Spent all of October in Savannah working on the Mayor's race and saw a lot of MLS stuff knocking doors. Saw a Subaru with a Galaxy sticker along with some Euro teams, one house had a SUV with a Sounders tag on the front, there was another with an Orlando magnet, saw my first ATL United magnet, and met a fellow Timbers fan one night down in City Market.
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At Tottenham-West Ham United today, Sky Sports advertised on the side boards that they're "The Official Home of Major League Soccer."
I saw Phil Esposito driving his silver Mercedes on Route 3 this morning, coming down from New Hampshire. If he was an MLS player, this would be big news for this thread.
After watching him eat an underwhelming breakfast that included a bowl of cereal and listening to him call a doctor about the color of urine, he watched him get in his car.
My one and only post about the MLS Cup Final for Portland will be about the Morrison bridge lighting up for the Timbers. Moda Center top left is green too, usually is red for the Blazers. 672577539668238337 is not a valid tweet id
Sitruc is close, but no cigar. It was fairly heavy traffic and I noticed a car in the other lane with a NH plate of "ESPO-7" There seem to be a lot more vanity plates in NH than Mass., so I was thinking that he was maybe a fanboy or something. At one point I drew closer and he was in the next lane, and I looked over. Sure, he's older and doesn't look like he did in his playing days, but he looked close enough to how he looked when he was GM of Tampa. It was definitely him. I guess it depends on the guy, but if it wasn't for the license plate, he would have just looked like a regular older guy around 70 or so. Some ex-athletes might like the attention of being recognized while others prefer to be left alone. In other news, one of my friends from HS went to a Flyers playoff game with Bernie Parent. Sat with him in the luxury box and everything. He met him in front of the arena, and at one point Bernie sees a dad with his kid and went up to him and started a conversation. The kid played for a local youth team, and Bernie told him, "Lemmie tell ya some-ting, kid, ya gudda work 'ard. If you doan work 'ard, you hain never gonna make da Enn-Hatich-Ell, yuh got dat, OK?" The kid's dad was standing there in awe with his jaw dropped because he was old enough to remember him. Then Dave Schultz jumped out from behind the bushes and beat the crap outa the kid!
Saw a Portland Timbers neon sign in a bar on the show Grimm. I knew there was something off about the fanbase there as half of them are probably Wessen.
Grimm is actually filmed in Portland and has Portland Timbers symbols in the background in multiple episodes per season. The actresses went to a game a couple of seasons ago:
Only saw LA and Seattle represented at Disneyland this weekend. Didn't even see that many international jerseys (Chivas, Mexico, and Barca was about it). Though I think half of Seattle decamped to Anaheim this past weekend. I saw more Seahawks gear than soccer and the rest of the NFL combined.
Not MLS, but pretty cool anyway. Friday night after a visit to the eye doctor my daughter wanted to eat lasagna so we went to a Macaroni Grill. Sitting next to us at the bar was an older guy with a Scottish accent and a bunch of Notre Dame gear on. It was Bobby Clark. After looking at ND's website I determined that his eating companion was BJ Craig. Clark was checking his cell phone and mentioned a Paraguay U-20 who wanted to come to the US.
It's a bit macabre but in the PBS footage from last night of the Quintonio LeGrier/Bettie Jones shootings in Chicago, one of the protesters was wearing a Chicago Fire stocking cap.
The perils of ski season are upon me ... Last night a couple of wayward Sounders fans appeared at my gym wearing Emerald City Supporters attire. It's terrible! They'll let anyone into that place.