What was the board that the CBus people used..or were the main posters? I remember starting there but can't for the life of me recall. Then I just read BigSoccer for a couple of years off and on before signing on in 2005...
That is awesome. Would be so cool to see some the hard core fans from the past get reengaged by the actions of the team.
I attended a Lady Gaga dress rehersal this year, but that doesn't mean that I'm too pleased letting the kids listen to Lil' Wayne on the chariot radio on a regular basis.
The reason why they are "hard core fans from the past," and are not hard core fans from the present, just might be down to "the actions of the team."
Au contraire! Indeed things have changed a great deal since the last period when the Revs absolutely sucked to this degree. For starters, unlike now, back then there was hope that the team could and would get better. There was also a genuine buzz about the team, real interest. The two Boston daily papers, plus the ProJo gave the team decent coverage - not at the level of the other 4 teams, but a reasonable level. There were always post-game stories, usually a preview story and quite often features on players. Fran Dell'Apa even went to training camp with them in Modena Italy, and wrote daily stories that would weave team news together with Italian soccer culture nuances the way that only Frank can. He also traveled to Brazil when they had training camp there another year. Now? The team could die and no one would notice, outside a few hundered yahoos like us who would feel like slitting our wrists, but would think twice before going through with it. Most people in the mainstream would say either "Gee, that's too bad..." or "The Revolution? Who are they?" Media "Pundits" like Bob Ryan would blame it on the fans, giving Krafty a free pass, not being able to connect the dots that the steep decline in attendance was not due to this "not being a good soccer market," but the overal philosophy of the ownership. As for a stadium, back then we were in the Boro, and when the Patriots moved to Hartford, it would have been all ours. Yes, it was a dump, but a Rev-only Foxboro Stadium would have been a much better place to watch a game (despite the well-documented drawbacks) than cold, empty cavernous turf-laden Gillette. Funny story: When the Southie plans for the Pats fell through, I asked Jonathan if they were considering other locales for the new Pats stadium, like Providence, maybe Wista, or even, say, I dunno, Hartford. He barked back at me that he would not, under any circumstances, discuss any stadium plans whatsoever, although he'd be happy to discuss the team (of course the "team" was not the Revs, even though this was at a Revs game). It turned out that once the timeline came out about when they were negotiating the Hartford deal, the day of this conversation was right in the midst of it. He must have been thinking "Who the HELL is this guy, and how can he possibly know something only me and my father and the lawyers know? If this leaks out, I'm gonna kill someone!" In truth, it was just a random guess, but if I could push his buttons liek that with just a mere mention of the Insurance Capital Of The World....
The internet is for young people, old timers! I don't even know how you figure out these new "Forums". It's like facebook and Google Wave had a baby[!] But seriously, it's fun to listen to y'all reminisce about the olde tymes. It makes me feel like there's an actual history to this Club
Indeed. I would add: incompetence, miscalculations, and inflexibility. This is the start of a new snark-fest, off season "Rev History" thread. Oh boy. Doc, rkupp, others, for health reasons, I'd advise you to not read.
he is alive and well. He still follows the Nats but does not really pay close attention to MLS any more.
Don't worry about this old dog. Being a Shrink I'm used to listening to irrational and delusional blather. I may be old but I'm not too old to remember the years when there were many posters on this Board who actually could string together two positive posts in a row and most posters where proud of being Rev fans. Of course that was until the NNN constant harping and bitching drove them either into silence or from reading this Board out of concern for their sanity. I stay around because these discussions remind me of group sessions on the locked ward at a State Mental Hospital.
Well based on results, the inmates have been running this asylum for awhile. There is a noticeable lack of Koolaid at the asylum mess hall. Here is the formula for determining your inmate number: [# of years a Rev fan][year you were born]. I am #161981. PS - Doc, I may be inmate #161981 but I am well aware of the irony of me advising a decorated former military Psychiatrist to stay away from the board for his health haha.
I was General Surgeon (among other things as you know) when I was in the Military. It was when I got out and saw how screwed up the civilian world was that I decided to switch to being a Shrink.
We did, for a while. REALLY good guys at MatchNight, even if they were Crew fans. And the REALLY old fans might remember that we were first part of Rivals.com, which represented the only money Tony and I ever made off the site. Of course, paying numbskulls like the two of us might have been why Rivals.com eventually declared bankruptcy.