With 2020 turning out to be one of the most bizarre seasons for FCDB, it dawned on me that this club has, at least one, annual 'facepalm' story. More times than not these are self-inflicted, some times it's just bad luck. In an attempt to prove this out, I recently created a spread sheet and invited a select group of people to submit their remembrances of significant 'facepalm' things that happened in a particular season, dating back to 1996. The idea is to document and prove out that part of this club's odd charm is how we can count of something going off the rails, each season. So, if you have something you'd like to add to the list, please supply it here. State the season it occurred, and describe it as briefly as possible. At this point the sheet has pretty much all the obvious stuff (Southlake, Castillo, Calamari, etc). So I'm here just for something obscure and easily forgotten that would be an entertaining addition. The end result will become a posting over at 3rd Degree. thanks in advance.
Ah, I've got one... The random, season ticket hike of 2016 after a very good attendance year (by our shit standards) in 2015. The whole "puzzle pieces" nonsense.
2008: Fired Morrow after a brief run of bad form, but while still only 3 points out of first place in the west.
The transfer of Hipslop(sp), former T&T gk who used to play for Portsmouth. The Traffic cone signing. The hiring of the bus driver and how he was allowed to fail, but the previous coach wasn't.
Back in 2002, fresh off the dissolving of the Tampa Bay Mutiny, we were supposed to get some dude from them in the contraction draft (or whatever it's called) but he opted to retire rather than join us.