colors:
Wow! Hard exercise here, and I'm not sure it'll really accomplish much, but it's interesting nonetheless. Team Name: Not sure. Name the Team contest will help pick name. Location: San Diego Team Colors: medium blue, yellow, white Team Sponsor (my addition): Sony Online Entertainment https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Sony_Online_Entertainment_Logo.png Team Fight Song: No clue. Not into that stuff. A good mix tape will suffice. Maybe with The Fitness, Black Eyed Peas, The Naked and The Famous, and others. Team Chant: up to supporters. Stadium: USD Torero Stadium Picture: http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/usd/nonsport/torero-stad-soccer-lg.jpg Team Cheerleaders: maybe? What's NWSL's history with cheerleaders? Salary Cap: not my choice, really. Right, NWSL? Possible players: (total wish list without regard to current contracts, potential gelling, or much else) Angie Woznuk-Kerr Rachel Buehler Stephanie Ochs Caroline Seger Veronica Perez McCall Zerboni others
This is fun. I don't think $50 million is enough, though. Team Name: CD Los Angeles (people can come up with their own nickname) Location: Los Angeles, CA Team Colors: Purple and Gold Team Fight Song: None, we're not a college Team Chant: Whatever fans come up with. Stadium: Either Drake Stadium (UCLA) or Weingart Stadium (East Los Angeles College) to start, but I'd want to build a 10,000 seater (expandable to 18,000 if a MLS team wants to play there) downtown (which is why more than $50 million would be needed). Team Mascot: None Team Cheerleaders: None Team Slogan: I dunno, I'll leave that to the marketing people Salary Cap: Whatever NWSL regulations say Captain: Just one captain, voted by team Players I would target to acquire: Anyone with an LA connection: Morgan, Leroux (Sydney is living in LA in the offseason, btw), Press, Ali Riley, Cheney (Holiday), and Whitney Engen are some I can think of off the top of my head. Maybe I'd take a flyer on Zakiya Bywaters. And if I could, I'd take Cecilia Santiago and let her start. Maybe get Anna Picarelli as a backup. Speaking of Pali Blues, I'd also try to pick up Sasha Andrews, Ashley Nick (if SBFC doesn't keep her), Elizabeth Eddy, and Ashley Freyer (there's some other Pali players I'd like, but they're juniors or below in college). Hopefully both Nacional Tijuana and I win the lottery, as LA and SD would be a great rivalry.
I asked this subject to the NJ man who was one of three winners of the $411M Powerball lottery in early Aug. He took the after tax $62M lump sum payment. He politely said No, but then added "what and lose my money for years like those Sky Blue guys?"
This thread clearly isn't meant to be about being realistic. Have some imagination. Where would you put a team if you could own one since NJ is already taken?
Could you imagine the heated RIVALRIES in this league? These rivalries are brutal: Portland vs. Seattle Chicago vs. FCKC (black & blue midwest rivalry) L.A. vs. San Diego Sky Blue vs. Grass Green The list could go on and on .... Columbus vs. FC Indiana Boston vs. Hope Solo Portland vs. FCKC Sky Blue vs. WNY Portland vs. L.A. Grass Green vs. Washington
Yes, this would make a great jersey sponsor. Good catch. We should submit this to the league ... and to Cool Text. This would look really sweet on Vancouver's kits in 2015 ..........
Now that Houston is in I would look to another Texas city, San Antonio. HOME FIELD Toyota park. I would want to meet with Spurs SnE to form a partnership. Starting with a 50-50 parnership proposal. with me hitting the lottery I would have the start up costs covered in this scenerio but for the long run being part of SnE would be the best way to keep financially stable in the long run. Joining the Spurs SnE would be to link myself with the Brand and the Iconic Black an SIlver colors. Team name be tied with the Silver Stars with the help of partnership with SnE bring Womens sports to another level with the WNBA and NWSL franchises. SHOOTING STARS SOCCER STARS TEXAS STARS SILVER STREAK.
I know I'm raising the dead here with this thread, but this looks super fun. Team Name: Valkyrie SC Location: St. Paul, MN Team Colors: Purple primary, blue secondary Team Fight Song: "Purple Rain". I mean, what else for MN? (Maybe I should have just gone with an Erotic City SC scheme...) Stadium: Either the Saints stadium in Lowertown (upscale hipster area downtown with farmer's market and the gorgeous main train depot) or the not-yet-build Midway MLS stadium. Team Mascot: A valkyrie figure, obviously. Let's name her Brynhild, maybe? Team Cheerleaders: Probably somewhere between being TechnoViking.jpg and Minneapolis-sound funk imagery. I think a women's team should have male cheerleaders. Team Slogan: I feel like I'd want to pull a quote straight from the sagas here. As far as players I would target to acquire: Thematically, it might make sense to hire our foreign assets out of the Nordic world (Brynjarsdottir, Nadim, et al), and Kallman's a local, she'd be perfect in that regard.
Hartford Hearts, because Hartford seems to build free stadiums to whoever asks, and women's sports are relatively popular in Connecticut. There was a plan for a NWSL team in Dillon stadium next to downtown Hartford, I think it would've been pretty successful, but it didn't work out. Colors, I guess I would leave that to marketing people. My personal favorites in all sports are green/white jerseys. Also I like pink / black combo, like Palermo from Serie A. I guess pink/black or red/black might make more sense with a name like 'Hearts.'
I'll pick just my eleven players~~~and not to go with the most obvious and show there's still a lot of talent out there, nobody that played in the quarter, semi or finals of the WC! fwd.....Davison(ENG)........Hegerberg(NOR).......Hansen(NOR) md.....Tymrak(KC).............Ji(Kor)......................Little(SCO) df....Schnaderbeck(AUS)...Kallerman(BOS)..Van Der Gert(HOL)..Robinson(KC) gk..................................Naylor(NZ) 3 subs would most likely use, Freels(SkyBlue), Mead(ENG) Riley(NZ)