The USA Supporters Section Did Not "Bring It" in the Gold Cup Final

I do not know if the Ex-Seattle AO head still posts here, but I am the AO Seattle Prez who posts on USA Men's folder.

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only asked specifically about CL only because he's been around for a decade and all that, just trying to ask him to relate his experience on this thread. also, he was the guy that dyed a bunch of USA fans hair red for the 2002 games in Korea, well, except for Patfan1.

 

Look..I agree,,wearing MLS gear at a US game isn't cool . But when you come down to it, there isn't enough of us[US Supporters] in the country. We ALL need to stick together. When teams play each other in the MLS..you can go back to hating the person or team

 

Got it I'll shoot him an email to visit this thread.

 

And I'll say this..I do agree with some of the people on here about people running down to the front to be on tv and people caring too much about tailgating. But i still think , not being on the same page supporting wise is the biggest issue we have

 

the Lenin statue is in Fremont.....i once got arrested for passing out drunk next to it.....ah, the George and Dragon

 

way ahead of ya.

Nashville was a blast and a half. Olympic Qualifiers were awesome. Plus long-time poster Haig lives there and we got the grand tour and all that.

 

You keep forgetting Detroit...hosted a game a couple of weeks ago

 

well, Garrett was using the list on this page:

http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/usamen2.html

it hasnt been updated with the 2011 fixtures so Detroit wasn't included, also on that page the first match of the '94 WC is listed as Pontiac, MI.

of course Detroit should be included, but an innocent oversight.

 

The section was way too small as well. It sold out well in advance and that forced people to buy in other sections and there never was a cohesiveness due to sheer size and being surrounded by the opposition. It's high time MORE seats are allocated to the supporter section beforehand, rather than trying to open it up later. I won't go into the whole General Admission thing again, but if the section is large enough, there is no issue with people cramming in coming from other sections of the stadium (i.e. forced to buy elsewhere because the section sold out).

 

Garrett, Ethan.

Did you include Portland in 1997? WCQ against Costa Rica, Ramos with the goal?

 

yup....that was at Civic Stadium (now Jeld-Wen Field). which, by the way, was one of the cooler minor league parks around

 

Birmingham, 1996 Olympics? I think USA-Argentina?

 

This Gold Cup was the first time I'd sat in the supporters section and donated my horrific singing voice to the chorus. Simply put, there really isn't an excuse to not know the words. I mean none of these songs are more than 10 words in total, and by the end of the first twenty minutes anybody with a decent memory should be fully capable of singing them. I'd say that's just an excuse for the issue that somebody else brought up, that some people are just uncomfortable with singing in front of others. In Kansas City I was the only one singing in my section half the time. I was in the section between the Minnesota guys, (real good group there) and the behind the goal group. Half the time my section wasn't singing and I was giving a solo effort, which probably sounded terrible. I doubt they weren't singing because they didn't know the words. I don't think they tried.


And I don't follow MLS, so that isn't really an excuse either.

 

at this point the list has only full internationals......