Robert Duvall or Will Ferrell? Context is necessary. Even since my son realized he could kick and not fall over, he's had a ball of some kind at his feet. Ever since he learned the word "Down", he's been telling me to lay down on the floor, so he could kick balls at me. (Must be laying down. Not allowed to sit up, otherwise he'll come over and push my shoulder and point to the floor saying, "Down! Down!") I'm hoping kid number two can stand in for me when it gets a little older because laying on the floor is not comfortable. Maybe my son will be a left back since he only kicks with his left, and the other kid will be a keeper.
Well, my son recognizes the Union logo, so whenever he sees it, he shouts "Nin-yin!" Luckily, most Union games start around his bedtime, so he's never really subjected to the Union.
My wife's step-sister is also pregnant, and she and her husband had this gender reveal thing (don't get me started on this nonsense), and they found it out the sex, and now it's just waiting for 5 more months for the baby to come. And there's a lot of excitement in that, but there was so much more excitement to not knowing. Spending all of your time trying to figure out what it might be, thinking about all the stuff you're going to do if it's a boy or a girl, trying to guess what it might be based on certain traits the woman is displaying with her pregnancy. All of that stuff would just go out the window if we found out. We really wanted to know, but it's a lot like Christmas. If you knew what you were getting for Christmas in June, all you'd be doing is counting the days to getting the gift, knowing what it would be, no matter how awesome. Not knowing is like waking up on Christmas morning to that awesome surprise you spent trying to figure out for 9 months. Or something like that.
Doubly so if they have an EPL team but no MLS team (unless you move to England during their childhood).
This is a-OK if you live more than 3 hours from an MLS team. At that point, every club is just one you watch on TV.
It's a lot more than you'd think - it's where I was as a kid. 3:35 to RBA, 3:47 to Chester, 4:07 to Toronto, according to Google Maps right now. Though yeah, if someone else wants to throw that map together, I'd be really interested in it.
Just curious, when you were a kid what other sports teams did you end up being a fan off in a "dead zone" so to speak?
I copied my dad, who also grew up in Upstate New York. Yankees, Knicks, Rangers, Cowboys (his dad was in the Navy, so was Roger Staubach). I've grown out of all of those except the Yankees, because 1) they were far more present in my day-to-day life than the others and 2) my childhood vacations, much to my mom's chagrin, were based around Yankees road trips.
We adopted Real Salt Lake here on the Palouse because they were only eleven hours away, as opposed to San Jose when they were closest (15 hours). A "single" day's drive. Now we have Seattle 4.5 hours away, Portland 5.5 hours away, and Vancouver 7 hours away - but we already committed.
Some what related to what we were discussing Closest team to each county/province. https://imgur.com/a/J27CY from here https://www.reddit.com/r/MLS/comments/815g8z/mls_fan_map_2018/?st=je9zyt10&sh=f16e8a5a