This is not an April Fool joke. http://www.latimes.com/sports/footb...,1,2748242.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-nfl Not if you are controlling the stadium, their sponsorship deal and their broadcast deal.
Ooh, controversy. <Subliminal message>Buy your Galaxy tickets and prove Vergara wrong.</subliminal message> This Chivas thing is getting boring. I hope the actual rivalry and matches are more exciting than the press build-up.
Galaxy fans are too complacent.... You don't like your FO? Hold a mass protest outside their office.... Bang the big a$s drum untill they give in to your demands, or you reach an acceptable compromise...
Nice provacative article. Good to see someone recognizes that we don't have to fit MLS into a traditional "American" sports box. The game is nternational and MLS needs to do more to leverage that key strenth of the sport. Also, I loved the Pirate or Pioneer talk about Champions World. good stuff.
Great Article Tim Said (2) interesting things: 1.) That teams like Man U. and the other European teams should stop pirating the USA for money. and that they should play MLS teams when they come here during the summer. nice thought, but he didnt criticize US Soccer for taking some of that money while they pimp the US stadiums out to high priced euro teams for absolutely weak soccer product. 8 games - 7 were awful and the only decent game was the last between AC Milan v Man United. besides the fact that attendance and ticket sales were down, and talk is they might not come back. 2.) Chivas v Galaxy rivalry - the comparing it to Lakers vs Clippers - Kings vs Ducks - UCLA vs USC. Well Tim, I see we havent lived in L.A. very long. first off the Lakers vs Clippers rivalry is non-exsistant. Kings vs Ducks rivalry is pretty thin if non-exsistant. But the UCLA vs USC rivalry is very exsistant and draws incredibly large crowds of yuppyish well to do money tossing Trojan fans. and large psuedo westsiders and there Volvo's to mega-venues, Coliseum or RoseBowl. now yet the rivalry is about as heated as somewhat well off white people can make it.... it would take ten chivas and 5 galaxy fans to spend the kinda money that one of these fans will spend for a rivalry event. compare - USC vs UCLA dec 4th - attendance 105000, week long events at both schools and off campus, the highest TV sports rating in los angeles with only the superbowl ahead of that. primetime tv spot. huge ad revenue, ridiculous media coverage. Chivas vs Galaxy, nice sell-out at the HDC. 27000 no pre-game rallies or events. no free-tv coverage of the game (FSW). somewhere behind NHRA drag-racing in LA sports ratings. 7:00pm sat start time, not what you call sports prime-time. miniscule ad revenue, and barely any english coverage from the media, maybe grahm l jones will right about it the next day in the LA times. call tim, he needs to re-think his rivalry analogy.
It's a brave new world of english web-chatter and spanish. It's like the language Olmos speaks in Blade-Runner. Re: the article. . . Yeah, I buy this as much as I buy the idea that Sampson was brought in mid-season because Sigi's football wasn't entertaining enough. Oooohh, great, I'm really scared. Chivas is going to what. . up our attendance four times a year? Take all of our fans away? Maybe a few of the ones that don't care all that much about being a fan, but we'll still pull 21K a match. Re: NYR Metros' post. Bite me. LA Fans are complacent? No, we just have a stadium. Our biggest outrage this year was them replacing our coach that most of us didn't like anyway. If we had your completely retarded FO, maybe we'd be more "up in arms". It's LA, for chrissakes. Even if our team sucks, the weather is good enough for us to go play a game afterwards.
Personally I thought the article was pretty good. He seems to understand what I have been thinking since watching the game in this country, stop trying to reinvent the wheel, it is the biggest sport in the world and does not need to be complicated. Keep working on developing home grown talent and fall in line with the way the rest of the world does it and it will be fine. As far as the champions series goes I feel teams like Man Utd, AC Milan etc should play MLS teams regardless of the probable results it would be great for the fans and growth of the sport. At the moment it is an insult for these teams to come over here and totally snub MLS. I watched what was basically a reserve Man Utd team wipe the floor with Club America last year at the Coliseum so how would playing the Galaxy be any worse. With regards to Chivas etc they are no better than MLS teams so I see no problem with them entering the league next season, in fact bring them and their arrogant owner in for a good ass kicking.
The world is coming to an end. I just agreed with a Dizzie -- completely -- without reservations. PS. Congratulations, you miserable &*^%## of $$%$(*(*!! See you and yer 4 Stars next year.
Yeah, he has "4 green square thingies" envy. You haven't noticed his puny "3 green square thingies"??!!!
Totally. Methinks Vergara wants people to support this league period. He's making an investment, why don't you? Yes, I can think of reasons why you wouldn't want to support the Galaxy right now, but come derby time, it should be rocking. And LA fans complacent? Man, I sure didn't see that when Sampson was hired. I saw a bit of passion and anger and even more so when we got knocked out of the playoffs. Okay, maybe not on this forum alone but elsewhere I did.
I wasn't slagging on LA fans being complacent although I did write that. It's MLS fans in general. When's the last time MLS supporters stormed a FO and demanded answers to something? When's the last time MLS supporters pressue forced change? I'm not talking about MLS tinkering with its rules, but change at the team level due to supporters pressure which then fuels media pressure? This is something that all MLS supporters and clubs needs to work on.
Good article. I really liked the part about Leiweke sitting at home drinking whiskey in his boxers shouting "I am President of the Galaxy!"
Chivas...great...isn't this going to turn into a...never mind...I shouldn't say... And I do believe that Galaxy will have more fans then Chivas...Chivas is getting boring...big woopiddy doo! It's just a another way of making more money for those tight wads up in corp. Galaxy is the OG soccer team of LA...Chivas isn't...anyone not down with OG is a faker... lol...sorry...got carried away with the whole "Snoop Dog" thingy anyways... I don't really think that anyone needs to care much about Chivas...it's a stupid idea...and furthermore they'll make even stupider ideas for the team.
Read my mind, Chivas, Like I have said again and again, is appealing to only one nationality, I go to the LA Galaxy games a lot, minorities are harder to come by then when they were playing at the Rose Bowl, this has been confirmed through research, not by me. And the prices aren't getting any lower. I would be laughing to near death, if the Chivas thing blows up in Garber's face. And you are right, the problem about Sigi's firing wasn't him being fired, but rather the time it was done. I.E. Should have been done after last season. Tim L. Reminds me much of Marc Connolly, when he tried to state that the LA Chivas rivalry will be good, he talked about some of the rivalries in international soccer, and when he came to the LA-CD, he sayed it won't be as big as that but . . . Truth of the matter is, MLS is starting to remind me of wrestling, something that was once enjoyable, but is now(haven't watched for nearly a decade i.e. only 18) a soap opera.