Breaking news: Chicago says the fax is broken

So much for taking measures to ensure they could handle the fax load... they had one firggin machine going, LMAO.

 

Sweet thread title. Like the essence of "breaking news" I say. People will one day utter this phrase like the infamous one about Houston...

 

Oh, yeah Taylor How about UPS?

 

Seriously, how hard is it to go to an Office Depot and pick up a new fax?

 

Yeah, but the guy who knows how to plug it in only works thursday afternoons.

 

Saw a lot of people I knew at Kinko's today. Luckily, none of them gave a damn about soccer. Still, I got tired standing around looking clueless. They all wanted to know what I was up to. One guy wrote a whole paper before he left. He shook his head as I just stood there.

 

We will never win a World Cup as long as the amateurs continue to run the United States Soccer Federation.

They are clueless.

 

The amazing thing is that I took a day off for this crap. A day off! Christo! I could have done something enjoyable for all my lost pay, but Noooooo....

 

What worries me is that my fax eventually went through, but with this announcement that the fax was broken, now can I be sure that they actually got it?

 

At some point, USSF has to split between the Youth Brigade and the National Teams

 

Yep. I think that time is here now. Look at the labor dispute.

AYSO coaches should NOT be making decisions that affect the USMNT.

 

If I don't hear


One Fax!
we've only got one fax!
we've only got one fax!
we've only got one fax!

at the next USMNT game, I'ma gonna be reeaaaaaaaaaaaaal disappointed

 

Is this true?

 

Who cares? It's urban legend anyway

(I think it is though)

 

this thread is missing one thing:

 

I was told the same thing by the Fed.

 

I believe that people have been told that, but I also heard from someone at 5:53 that he got through.

 

After attempting to fax all afternoon, I decided to FedEx the damn thing.

You'd think that if they weren't going to accept additional faxes, they'd go ahead and unplug the machine so there wouldn't be any misunderstandings.

Do they not think these things through?

 

unplug the machine...or send and email....or put something on their website...or do something logical. oh yeah, nevermind.

 

I am sofa king pissed right now.

I took the day off too.

Man, I live and die with this team. There are real fans who are dying to go and support the boys over there, no matter how much it costs (and I make sub-food stamp level as a grad student). I scraped by for the last 6 months just so I could afford a flight and a shot at these tickets. And this is how our Fed treats us.

I don't know if I can afford tickets if I can't get them through USSF or FIFA...

 

The little fax machine that couldn't.

 

I'm in the same boat. Other people posted about getting through after 5 PM. Does anyone know when "the" fax machine supposedly broke? After all, we were told not to fax & overnight, at the rsik of double-billing. This sucks.

 

If I remember I will try to get this sung at the game in San Diego.

 

Maybe they just meant "broke" as in "we have a very, very limited capacity." It's another way of saying that item 7 on the FAQ was a total fabrication.

I bet there will be at least one person pissed off enough about this to file a lawsuit.

Really, some official acknowledgment of the problem and suggestions on the website are all I ask for at this point. Of course, it would be nice if they had gotten their ******** together ahead of time.