I don't know why this just now hit me, and I know I'm really late to the discussion, but I just realized that the new schedule for MLS next year decimated Dallas' main rivalries. Houston, Chicago, and Columbus are all in the eastern conference, and these were the most hyped games for the team in terms of rival;, they all even had something to win at the end of the 2 legs. Now that it's only one game for each of them, how do you think things like the brimstone cup will work? Do you think this new schedule is good and fair like it was advertised? Are we now going to have to start a new rivalry with salt lake and Colorado so we can at least have a conference rival?
Los Angeles and Colorado are our Western Conference rivals, and have been for many years. I personally don't consider Colombus to be a rival, they are at a sister club who we dislike on the day of a game, but that is about as far as it goes. IMHO
Your arguments are interesting but you fail to address the question of Chicago and Houston..... Brimstone Cup (not that it is really a competition any longer) is it dead? Houston cannon thingy (I can't actually recall the name of the cannon) is it no longer valid? I say Dallas has 8 new rivalries.... ******** the rest..... P.s. Donovan is gay....
I've never seen or felt a rivalry with LA. Hell Dallas games against RSL and Seattle are more heated than Los Angeles.
Columbus is not a rival. Chicago has always felt like a manufactured rivalry to me. But there is tradtion w/ the Brimstone Cup and it will continue, but just as a 1 and done. Tie and it stays w/ the holders. I don't mind playing LAG, Seattle, Vancouver & Portland multiple times a season as I like the atmosphere they have for away games, LA & Seattle are good and make for great matches and I get to see KC33 when Portland comes to town. The real tragedy is not playing Houston more often. El Capitan is an excellent derby trophy and should have more oomph behind winning it than one match. Plus, there's real rivalry there. We hate Houston and Houstonites (-onians? -ers? -douchenozzles?) hate Dallas.
Wow. How people forget. Anyone who thinks this might want to re-watch the playoff series where Brandon Pollard's leg is snapped be Dema the Butcher. No, not manufactured back in the day.
This is true. I've only been following the team since about '04. My feeling on this is probably similar to how a younger Cowboys fan views the 49ers. I still hate them for The Catch and all the ass-kickings they gave us in the '80s. But SF has been bad so long (till this year) that anyone 25 or under probably only remembers them sucking and doesn't have any animosity built up towards them.
Only playing Chicago once is going to come close to killing the rivalry unfortunately. There's just no one left from either side with animosity. Kind of like Mavs/Kings. There was a few years where that was an enormous game, now it's just another team on the schedule.
Schedule is out: http://www.fcdallas.com/schedule I'll save you the click: all three of our east-coast rivalries are road games. Galaxy and RSL only come to Dallas once each. Thanks, Garber. A fitting schedule for our imminent return to the bottom half of the table.
Agreed about the scheduling sucks for the Houston/Fire games but bottom half of the table? How's that?
One thing that has killed the Dallas-Chicago rivalry is that it isn't a rivalry anymore. It's ritual slaughter. They've won once in Dallas/Southlake/Frisco since the Clinton Administration and in the six times we've played at Toyota Park, we've won five times and drawn once, in 2010. There's a reason why the Brimstone Cup has been in Texas continuously since 2002.
To me one of the crappier home schedules in recent memory. Front loaded, lots of non Saturday games, only 3 games at home after mid August? Give me a break. Yuck. Going to be hard to get any attendence momenteum with this bag of puss. Thanks MLS!
It's like MLS doesn't care about Dallas. It doesn't really help out on how the rest of the league sees the team. Well, there is only one thing that can fix that; We win.
Bingo - I still rate Chicago as a hated rival, just behind Houston, almost exclusively because of this event. In other words, if you have a Burn jersey, you hate Chicago. If not, no biggie, but you probably don't get it.
I took a closer look at the schedule We look at strength of schedule, travel, a chance for a quick start and a 7-game stretch that could decide the season.