What if this wave of expansion passes, and your city doesn't get a team?

Honestly, that's an amazing idea...

Shoulda thought of that earlier.

 

Nope. I'll still be a Dynamo and Quakes fan (DC will never be "southern"). I may try to start a push for a second USL side in Atlanta, though (probably won't work). If I had the $$$, I'd do it myself.

 

why?

 

Especially cities on the other side of the same state...where a college soccer team draws 2000 people per game...but never mind...

 

This debate is old and tired....come off it.


Anyway if we don't get a team here in Seattle I'll still follow MLS religiously, but I may have to change my team allegiance to a west coast team. I've been a Rapids fan while waiting for an MLS team to come on through, but since the west coast is where I plan on being from here on out I've gotta support west coast sports.

 

Because it is a league that falls under the USSF jurisdiction which is the governing body of soccer in the United States. I would think it would be a goal of Canadian soccer to have their own league. That's why.

 

I can't believe that KC will keep it's team for very long, they're one of the top clubs in all of MLS and they still can't get anybody to see their games... Hopefully they move to Philly, I'm pulling hard for a team to get to Milwaukee and it seems that the only way that's going to happen at the moment is for Philly to get KC instead of an expansion team *crosses fingers*

 

Well MY city - San Antonio - already had their chance and screwed the pooch royally . God, that was a horrible emotional roller coaster and eventual fiasco.

Although in retrospect it's probably good that we didn't get the team. They would have played in the cavernous Alamodome until the people refused to build them a SSS. Then they would have left. It was also a good thing because I think it taught MLS a serious lesson about expansion: "Don't put yourself in a position to get kicked around as a political football in a corrupt city that is NEVER going to build you a stadium."

Oh well, I guess I'll just keep rooting for no one in particular until I move or Austin gets a team in 2024.

 

Wow....sounds just like San Diego....

If you get a team before SD I will root for you guys (my dad is from SA)

BTW....You won't get the Chargers

 

I don't want 'em. As long as we have our Spurs...we're happy. And there's no real risk of anyone taking them from us because nobody seems to like them but us.
But hey, as long as we keep winning championships...

 

I'm a Spurs fan, are you a spurstalk poster?

 

Sports Billy.....go easy on East STL.....we will have to drive through there to get to our new stadium.....

But if the STL doesn't get a team, I will do the following:
-Complain to all the heathen non-soccer fans
-Curse San Jose for getting a second chance
-Cheer the new Philly team
-Curse the Fire for being too close to STL
-Buy more Arsenal stuff
-Curse the Cubs for good measure
-Start eyeing the KC Wizards
-Keep track of the RSL stadium situation
-Start all this up again in 2012

 

No.

But if "Philly, St. Louis, Portland and Atlanta ALL have approved and financed plans for SSS," that would be the equivalent of MLS winning the lotto four times... lol... hmmm.... pick four....

 

Sadly, I go back into the mode I've been in for 12+ years: excited that the U.S. has a healthy domestic league but having difficulty following it when it's not on the local radar. Without local buzz (in papers, radio, TV, people), thanks to Tivo I'm more apt to record and spend 2 hours of my weekend watching Arsenal v. Spurs than Dynamo v. Dallas. My local soccer fan friends talk EPL, Champions League, and international -- not MLS (I carry that flag alone, and feebly, among them).

But with a local team of our own, I think that changes -- and it brings in other casual soccer fans I know who don't follow the world game but want a local team and will go to fewer Cardinals games to see one. (Sorry, I know that wasn't the question, but I'm a bit excited at the prospect of MLS in St. Louis!)

 

GUILTY!

At least until Beckham arrived and I realized SoCal is Southern enough for me

 

The first thing is to continue supporting MLS.

I worry that you'll lose MLS fans in Philly, Seattle, or StL (whichever doesn't get a team).

MLS will eventually be in those three cities, so keep up the support and keep supporting the league.

 

what is local buzz? we surely don't have that in the Bay Area. We get more coverage from New York, and the Central Valley than our own San Jose media.