They started as the San Jose Sharks of San Francisco. In the Cow Palace (which makes Buck Shaw seem posh).
Lol, another yet NFL story to explain MLS, but, I do agree that there are great rivalries that are not necessarily geography based, yet, there so many that are. Tottenham/Arsenal, Liverpool/Everton, Rome/Lazio, Inter/ACMilan....etc.,etc. As I said earlier. I do predict we will have a rivalry with Sacramento, though it will likely be more of a friendly one. We will see lots of Republic fans coming to Avaya, (likely more than the good showings they have had for Open Cup games here) and I bet a lot of Quakes fans will make the trip up to Sacramento.
Maybe. But to be honest if SF ever got a real team, not some one and done Kezar dweller, I’d be more likely to hate them than a Sac based team.
Yeah, for sure, they are closer than Sacto, and San Jose has always played Robin to San Francisco's Batman.
Rivalry or not this will be ok for the Quakes. It'll give the league a reason to care a little bit more about us and that might help in some way. The problem will be if both teams aspire to mediocrity. I mean we won't be any worse off in that case but it won't help us either.
Kids say the darndest things. Welcome to the Indomitable City.Hope you stay until tomorrow to see what playoff soccer looks like. 😘 https://t.co/OFZRGQRlzq— Sacramento Republic FC (@SacRepublicFC) October 22, 2019
Here is a good example of league favoritism: Would Don Garber relish an LAFC- Galaxy or a Quakes -Republic semifinal?
Will the solar system end with the Sun running out of hydrogen or when the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide?
Saw Mayor Sam Liccardo at the Little Italy street fair last week. I really can't stand him... Why Sacramento's mayor was talking smack to mayors of San Jose, LA
Does it matter what he relishes? Unless it is a hotdog? And isn't relishing either one over the other showing favoritism?
I swear the more they try to hype a rivalry with the Quakes the less inclined I am to even acknowledge they exist. Sacramento wouldn’t even be a thing unless they’d needed a capital that was a neutral site not in the states real rivals (LA or the Bay Area). If not for that Sac would be nothing more than North Stockton.
Source? Sacramento has been the capital of California since 1854, well before LA rivaled anything. The original state capital in 1850 was San Jose (and the Mexican provincial capital was Monterey before that), and I seem to recall reading in the Mercury News several years ago that the original state legislative session in San Jose was spoiled by an especially wet and nasty winter, which turned the (unpaved) roads into muddy quagmires. That supposedly prompted the reconsideration of the capital's location. Why it arrived in Sacramento, as opposed to somewhere else other than San Jose, I'm not sure.
That's the same sentiment a lot of Galaxy fans have toward the Quakes. We definitely make a bigger deal of the rivalry than they do. I think it is great that Sac is pushing a rivalry. I want to see a lot of their fans make the trip to San Jose, and a lot of our fans to Sacramento. Anything that increases the engagement of our fanbase with the team is a good thing.
Sacramento was the center of the Gold Rush and in 1856 was chosen as the western terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad. The railroad would have happened regardless of the capital location, so Sacramento would have been a thing no matter what. The state tried San Jose, Vallejo, and Benicia, but none of them had the infrastructure to make the legislators happy, so they went to the larger and more developed Sacramento, which was the second-largest city. They didn't go to the largest city, San Francisco, because they wanted to be insulated from any possible foreign invasion on the coast.
Sacramento was also the western endpoint for the Pony Express (though that was only in operation for about a year and a half). GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
So to get away from that, they decided to move the state capital to... Sacramento? EDIT: Oops, it appears that @SJTillIDie already beat me to it. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
Figured this belonged here... I'm not sure why so much importance and/or shakeup is being placed in a USL season and or team. As was the case with Cincinnati and Orlando City before them, it’s clear that hardly any players, coaches and staff are held over when going to MLS. I mean maybe a handful of players may stick around but the rest are usually gone. The only conclusion I can think of is they are preparing the club for MLS now as opposed to 2 years from now.