DC United @ CD Chivas USA :: April 2, 2005

that's easy just bring those small orange soccer cones that you use for dribbling practice and and tie a rubber band at the bottom and ...bam....you've got your very own OTC hat .....sounded very martha stewart-ish huh?

 

if we do bring a lamb in, the perfect chant to annoy the hell outta chivas would be "mary had a little lamb"...but they may not understand chants ...you know them being spanish-speaking and all

 

The babelfish translation for the spanish version of "Mary had a little lamb" is probably pretty entertaining

But I really don't want to know what babelfish thinks Mary is doing with the lamb

-dave

 

Not saying it's hard, but you'ld need FO support to get most of the stadium to be wearing them.

Though the impact of just the supporters groups doing it would probably be good enough.

-dave

 

Thomas would probably have a good laugh on seeing a bunch of DC supporters sporting OTCs on their heads!

GM

 

I'm in... maybe the wedding will be back on and we'll get to see another drunk bride running the hall in her undies screaming "it's over!"

We better warn Najas we're coming, and make sure Andy isn't in Africa!!

 

Yea ever tried curry goat.Almost like eating a spicy beef stew.

 

"It's the Coach, Stupid"

Or whatever it was the banner said. Might as well welcome Thomas back to coaching the league with something memorable.

 

I say we gotta have both banners.

!negnoR eriF

and

It's the Coach, Stupid

With OTC's all over each of the fan sections.

 

Well, you can count me in for this trip. I had a great time out there. I spent an extra day just relaxing on Monday and man, oh my was that nice.

I think we can pull off good numbers for this. In addition, although it pains me a little to say this, we should get in contact with the galaxitive fans. They already have hatched a plan to get a section of their fans together and heckle the goats. I think it would be an opportunity to coordinate with them to bolster our presence a wee bit (maybe not in our section, per se, but an adjacent one would work).

Anyway, I highly recommend to those that were unable to do the trip to the final to come out for this one and celebrate the champions in style and with purpose. I'm sure there will be great arrangements, etc. I had the best flights on JetBlue: non-stop from Dulles, super convenient at the small and nice Long Beach airport...15 minute drive to the hotel and stadium. For convenience this could have been my easiest flying roadtrip ever.

For this game, with the extra planning opportunity I think we can improve on some of our visual stuff. But we can save that for next year and a different thread.

I almost forgot. A suggestion for the road-trip planners: consider offering separate packages for those that can only do the quick trip and another for those wishing to do a long weekend.

Cheers,
Tim

 

We have to get a plane for this game. We have to let Rongen know that he will never have it easy here again.

Seriously though, this should be a fun one.

 

We looked at this for LA - it is super-expensive unless you know you'll get 15 people (group discount on JetBlue) doing each.

If it's under 15 people, then it would cost the same for someone to buy their own airline ticket, and that's not a situation we want to get in, because everyone wants to set their own schedule as much as possible.

 

Thankfully we have a ton of time for this trip. If people are serious about it we can really show Chivas how the best MLS fans are and set an example.

There would be nothing better for this league than to have a loyal group of Chivas supporters at each of their away games, just look at the improved atmosphere when Metros fans come down to RFK, and the other way around.

 

Wait for Southwest to have another "Friends Fly Free" sale. It would mean flying out of BWI, but 1/2-price tickets would be worth the inconvenience.

 

Another potential positive of this roadtrip, the debut of:



http://chivas.usa.mlsnet.com/MLS/cdc/chivagirls/

I thought they were going to be serious about American soccer?

 

What's not serious about cheerleaders? They have them in the MFL. I'm not at all surprised that a Mexican team coming to MLS would bring cheerleaders too.

 

Another banner:

"Thomas Rongen - The Barry Switzer of MLS"

Or something like

"Rongen : MLS :: Switzer : NFL"

: :: : are the symbols for "is to," right?

 

Goat Hearted!?!

 

Both team and cheerleaders should be "Gringas Chivas".