Having been there last night, you should round up those kids and pack them on the bus down to RFK next weekend. Impressive! I seriously hope you bring a good contingent down here next weekend. Sport is about rivalries. In this rivalry, roadtrips are where it's at.
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United kids got a huge applause and chant as they were passing under DC side tunnel and got big grins on their faces hehe
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United Ohhh ok. Thanx for clearing that up. Cause I thought when ya'll were leaning over the railing ya'll were doing something else. I think they called it "leaving your mark" back in the day.
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United Those kids were great!!! Yeah, we were cheering for them as they left the field. One of the best half time shows I've ever seen. Prior to half time, one of the stadium people came over to our section and asked me to spread the word around to not play our drums when the kids were playing, and we were happy to comply.
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United yes, those kids got a hearty round of applause from us on the other hand, we let the kids who were dragging an effigy of a DC player behind a cart have it. but hey I forgot we're the ones without class
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United Not only was it an effigy of a player, but it was the effigy of a black player, being dragged behind a vehicle. I mean, have these kids or their parents never heard of the Byrd case?
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United So if it was white this would be acceptable? Interesting... Anyway not quite sure why DC fans (including myself) are invading the Metros thread. Love the Metro support though!!
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United ummm... WTF ??? When and where the hell did this happen?
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United Did I say that? I don't think it would've been acceptable no matter who the player was. I would never think it was a good idea to drag an effigy of an opposition player behind a vehicle, no matter who it was.
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United It was at halftime. There was some sort of weird float thing that they were going to take out onto the field. It was a truck with a float behind it that had these surfboards and a fake MLS Cup made out of foil or something. There were a bunch of surfboards or boogie boards on the float, and there was an effigy of a player in Adu's uniform attached to the back of the float. And attached to the Adu effigy leg was a blow-up shark with "MPF" written on it. I think someone from the Metros front office nixed the idea of taking the float out onto the field because they realized how bad it would look to drag an effigy of Freddy Adu behind a vehicle.
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United OK you tried to inflame things by saying it was a black player, raising old south images. I didn't see it, I was up talking to friends, but to just say it was a black likeness and then after the fact it was a likeness of Adu, is just as irresponsible.
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United ohhh. That was part of the MPF parade earlier in the day. Beleive me there was NO intention of black vs white intended there. It was just a bunch of kids with help from mum and pop making a pro Metro - anti DC float.
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United I dont think any of us thought it was inherantly rasist, just in very, very poor taste, especially having kids do it.
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United My friend had actually thought about making an effigy of a DC player and making a noose and tying it to the lamp post in the car park...... but he didn't.
Re: Metro playoff road trip, Sat Oct 30th- Metro at DC United I thought it was funny in a sense that same person that thought that was good idea in this PC climate is probably also responsible for silly plastic hats Plus good idea to park it in front of us so we can tell them what we thought about it