As I knew, he was as never coming here. I don’t have to eat excrement after all. https://www.standaard.be/sport/kevi...-aan-italiaanse-kampioen-napoli/68646544.html
This makes me unreasonably angry. I know it's just a social media post congratulating themselves for selling a lot of $1 hot dogs, but the team got stomped and they are "celebrating" this sort of trash.
I remember years ago going to a meet the coach event with Ben Olsen at RFK. We were just sitting in the stands talking as a group and Olsen asked, "did they feed you any of those gray RFK hot dogs tonight?"
Is this ad for real or is someone trolling the team? Brilliant if trolling; otherwise I am w Wrym, its embarrassing.
(3) D.C. United on X: "Another one☝️ https://t.co/BUBB9HqnQY" / X Another one☝️ pic.twitter.com/BUBB9HqnQY— D.C. United (@dcunited) May 25, 2025 Shortly before the game was concluded, the official team account posted that.
This is the jump the shark moment for me. I’m well behind many in this group, but this is beyond pathetic on every level. I get no discount over face value on season tickets and cannot comprehend giving an organization who posts about hot dog sales immediately after a loss to a rival any more money.
It's so bad, I have to think some staffer at DC United did this to purposefully embarrass the ownership. Because if this was something they discussed and agreed was a good idea, there is some serious rot in that organization. So it's just GOT to be an internal FU. Of course, that's still bad. But not as bad if it wasn't.
I believe you are overthinking this. The FO - paid staff - is comprised of sports marketing types with no understanding of soccer culture and no sense of DCU history. The media post surely was put out by some intern with even less institutional knowledge than that. From these bozos perspective, posting that makes perfect sense because it shows the FO "won" the $1 hot dog promotion. That's all they care about. The actual competition simply is an ancillary vehicle for promotions and concessions revenue. Stop thinking that anyone in the FO gives two shits about the on field product -- they don't.
To them DC United is an entertainment product no different from a concert or a circus. Their thinking is that once in awhile fan is the one you have to market to. The problem with that thinking is that if the club will have to market to these people all the time if the club is just a product. Of course season ticket holders are just suckers.
The FO "might" notice if the STHs all dropped them. They much be hurting because I got the invite to the AV Lounge spiel and I haven't had season tickets for two seasons. ******** 'em.
What you're saying makes sense. I was more hoping the first thing I said was true (I kind of like he subversiveness of that.) But what you're saying makes it sound like the second thing - serious rot. That's just my shorthand for an organization that has lost its way.
The best analogy is minor league baseball. Very few, at least in this area, have any sort of deep loyalty to such a team so these sort of promotions. Isn’t there some promotion where monkeys race each other around a field on the backs of dogs?
True story -- at the 2014 US Grand Prix in Austin, the featured entertainment was "Rascal, the Cowboy Monkey" complete with toy guns and a saddle on a dog. The other half of the bill was Kid Rock -- the monkey was both more entertaining and smarter.