Today in Crew History - A Tradition of Excellence

Clarity was not the best. A normal occurance in my conversations. I did, of course mean today, not 2015.

I suck at communicating.

 

I hear PSV is looking for some people for their communications team in Austin. You should apply, I think you have the skillset.

 

Thwop, thwop, thwop.....

 

I don't have a fancy graphic or anything, but On This Day in Crew History (March 5, 2014):

The infamous TV deal with Time Warner Sports was announced.

 

Here's a graphic

 

When I saw hang’s thread had been elevated due to posts, I checked my calendar to see if we were near his birthday.

This month is March, you know.

 

@hangthadj, you are quite the treasure.

 

The feels watching West, Washington, and even a pre-Crew Rusty Pierce! This game saw us lose the first three at home to open the season. Proving that things can always be worse than they are now...

 

You beat me to this post by mere minutes.

Coincidentally, I hung this print in my UA office earlier this morning. My brother, Casey, bought it for me over seventeen years ago. It used to be on display at my house, but then that room became a nursery with a Zelda theme...

 

Why is there not a Post-It note with flames on the old scoreboard?!

 

Repression is a sweet bedfellow.

 

Stream the full opening match here:

https://www.columbuscrewsc.com/post...ums-inaugural-match-may-15-1999?autoplay=true

 

Stream expires at 5pm per Crew twitter, so watch it at work I guess.

 

So much to say about the start of that broadcast.


Some hoke for your day:
https://www.facebook.com/125815419568/posts/10158691468199569?s=186101277&v=e&sfns=mo

 

I was so confused when I was scrolling through some of these highlights. Then realized that back in '99, the MLS game clock counted down !

 

For a number of years afterward, the old shootout clock used to sit under the west stands....

 

Today in 1996... Robert Warzycha signs as the first Discovery Player.

6-4-1996
Robert Warzycha signs as the club's first discovery player.#Crew96 pic.twitter.com/lCLgWvtFpo

— Columbus Crew History ⭐⭐ (@Crew96History) June 4, 2019

 

9.67 Restrictions on owner of professional sports team that uses a tax-supported facility.

No owner of a professional sports team that uses a tax-supported facility for most of its home games and receives financial assistance from the state or a political subdivision thereof shall cease playing most of its home games at the facility and begin playing most of its home games elsewhere unless the owner either:

(A) Enters into an agreement with the political subdivision permitting the team to play most of its home games elsewhere;

(B) Gives the political subdivision in which the facility is located not less than six months' advance notice of the owner's intention to cease playing most of its home games at the facility and, during the six months after such notice, gives the political subdivision or any individual or group of individuals who reside in the area the opportunity to purchase the team.

Effective Date: 06-20-1996 .


http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/gp9.67v1

Sidenotes: I'm reminded of when the CBJ were considering moving (or whatever it was) a couple years ago before they committed to the deal to keep them here. Nationwide obviously has tax money going into it, plus with infrastructure upgrades going back about 20 years with construction... They're staying.

With the Clippers...the county owns the team, so they're obviously not moving. However, I wonder if/how ORC would effect any future change in affiliation.

 

The only law is that official time is kept on the field, right? For the longest time, the Spanish-language TV channels would go 0-45 in the first half...and then 0-45 in the second.

I'd imagine it's easier for stats/booking purposes if the scoreboard clock goes from 0-90, but it doesn't *have* to, AFAIK.