Ongoing Chivas USA Current News (Coaching Changes, Legal Issues etc...) Thread

Wizards or Blitzz?

 

Wizards is actually a pretty traditional American style sports name. "Wiz", however, was something else altogether.

 

Not anymore as we now have Wiz Khalifa

 

I don't know necessarily if is it a 'dumb" name but yes that team was not the Cosmos, Strikers or Rowdies in terms of popularity or legacy. Then again the worst name was Los Angeles Salsa. I don't know which is worse to be named after a food sauce or sounding like a subsidiary of a liqour brand or mexican soccer team.

 

Angel City sounds dumb just call them LA Angels FC and wait for the lawsuit from the baseball team. Now Anaheim Orange FC would be ok but not Orangemen, that harkens more to Syracuse than Holland.

 

East LA FC!

It is seriously the best name for a second LA team that I've seen. But it'd have to be situated in a stadium that's east of downtown -- or at the very least, east of the 110.

 

There is a young version of Valderamma in the middle top row. Awesome hair on the team

 

I think Angel City FC is the most original and creative so far. LA Angels can't do anything. Angel is a common name, and part of the city name.

No one will confuse the Anaheim Orangemen with Syracuse

 

Holy crap I've been calling for that for awhile. There's gotta be an old baseball park somewhere out there that could be transformed into a unique Portlandesque stadium. Galaxy could be kind of a River Plate type team, whereas East LA could be something like Boca Juniors.

 

Los Tequileros De Los Angeles. Or Los Angeles Tequilas.
Tequila is made in the state of Jalisco.Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco.
Tequila companies could sponsor the team etc.

Think of the Milwaukee 'BREWERS'

 

You do realize that SKC is attempting to be an actual sporting club?
http://www.sportingkc.com/scn/members
Make note of Kansas City Blues Rugby Club and Kansas City Gaelic Athletic Club.

 

I found this article the other day from Philly.com. It discusses a possible senario for Chivas.
http://www.phillysoccerpage.net/2013/11/20/orlando-city-prospects-of-3-conferences-and-chivas-usa/

 

It's more of a hypothetical/opinion piece as the writer is simple musing on what he'd like to see or what could happen. There's no concrete evidence of any of this, and he even points out that Beckham's contract had a clause for an expansion team, and to overlook that, it all hypothetical. This could had just as easily been written by some one here on BS.

Though I do admit I like his ideas for 3 conferences, and I don't say that often.

 

…and I want to believe that, I really do, but every time I hear it all I can think is he said the same thing about SJ. This uncertainty will dog them until they move to their own stadium.

 

Pretty much OT, but do people in KC still use the Wiz nickname from time to time... as in, affectionately? I was reading the report on MLS Cup from the Austrian Press Agency and at one point they threw in "the Wiz" in quotation marks.

And for what it's worth, in the reader comments they were having a field day with the names Real Salt Like and Sporting KC. They seemed to think it was Euro-posing, and they would have found Kansas City Wizards considerably less amusing.

 

I can see merit in the 3 Conference alignment with giving more importance to the regular season, building rivals and controlling travel costs. I can envision a 30 game season with playing each team in your conference twice and the other two conference teams once rotating home and away games every other season. The 3o game Schedule would allow for more weekend games where the money is made. This would also allow for working with the FIFA schedule, US open cup and CCL.

 

I honestly wonder if MLS will ever shorten the season again. They've only reduced the number of games in a season twice, and one of those times was essentially an austerity measure back when the league was on the brink of failing. They haven't cut games since 2007. At this point, it's pretty clear a majority of teams are making money on game day, so there's a real incentive not to reduce the number of home games.

As for the eternal Chivas issue, I like the fact that Garber is being forced to say anything at all. As they saying goes, the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one.

------RM

 

Garber said No to a relocation and No to contraction. Ok , but he never said that they wouldn't rebrand. Tahts what I think he alludes to when he says there is a plan. Rebrand the team. The team would remain in LA and Vegara would continue to be owner but it's be a new name of the team. I would be very happy with that.

 

I don't know why you people put any real meaning in Garber saying Chivas USA won't be moved. I can see no contraction. The league doesn't work that way these days: the team would be moved way, way before it was contracted. But when Garber says the team isn't moving, so what? First, it's not really his call. If the right offer came along, Vergara and the other MLS owners would move the team. And that right offer might very well come along. All Garber is really saying is that right now there are no plans to move the team, and nobody foresees moving the team. That's very likely true. Big deal.

 

Now that we've made it through the 2013 season and surpassed 3500 posts, it's time to put this thread to bed.