The uniforms for the new WPS teams were unveiled and one of them stole a couple of our colors. Or close anyway. The NY/NJ Sky Blue are wearing orange and light blue. No idea what is going on with the skirt. Some of the teams seem to have them. Reading a bit more I guess that wraparound skirt is removable with the shorts under it. They will not be playing in it. Puma has the contract for the WPS kits. The season starts on March 29. Dallas' team will not start until 2010.
Re: [NDR] WPS team in orange and space city blue I like the all orange and blue. Dynamo could learn something...
Re: [NDR] WPS team in orange and space city blue Christian Siriano? I wonder what he designed. Edit: Oh, none of these, thank goodness. Those uniforms look so...bland. The skorts need to be burned. But I like the socks. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XawS9b2guss"]YouTube - PUMA and WPS uniform unveiling[/ame]
Re: [NDR] WPS team in orange and space city blue The skorts come off (they are attached to the shorts) and will not be worn in games.
Re: [NDR] WPS team in orange and space city blue orange and blue is NYC's original colors, so good for them. Those kits sure look a lot better than MLS' debut ones in '96
Re: [NDR] WPS team in orange and space city blue True. I'd rather they be simple. And since I'm determined to show off the socks, here ya go:
palbra..where are the booty huggin shorts? oh and thats not space city blue. now the chicago kitts are off the hook
Amen...even if they are a rip-off of an old Chicago Fire jersey. And I really like the light-blue jersey for NY. Think the Dynamo will ever get us one of those?
Heather Mitts is assigned to the Boston Breakers. Hope Solo is with Saint Louis Athletica. There may be some moving around before the season starts.
This league is not going to work. It has a better chance than WUSA due to the realistic salaries, but the timing is all wrong. Travel concerns me-too much $$$ just going from Boston to St. Louis. Just bad timing with this thing launching as the economy is tanking. MLL contracted 4 teams-including AEG's LA Riptide-citing travel costs going coast to coast and the hurting economy, and those guys were only making 10K a year. I hope I am wrong, but this just doesn't seem like it's going to work.
am i a jack-ass becuase i dislike women's soccer? or am i just a jack-ass? .....and don't give me that "these girls can run circle around you" argument. i know they can, but still doesn't make it a good quality product. someone please let me know i'm not alone. anybody? westside? bueller?
Nah it's not just you. For whatever reason, women's sports leagues just don't do well here. Mostly because it comes off as inferior to the men's version of the same sport. People talk more about what Maria Sharapova (sic?) is wearing or how Ana Sorenstem (sic?) is holding the penis-shaped trophy than about the individual performances. I'll probably watch as much of this league as I've watched of the last women's soccer league (zero) unless a game happens to be on TV when we're at the Mezz waiting for the Dynamo game to start. I jokingly said earlier that the shorts are too long, but I just don't see anyone coming to these games that didn't take their daughters to soccer practice earlier in the week. Make them like the indoor volleyball shorts and then you'll have something.
That might be true for you, but anybody who has played even low level college soccer would run circles around them. The USWNT practices against elite U15 boys teams and routinely lose. Here is one discussion about a California Boys U16 teams beating Hope Solo and the USWNT 5-1 https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=929075
I enjoy watching some ladies soccer, though certainly not as much as the men's game. And as part of my passing along my passion for the game to my daughter... in addition to playing with her in the yard, signing her up for youth soccer, bringing her to a few Dynamo games per season, and teaching her some of the TA songs... I take her to a couple A&M games every fall and a few of the local high school girls games in the spring so that she'll have something like that to strive for if she grows up loving the game as I much as I hope she does. For me, I think the key to enjoying women's soccer is to enjoy it for what it is... rather than focusing on what it isn't. You know... like enjoying that thick juicy Whataburger with jalapenos and cheese for what it is... rather than being disappointed that it's not a 24 oz. t-bone grilled to about halfway between medium and medium-rare. Of course, if we had a home team to root for it would be easier to get into it as we'd have a little more reason to care emotionally about who wins...