As mentioned before, the money is going from 4ATX to the Austin Area Urban League disaster fund, which was one of the first ones set up when the storm hit.
Why not just give to the Urban League disaster fund? I’m sure 4ATX will take by their administration fee and pass along the rest. Your owner is a scam artist.
WTF, a terrible, life threatening disaster is taking place. Your idiotic ownership group looks like total morons by keeping their shiny new stadium lights on, while residents in their city are in misery without electric and water. Then they rightly get smacked with the bad pr they deserve. They try to turn it into a positive pr story by raising money for disaster relief, but can't help themselves, and go for a money grab at the same time. You bet your sweet little hipster life that they probably take their standard admin./processing fee from each dollar that is given. These fees are unrestricted, and they can use them as they wish. Please give the money directly to the service organizations that are actually doing the work to help people. Do not facilitate a pr/money grab scam charading as charity work.
Even if they don't skim a penny from donations, it's still dumb to reroute the money to charity via a soccer team. The whole thing only makes sense as a PR distraction from the flak for keeping the lights on during blackouts. For that they deserve all the contempt they're receiving.
One thing we do know for sure is that the "foundation" is a contractual obligation that the team made with the city of Austin as part of the deal: Austin FC would donate money to local causes. Someone please, please, please bet me that whatever money people give them for this scam which they then pass on to some legitimate agency won't get prominently featured when it's time to show the city that they've been living up to the deal. These people were grifters and frauds in Columbus and they didn't change just because they switched towns.
So OK, somebody explain this to me: Two chins McDaddysmoney Tweeted that "like so many" he was without power, apparently claiming that he's actually in Austin. So he says he had to go out to his car to charge his phone. OK, been there. Then he claims he whiled away the evening (while very cold) watching "the first episodes" of Take me home Leeds United". How did he watch those "episodes" if had "no power"? Is he claiming that he then sat in his car watching reruns on his dying phone? If he was in his car why was he cold? Doesn't his car have a heater? If he was in his purported home then what was he using for electricity? And.finally: this is a man who owned a professional soccer.club for six years and during that time attended half a dozen games at best, including one he tried to skip but the commissioner ordered him to go. A man who admitted that until he bought the Crew he had never even watched a soccer game on TV. Yet in a weather crisis, with no power, no water, no hot food and sub-zero temperatures he huddled in his car and watched a multi episode history of Leeds F*cking United? Come on. What a joke. What a lying sack of crap. Like so many...no power...but charged my phone from car and cold evening made better by watching first episodes of ‘Take Us Home: Leeds United’...very fired up for the battle and emotion of our first campaign...— Anthony Precourt (@APrecourt) February 17, 2021
Ok, all I said was that the money is going to AAUL, which has raised $1.2 million from a wide range of donations.
In fairness, he said he used his car to charge the phone--not that he sat in it all watching the show.....
There's no way he bought a place in Texas. He probably turned his lights off in California...using a "team of electricians" of course. "How many hipsters does it take to turn off a fvcking lightbulb" as @Ch(Elsey) might say.
I completely agree that it seems unlikely. But if he didn't have power in his home then where did he go to watch tv?
And he can't be using his home network because that's on a router. So is he admitting using wireless bandwidth that might be needed by first responders?
I don’t remember this. Was it the home playoff game in 2017 against NYCFC? Or the TFC playoff game? I do remember fans giving him sh!t from Section 120 while he sat in the VIP deck looking like a doofus.
There's a lot of people who should see this, but they won't because someone wrote a "Somethings are bigger than sports" letter.
On the phone, in the house, like a lot of folks do these days. I don't get it, myself, as I never saw a phone as a media center, but I'm not a Gen Z type.
They won't have to skim. It's a tax write off. People donate money to a corporation for some cause, corporation turns around and donates that money and writes it off as its own contribution. Same thing happens when they ask you to add a dollar or round up at the drive through.
That's the reason I usually don't do the "donate a dollar" or "round up" thing. I donate directly to whichever charity the money goes to.
This is all true. Although, since the money is being donated to Prebort's 4ATX non-profit foundation, some additional rules/options probably apply, assuming it's a 501c3.
Another TX pro sports team with a PR problem, The Houston Texans, just made a donation of $500 large to the Greater Houston/Harris County Relief Fund. so while dipshit and dipshit jr brag about all the good they’re doing by donating $30,000 of OTHER people’s money (less their own administrative fee of course), real sport team owners the McNairs are donating close to 20 times that amount. These guys are incompetent with every breath. And it’s a good thing that actual breathing is an instinctive reflex or they’d eff that up too!!
Didn’t the Haslams donate like $1.5M last year when Covid hit? I’ll be impressed when Precourt opens his own wallet. Unfortunately, as we all know, it’s empty.
The mindset of "BigSoccer Crew vs Others." https://www.facebook.com/214781998548459/posts/4423439094349374/ If people want to give their money, well, it's their money and they're free to do with it as they wish. After reading these last few pages, there's definitely better ways to support. This side of the story is definitely worth getting out, however.
Luis Argudo is in preseason camp with Austin now. Not signed, probably just trialing. Austin picking up even more Columbus leftovers because their familiar to Josh.
If I'm an Austin fan, I'd be really really concerned that our team may be made up of 50%+ of another teams' bench players/castoffs. What will be interesting is to see if they are then paying them more than their previous teams as well.
They are really counting on their foreign signings to provide the spark. Just my opinion, I don't see game changers there.