Quakes fans... I have heard of a certain big game that happened a couple of years ago...something about a comeback against LA... I have SEARCHED the hole WWW trying to find the video... not luck. Does any one of you have it? It seems that I'm the only Quake fan that hasn't seen that game... PLEASE... respond to this note with tips about how to get a copy... cheers!!!
I've got a tape with the LA, KC, and MLS Cup games from 2003. Shite quality but the tape exists. Actually, I have the entire LA game on DVD, in Spanish. It's on the 2003 DVD.
That game was actually put to DVD. It's a two DVD set titled "WE BELIEVE" - The Story of the 2003 San Jose Earthquakes. One dvd is the game (announced in Spanish) and the other is behind the scenes clips of the 2003 MLS Champion Earthquakes. It's AWESOME!! Not sure where you can find it now. Maybe contact ClubQuake or the Quakes office. OR, maybe someone here can help you find it.
I actually was looking for a copy of the 2003 DVD they released as well. I was stupid and never got around to ordering mine, and then when I tried they were all gone. I've got the games on tape, but I want the good quality Spanish version. I could pay someone for cost and shipping if anyone could burn it for me.
I bought my copy just a couple of months ago at California Custom, in Santa Clara. They had some more copies back then. And I'm pleased to hear that the Spanish commentary is normal; I was thinking my DVD player was busted. Although I wish I could get the English soundtrack somehow.
Airblair. Weren't you a moderator of these forums many years back? Sorry if I'm wrong, but your screen name is very familiar.
Hey all, this is my first post. But to talk about the english commentary for that playoff game against LA, the game wasn't televised I'm pretty sure, because I was following that whole match on the Quakes website, so a few days after that game on FOX Soccer Channel (at that time, Fox Sports World) they replayed the game, but it seemed the commentary was added after the game had already happened, because with such a great comeback, the announcers didn't show much emotion for what was occuring and seemed like they knew what was going to happen. Come on, coming back from 4 goals down? I'm sure the LA announcers even showed emotion, most likely crying and excuse making, but emotion nonetheless. If I'm wrong, please correct me. GO QUAKES!!!!!!!!!!!
you are correct there was a replay with post-live action commentary provided later over Fox Sports World, an "instant clasico" as it were. But there were Spanish & English live versions of the away LA broadcasts for the LA market. Yahoo had a free sign-up for broadcast of MLS games in 2003 which allowed watching games on delay for a week on the computer, and when I returned home that night from Spartan I watched the highlights of the live LA coverage in English. It was quite sweet to hear the silence of the LA announcers during the comeback, including Ricky Davis who also was one of the post-action announcers on the Fox Sports World broadcast. The DVD set, which I own, has the live Spanish coverage, which probably isn't as offensive to us 'quakes fans as either of the English versions with Galaxy announcers.
Yup yup, you're right, I forgot about watching parts of it online and listening to the LA guys. Once we tied the game, you could tell in their voices that the inevitable was near. I don't mind the spanish commentary on the DVD, just the reactions by the crowd tells the story. Even to this day I'm kicking myself for not going to that game.
Way back, in the dark ages. Like 2002. I quit in April of that year because my first child was born and I couldn't devote any time to moderating. Also, soon thereafter Bigsoccer moved to a premium website model (i.e., started charging for priority access) and I'm really cheap. So I basically got frustrated with all the "server is busy, but we'll let you in if you give us money" and took a vacation from posting. And now that they've upgraded the servers and I rarely get the server busy message, I'm posting a lot more often now. But I'm still too cheap to upgrade. (Especially since the wife and I had our second kid two months ago. Gotta save for college . . . )
Thanks! And maybe just in time to turn my back on this league and this sport until the end of my days!
Although I hate to say this, after reading this article I'm affraid SSV undisclosed deal is not going to happen. Darn MD
You're welcome. Not gonna happen. Call me crazy, in denial, naive, or just plain stupid, but I really dont' think it's gonna happen that way at all. Cheers!
I was at the Juse 25th game with LA and would like to see what that game looked like on TV. I don't see a link to the full game on the mlsnet site. Does anyone know of a way to see the full game?