Mr Payne, In light of todays 4th Championship, I want to ask you to give something back to us, the Supporters. PLEASE, on all new apparel from today forward, give us STARS!! We the supporters showed our comittment through the drought, honor us, allow us to wear the 4 stars with pride. Thank You Mark Dettinger DC United Campiones de America!!!!
Wasn't the DCU Store supposed to be new and improved back in April?! It's the same crappy merchandise - just look at the YEAR on the calendar! I want four stars on everything so I sport my DCU gear around the country in time for next season. Scarves, shirts, jerseys, teddy bears - hell, I'll even buy a facsimile autographed 8x10 of Kevin Payne in a D.C. United polo shirt! Revamp the store and I'll spend more than my share of cash there...
I twelth (sp) it! Mark, I can't agree more with you, we definitely stuck by this team through thick and thin. To the Gentleman from the front office: Let us have 4 stars please! Robert "Beltway" Brennan
Am I the only one who's against putting 4 on the kit? I think we should leave it at 3...the 3 stars can be for the 3 stars on DC's flag. Another way to look at it is...we've won so many more titles than anyone else, we don't need to put all of ours on there...3 is enough to remind everyone. After all, are we really gonna have 10 stars in 6 years? It's just gonna start looking like a yellow jersey after a little while.
Next time we win we could put a silver star on their to signify 5 titles, and then just add gold ones again for every one past 5.
This is almost exactly what the military does on their ribbons. You add "clusters" until you get to say 4 then the 5th is a different color (they usually start with bronze and move to silver). I see no reason to not add the 4th start. Especially because this team did what most thought could not be done. And they did it not as just a bunch of players, but as an entire organization, from the front office, the coaches, the team, and us FANS!
I'm sure there's some reasonable way of putting stars on the kit and signifying the accomplishments. Whatever you do, it's gotta mean something extra when a rookie pulls on the shirt for the first time. Maybe they could just have only stars for 10-year increments from 96 forward. I'm as optimistic as the next guy, but I doubt very often we would run out of room for the stars.
Just out of curiosity, why can I buy plenty of Adidas replicas containing stars (AC Milan, Bayern Munich to name two), but not DC United replicas? It's the right thing to do, hopefully either Adidas or DC's front office will help you folks out. Because if you guys pave the way, then maybe someday (though not likely), I'll be able to purchase a Columbus Adidas shirt with a star. Wait, who am I kidding... Good luck from Japan.
Today will be our day to talk to Kevin about this. I definitely think it is well deserved by all. And you gotta think every time one of our opponents sees those 4 stars on the jersey, don't think there isn't some intimidation factor. I mean think about it... a newbie "Real Salt Fake" team takes the field against the FOUR TIME MLS Champion, the Nest (or whats left of it) is bouncing, got the whole place rockin, and there's this mean, lean, fighting machine on the field, and then you look at our crest and see 4 gleaming gold stars, you know you are in for a wild ride!