Worst Local Media Coverage of Houston's Most Successful Sports Team: Guess who???

csdynamicfan · Feb 6, 2010

I read this in a free press houston issue last month...finally found it online. Great Read....someone get this girl an award!!!

Worst Local Media Coverage of Houston’s (Currently) Most Successful Sports Team:
HOUSTON DYNAMO

http://www.freepresshouston.com/

If Mike Jones’ Houston Dynamo (Don't Play) is the “official” Houston Dynamo anthem then I nominate Aretha Franklin’s Respect as their “unofficial” anthem. Soccer awareness is strengthening in our city but you would never know judging by the amount of TV and print coverage the Dynamo receives in comparison to our other major sports franchises. This is a particularly jagged pill for soccer fans to swallow since our team is the only team to have won trophies in this decade. What have our other teams accomplished? The Astros…please disperse, nothing to see here. The Texans…do I even need to go there? The Rockets…undeniably the second most successful sports team but is plagued by injuries and a sloppy season thus far.

Since their relocation to H-Town in 2006, the Dynamo has won two back to back MLS Cup championships, made the quarterfinals in 2008 and the semi-finals in 2009. How come the most media coverage the Dynamo can garner is when David Beckham and his perfectly sculpted coif decide to grace our presence at Robertson? Ok, we all know the answer to that question… but it still doesn’t make it right. Also not right is burying front page deserving articles in the back of the Chronicle next to columns about high school sports. And who does a sister have to blow for the Dynamo to receive more than ten seconds of air time on most local TV sports segments? After the Dynamo defeated the Seattle Sounders to advance to the semi-finals, I tuned into the local news for highlights and recaps. Unfortunately for me, I blinked and missed it. Come on Houston, we have a sports team that is hard working, talented and actually wins…. YOU BETTER RECOGNIZE!

To all the haters who will, predictably, opine that no one cares about soccer because it’s low scoring, boring, not a real sport, blah blah blah. Let me save you some time… here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

Anna Garza

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I like the cut of her jib

newboldcity · Feb 7, 2010

I'm with you. The coverage isn't good but it's getting better. More and more are getting onboard behind the Dynamo and soccer. I have been writing to local media for a long time for better coverage. The more the better. The coverage has improved considerably since their first season.

brahmafutbol · Feb 7, 2010

They do better, they almost always cover Dynamo games and events, though usually with just some brief film clip and a voice over. What I would like to see is some post-game interviews, and some pregame coverage also. For big games, some live reports from the stadium would be nice (of course, maybe they do that now, how would I know since I'm always at the stadium? I'm just guessing, since I've never seen live trucks or reporters there.) That's the norm for Rockets, Astros and Texans, it's not too much to ask for the Dynamo also. Cities like Seattle do much more (though in truth, many cities do much less).