NASL is no longer considering suing US Soccer for anti-trust over division 1 status

So exactly whatever happened to Onionsack, Amerisnob, Mr Smartypants, Deacon and all the other know-it-alls who were certain the f.cosmos were going to bring MLS to its knees?

Just goes to show you can't believe every conversation between court room security guards you overhear or all those ManU, Liverpool, Chelsea fans et al throughout the NYC metro-area who swore they were all aboard the Cosmos train (they must have gotten off at the wrong station, because they sure as hell never made it out to Uniondale).

 

For example see:
http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/nasl-a-real-threat-to-mls.1989200/

 

Court room security guard! I remember that one...that was real, right!?

Wasn't there an actual barber shop one also?

Ah...good times.

 

The internet at it's worst.

It can be like that vortex which sucked Nash into medieval times to face the Army of Darkness.

Klatu verata nnnn....nickel. You should know better, just like you should remember the words, but you let the evil out.

 

The court room was a real one indeed.

I'm not sure about the barber shop (wouldn't surprise me the least if he posted something like that), but there were a couple times where he tried to convince everyone he had connections to people in high places at MLS who would bemoan over after work cocktails the league ever got involved with NYCFC.

 

It may not have been barbershop, but I recall something hilariously sitcom like also. Fun stuff, and they were so damn aggressive and adamant. I can't help but make the comparison again, but exactly the types JK feasted on.

All that guerrilla marketing and teenagers sticking Cosmos stickers everywhere. The unlimited Arab money. RB not letting NYC use their stadium because they would be outdrawn and embarrassed. Good, good times. I may have to grab a drink this weekend and go back and read.

 

That guy in the NASL news thread today...whose name begins with w...reminded me 100 percent of Onionsack trying to be calm TBH. I wouldn't be shocked if it's him.

 

Ash, Housewares

Hail to the King, Baby

 

A year AFTER they started playing I noticed the marketing push that NYCFC started and stated on the Cosmos forums that they needed to pick up their marketing in the city or NYCFC was going to take over (which they ended up doing) I got blasted as a "bot" and "hater" and eventually banned from the Cosmos forums. The team really lost hope the second NYCFC became the premier team in NYC proper, after that there wasn't enough Raul's in the world to help them. Funny story, the Cosmos sent some college marketing interns to the NYCFC home opener trying to get fans to their home opener! They were not well received to say the least.

 

Their guerrilla marketing tactics were excellent. The amount of publicity they were able to generate was pretty impressive. In that department they were top notch.

 

Was it really? I'm not so sure it went any deeper then the hardcore fans who thought it was "cool". They never really reached the casuals and never connected with many in the city (due to distance of stadia and lack of public transit) which was my initial concern. All valid but in the Cosmos fan boy world bring up valid concerns is a trolling action.

 

They were even annoying around here when Pinton still owned the name.

 

They got some pretty good ink from all the majors by piggy backing.

For what they were they did a very good job IMO.

 

The biggest issue for pro/rel in the US was, and still is, the number of large markets. There are as many metro areas of 2 million or more in the US as there are in the EU. Tell a TV executive that they have a chance of teams being relegated so that nobody is playing in NY and/or LA and you'll either have no coverage or a contract where the money dries up the moment those cities are gone.

A close second is the reality of franchises vs clubs. Everything else is tertiary.

 

Yeah, I wonder where that survey reported in the Economist was taken. A British pub?

 

I think that if Cosmos was going to catch momentum in NASL it was during the first year. I remember there were lots of fans that year and the relaunched Cosmos were on ny sports cable tv (i think it was SNY?) As soon as they didn't renew with SNY and let the tv coverage switch to 1 World Sports the team fell off the radar of many potential fans in the nyc area because the team was no longer easily found on tv.

 

I don't get why Ted Westervelt is calling the initial exploratory talk between Garber and Cincy FC "evidence of corruption at the highest levels." He is also going on about the possibility of "tainted promotion." If Garber is interested and if Cincy is able to meet league requirements to join how is that corrupt? Anyway it's far too early to even talk about promotion. This is nothing more than a get to know you conversation. For all we know it may have lasted 5 minutes.

 

They haven't. They're jumping ship and are done with the American game. I guess they'll go back to supporting teams that'll never get relegated.

 

This is a big one. Most countries tend to have few enough big cities that the largest cities will typically have multiple clubs in the top division at any time.

The only exception is China, but there, the pro/rel pyramid developed mostly when soccer was only popular in the former Manchuria and a few of the more cosmopolitan cities outside that region.

 

Here we go--back to Euro gloryhunting with Man U, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Barca, Real, Juventus, and Bayern !

 

Fixed your post

 

Ted Westervelt is the Alex Jones of American soccer.

If there's a conspiracy to be seen, he's hallucinating it.

 

This can't be true, right?

here's a screenshot: pic.twitter.com/7pwSRyip5a

— Matthew Cox (@UnSub_Matt) November 29, 2016

 

Yeah, that's certainly a good reason. But also related to country size.