If John DeBrito showed up, it would be a far more interesting Match Ignitor. Given that he's been, you know, dead for 5 years.
It’s not meant to get ppl to show up , It’s honoring your history and former players and coaches it’s the right thing to do
I’m surprised they haven’t asked LeBron or Bizxy bone ( for the Cleveland match ), Lil Bow wow , or a few stars Oh wait I can because we are cheap , but even being cheap we could bring in actual Crew players for next to nothing if not nothing.
Yeah, yeah, and the tasty way to do it, I'm sure. THIS DOESN'T MATTER, GUYS. We're tied for second place, and we're about to play our biggest rival, who's in first place, in our only home match against them of the season. Our expected center back hasn't played a minute all season and will still not be available. We rested guys midweek in a gamble to lift our chances of getting three points tomorrow, so this could either pay off handsomely or prove to be a failure. I can't believe people are choosing to care about what they're caring about in this thread.
I meant 2018. Forgot what year the team played. I associate it with the year of the announcement. Ola left for cash. Zardes was reborn that 2018 season
Have you forgotten what message board this is? This is literally our identity. Worry about everything that isn't important is kind of our calling card around these parts.
Yeah, let's get Adam Bedell, that will fire everyone up!! I love that all the talk before our rivalry game is who the match ignitor is. Who fvcking cares.
I dont have anything against Archie, but I wish the Crew could stop acting like the Buckeyes poor cousins.
What would you like to discuss, Keith? Both coaches are being tight-lipped during their preparation and there is no news coming out of either camp. Lineups won't get released for another 24 hours. If you only want to talk about the on-field performance, just mute the channel until tomorrow night. Some of us want to talk about why the Haslams will pay a boatload to Welshly Arms for two minutes of music but can't be bothered to pick up the phone and ask local Crew alumni to make appearances for the 30th season.
I loved it last year or the year before when Nancy, after being suspended for throwing a water bottle (?), was match ignitor. If we have anyone out on a red, or yellow card accumulations, or even injured, they should be a match ignitor. (Evan Bush should have been one last season.)
I was just about to make a joke about how maybe Jym Ganahl is available to be match ignitor and see that he sadly passed away this year. I did not know that
Its a shame the two Jacks won't happen as match ignitors. Jack Hanna is, sadly, too far gone and I believe Jack Nicklaus lives in Florida except for Memorial season and he's obviously quite busy with that. They're both legends in every sense of the word. One (or all?) of the guys in OAR would be a massive catch.
Jack Hanna I'd be stoked for? Jack Nicklaus? If you're over 50, sure. I don't think Nicklaus is gonna get too many people pumped. The match ignitor thing is dumb, just like the jackhammer is dumb. And it just stands to reason that a city like Columbus is gonna be scraping the bottom of the barrel relatively quickly. Wanna bring in Brian Maisonneuve? Sure, bring him in, whoever that is. And bring in Adam Bedell. And bring in Ben Swanson while you're at it. And Dilly Duka. And Konrad Warzycha. And JJ Williams. At the end of the day, easily 75% of the stadium won't have a clue who it is, so who cares. You could probably just find a guy that looks like McBride and put him out there and 99% of the crowd wouldn't notice. I wouldn't mind Ale Moreno, he was always bery vocal about keeping the team here, but I bet most people now know him from ESPN FC and a large chuck of those people won't even know he played here.
Never heard of either. Might as well get the pickleball guy. Hell, just get a dude from a food stall to come out and say he's a pickleball guy, I wouldn't know the difference.