You don't miss a trick, Alan! In other news, it's hard to find a suitable spot in the "urban core" for a stadium. I first heard they were looking in Sommerville where the Home Depot is back around 2005. But I bet NYCFC breaks ground before we do, even if it takes them a while.
Oh yeah, also in this mailbag, our own WeberKing asked about getting Jonathan Kraft on the podcast. This was Wahl Thing's response: "I’ll give it a shot. He’s actually more reachable to a media guy like me than you might expect, and he really does care about his soccer team, judging from some of the conversations I’ve had with him over the years." Now that would be either a "must-listen" or a "throw a bottle at your computer screen" scenario. Maybe I would be sure to listen, and afterwards I would want to do major destruction...
Brian just Tweeted they are 12-24 months from making an announcement that they are 12-24 months from breaking ground!
See, now that's some real progress for ya, cause after all, they've been trying really, really hard, and our fans, the best in MLS I'm told, deserve every crumb 'The Worst Owners in MLS' according to Boston Magazine, are willing to let fall from the table.
I was thinking the exact same thing, about myself, when I noticed you somehow managed to sign up for Big Soccer an entire week before I did. 1. How did that happen? 2. Did you use an acoustic coupler to dial in from your CompuServe account?
Yeah I suggestes having Kraft and perhaps Heaps and Burns to Cathal Conlin the VP of Marketing of the revs, on the revs' own "Far Post" podcast. Naturally, nothing has happened.
A quote yesterday from Mr. Robert Kraft himself "In the end, we’re in a competitive league, and you can’t compete at the highest level if you don’t have a first-rate stadium." Too bad he wasn't talking about his Revolution and was referencing the Oakland move.
OK, I'm going to make someone a lot of money. That needs to be on a T-shirt, so everybody can wear it to a Revs game.
I am biased but I would like to see "adhuc expectans" (forever waiting in Latin) on a banner at the next revs game.
I'm Dan Quayle and I approve this message (I feel obligated to state that Quayle never said that Latin America quote attributed to him, though)
It's no more obscure than the "flag of New England" that many in the Fort wave and the team has adopted. Have you EVER seen that flag before the team/fans adopted it? Not me and I am good with history. If you prefer, they could simply put "Forever waiting" with a revs logo on a banner, if it needs to be spelled out, though that misses the humor.
Having a Latin motto is pretty commonin a lot of places. E Pluribus Unum, Semper Fi, Veritas, etc. Glasgow Rangers had "Aye Ready" which was Glaswegian, but they changed it to just "Ready" a few years ago. Blackburn Roves has "Art et Labour" and there are a bunch of other examples. I once played on a team that had the Latin Phrase "Drinkimus Maximus" on the crest.
With regard to the "New England Flag", I was certainly aware of it as a teenager, (I'm 77 now). As a kid I was involved in drum and bugle corps, (which was a very popular youth activity in the 1950s). My girlfriend at that time marched in a corps' color guard, the Cambridge Caballeros, who were National Champions in 1957. She carried the "Cambridge Flag", which was a stars and stripes with the Union Jack in place of the blue starred canton. The color Guard also carried the "New England Flag". Both of these flags appeared in the American army during the Revolution. Anyone who knew anything about flags, and regional history, sadly not a huge percentage of the population, was aware of these flags, and their connection with the American Revolution. It's a damned handsome flag, too.