If I don't have better thing to do--than look at other team's forum much less post on them--bring me back to reality. Maybe I'll look at league wide and higher or similar posts but that's it. Nevertheless, their posts (mostly) and PatO picture were cool/good posting!
This moron just attacked me on a private message with this genius post. carella211 BigSoccer Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: 2-0-6! Supporter: Seattle Sounders, AC Milan Foe: Portland, Juventus FC wah wah wah!!!!!! you gynamo "fans" are all the same. sore losers and whiney little babies. you're always complaining "why doesn't anyone like us? wah wah wah!" it's because your team is a disgrace to soccer. from your coach's vulgarity laced insults to our players during the match, to crybel's attacks on montero and lunjberg, you're pathetic. and this isn't anything new for your squad of wannabe gangsters. yet you act like you play "the beautiful game" when instead all your players do is cheat and maul opposing players. then your fans act like you know a thing or two, when you don't know jack shit. you have no history, no tradition, and just don't deserve the team you handed on a silver platter. your pathetic. now go cry to another mod that your ********** is hurt, little baby!! __________________ Portland & Vancouver = Dumb & Dumber!
Ordinarily I'd question posting a private message but that one is just begging to be made public. Hilarious stuff.
I love that first one. It looks like Ianni is proposing. And with the last one, well, that is Passback Pete V-Jay-Jay. Actually, I'd happily give him to the Dynamo if you're interested. I'll trade you for one of those Dynamo car flags... Actually, I thought it was a pretty cleanly played game. Waibel had his little moment of whatever, but overall it seemed ok.
Good job Nigel. I just never understood why we have such a reputation for being "thugs" anyway. We do the same as every other team we play. Or less. And yea Dynamo_Forever, that pm did sound like England66. All the other Seattle posts are basically friendly, then there's this one.
I was thinking of responding to the post above just for the heck of it but when I looked at the poster's profile page and saw that he listed himself as the soccer player he'd most like to meet I just decided nah... I will stick to reading the other Sounders posters who generally do have a clue...
Sorry about that moron... He causes trouble for us Sounders on our other forum too. I hope he doesn't influence your view of us. Clearly the goal was questionable.
the one thing we should all agree on is that Houston vs Seattle was the best game of the week by far...Onstad should win Save of the Week and Ianni should win Goal of the Week...
high of 701!!!!! Geeze- what the hell are you people in Seattle doing!??? Using nuclear power or something. Crikes!!!!! I thought it was starting to warm up when it hit 101 last week here but you guys are the true heat champs. It must be a dry heat though Like those wimps in West Texas
Something has been bugging me since I got back from Seattle. There was something about that game .... I came away thinking "that was the first "Major" MLS game I've ever been to." The game just had a Major League feel to it. I've been trying to figure out why. While I know there are many reasons that contribute to it .. it finally dawned on me about something big that made it feel major league: - No youth soccer. Plenty of kids and family around -- just no 1000 rugrat soccer players in their team uniforms there to line up on the field for the players to march out between and parents to take pictures of. No obvious attempts to bump the attendance by selling 100s if not 1000s of cheap tickets to youth soccer teams. - No kids game set up on the field at half time so that the team can sell tickets to the entire team and their parents.
interesting observation. Would you say overall that it was a more adult crowd as well? Having always been in the supporters sections I never realized just how many of the fans at Dynamo games are families until I promoted the bus trip to the Dallas game and saw a representative sample coming through the gate. Lots of kids. Lots of families.
It was actually pretty good. It works in Seattle with their fan base, obviously would not work here or at a lot of other MLS stadiums. Great atmosphere before and after the game - not in the stadium, but outside in the pubs that are all around the place. I'd like to see us achieve something like that when we build our own stadium downtown, but I'm afraid that we're not going to get that kind of development in that area. Lucky's is a good start though. One other observation, although the good Seattle folks are outstanding fans, they're kinda wimpy boozers. The pubs had pretty much cleared out by the time the USA game was over.
what..The US match was only the halfway mark, UFC 100 was still on tap and the bars where cleared out? that's the weak coast yo! "We like to swang and bang "- 3rd coast
Since the topic of hot weather for pro soccer was brought up by the SSFC folks, what time of day is that Houston vs Seattle kickoff set for on AUGUST 23rd??? Is that the famous one o'clock Sunday Telefutura broadcast slot? Nope just checked the sched and it is a 7:30 kickoff. Dang it Sounders, it will only be 99 degrees at kickoff that night with the air temp down on the field flowing from the heated up concrete stadium a few degrees higher. At least that non goal goal has the capacity to set a new MLS rivalry into motion. One with teeth and one that doesn't need a corporate sponsor.
i have a theory! i remember watching English League games back in the 80s before it was the EPL. those games in those old, traditional stadiums with terraces and roof overhangs gave it a old-school homely feel. you could of dropped a brown leather ball out there and no one would of been able to tell if you were in the 1880s or the 1980s. fast forward to the EPL era with NFL-type concrete behemoths of stadiums with modern-day facilities, top of the line lighting, corporate luxury suites and lazy boy recliners in the bench areas. it kind of loses its soul if you know what i mean. i am in no way slagging Seattle. i think their doing a fantastic job selling tickets, but a NFL stadium such as qwest is cold and corporate. i eventually do want a future when the MLS plays and fills up 50,000+ stadiums week-in and week-out, but something tells me i'm going to miss the coziness of a well-built, homely 20,000 seater.
Right? I was somewhere with a beer in my hand from 3:30pm to 6am, and I'm female. They need some "drink like a Texan and forget to care about the heat" lessons or something. Hey Seattle, y'all are doing it wrong!
Hey, I was drinking 7% beer all morning and forgot to eat. That's the real issue for me. And, in answer to the comment about the pubs clearing out downtown, surprisingly those aren't the bars people go to to watch soccer. If you'd been at Elysian Fields across the street from Qwest you might have seen a lot of people, possibly Sluggers as well. Otherwise, most people headed away from Qwest to places like Fado on the very north end of Pioneer Square, Atlantic Crossing up in Roosevelt, the George and Dragon in Fremont, etc. Downtown really only picks up in the evening.
Donadoni was asked upon return to Serie A to finish out his career, what he thought of MLS after spending two years with Metro. He replied that he loved it because you could look up in the stands and see families sitting together, fathers with their sons and and daughters. No hooligans drinking beer and throwing things at fans. Funny-I guess it's all perspective. but I am with Don-kids playing ball at halftime smells like Minor League to me.
I agree with you. Too bad MLS SSS are not the type of stadium you and I like. MLS's SSS for me are fairly minor league facilities. Qwest feels big league. Then the ball bounces weird ....
Yeah well, the tickets aren't that cheap. In fact I am pretty sure they are close to full price. If you want your team on the field - buy so many tickets. You want to have your team play during half time - buy so many tickets. You want a birthday mention - buy so many tickets. If you have a choir or group sing the national anthem - buy 100 tickets, actual quote. Every time you see those kids out there that is translating into tickets not only for the kids but others because the number of tickets usually well exceeds how many people get to go out on the field. I don't recall all the other quotes but it does impact the number sold for a game and over a season. My family would be there regardless because we are season ticket holders, but I would not underestimate how much they depend on soccer families for attendance. Its unfortunate that it takes away from your "experience" and feel for the game, but I think it is a necessary "evil" at this point. But if you take the long term view a lot of those kids will be tomorrow's adult fans, you have to get them while they are young . . . like any other major sports franchise.