I think team naming conventions are also quite different than whether someone says field or pitch, shirt or jersey, cleats or boots, and even crest or logo.
View attachment 162733 This happened??? Guess I didn’t notice. Was it mainly Laughlame? I don’t recall Dwight and Neil doing so on broadcasts.
I agree 100% Theres a huge difference between doing things out of a desire to slavishly ape the way things are done in Europe and following conventions which are universal to the sport.
While we’re on the subject of naming conventions and eurosnobbery, can we all agree that the new stadium should NOT be named something like Crew Arena??This is not Europe (or Harrison, NJ); this is the midwest, where arenas are for basketball and hockey in the wintertime!
Hopefully the name will have a sponsor by the time it comes around to that - but I've always liked "Crew Stadium"
The guy who owns the Bang Brothers website made an apparently legitimate offer.for the naming rights to the new stadium in Miami. It was pretty low ( $10 million or so) and had zero chance of being accepted even.if it.had been.bigger, but the thought of Beckhams team taking the field at Bang Brothers Stadium just warms the heart
Reminds me of the push to have the owner of the Lions Den video chain, who lives in Columbus, become the Crew shirt sponsor. Someone even dummied up a shirt design, which I cant find now Classic.
Some will complain if a MLS team's branding looks "too American", ie, lifted from the big-four sports. "MLS 1.0 logos..." Others will complain if it looks "too European." "Lol Real FC City United 96!" What a fresh take... Some want a third logo in less than 6 years. Some think this is required to erase the history of the Snake. As if he's the guy that drew it up (reports are it was done in-house by people who actually cared about the team). I'm convinced that if you change all of those things, it won't stop your complaining. You'll have a new set of things to complain about, and then THREE logos to debate about instead of two. I'm also convinced this doesn't drastically affect team performance. Or attendance. Or corporate sponsorship. In fact, changing things again could make the franchise look like a schizophrenic, floundering mess that the ownership is desperately trying to salvage. Isn't that the narrative #SaveTheCrew was fighting against? Keep to logo. Keep the name.
I don't think anyone had a problem with MLS 1.0 names being American, except for Eurosnobs, Anglophiles, Canadians, and the like. That said, it's hard to believe names like Kansas City Wiz and Dallas Burn got green lights.
New England can probably hold on to Bruce for a while if they can finally get a new stadium built in Boston and call it Bruce Arena.
I personally dont hate all the European ripoff names. I'm not a particular fan of any of them but they mostly dont bother me, besides Real Salt Lake which sounds ridiculous to me. I think I'm one of the few people who actually likes the name Inter Miami that I've come across. With that said, I'm an opponent of us changing much. Black and yellow colors are off limits and non-negotiable for me. I wouldn't be mad if they changed the logo but I really dont see any need when the current one was so well recieved. Maybe you just touch it up a bit if the name is altered but thats it. I do like the idea of using the state of Ohio for a crest though, but probably just as an alternate one. Could we trademark using the shape of the state of Ohio for soccer/MLS purposes just to stake our claim against Cincinnati? When it comes to the name, I dont think theres anything you can change short of removing "Crew" and maybe using "96". Nothing else though. SC doesnt bother me, I can take it or leave it as long as I'm not slapped cross the face with it constantly. The biggest change to the name that I could still possibly come to terms with and stomach is Columbus 96. It would kind of be like throwing a bone to Eurosnobs with the German style year in the name (Schalke 04, Hannover 96, etc) but is obviously relevant to the team. Fans would still call them the Crew anyway.
According to Ray Hudson, that's Cristiano Ronaldo, a.k.a. The Dark Invader. Those "doughnuts" are MLS Cup rings he will win when he descends from the heavens in his football spacecraft and blesses us with his magisterial presence.
"Unlike counterparts in England, Spain or Italy, German clubs have a knack of adorning their date of foundation with great importance. They treat their foundation date with such reverence that it almost always forms a part of the official club name – 1860 Munich, Schalke 04, Bayer 04 (Leverkusen), Mainz 05, BVB 09 (Dortmund), Hannover 96. Many more at least carry the dates in their club badge, like Bochum, Düsseldorf, St. Pauli or Duisburg do. VfB Stuttgart’s logo read ’1893′ but not ‘Stuttgart’ until 1999. These dates mark an important era of the beginning of football in Germany." From: http://bombaybavarian.blogspot.com/2011/07/story-behind-german-club-names.html If the choice was to have 96, FC or SC in the title I would pick 96 every time. I found it interesting that Stuttgart had their inception date on their crest but not their name. You are right American teams don't include dates in their titles or badges. But I don't think it is forced or meaningless to include the date. MLS is always half @SS assigning Euro trends to american clubs, I think adding a date would be the least of the Euro infractions we as fans have had to suffer.