Tiff, (ha ha , that's LA sounding) it's great that you have been able to cleanse your mind and body of anything generated out of So. Cal., but, seriously, some of you have taken the concept of rivalry way too far.
Here's the latest reply from the Quakes on FB. That sounds more like a contradiction of this statement than a clarification My guess is that the Quakes marketing folks really didn't think the overall response was going to be negative and now they're back tracking.
Amazing how riled people get over nothing. It's not like everything in LA is evil... Just everything in Carson.
My point is that it shows what that the Quakes organization is pretty (what's that SoCal term? Oh yeah...) Mickey Mouse...
Yes, the last time I checked LA was still part of the same state and country that we belong to. To give you all an overly descriptive analogy: We all have armpits and an anus. They stink and are not really places you want to visit, however they, do serve a function. Now, as a state, we have LA and it's sprawling suburbs. Again, they kind of stink and they are not places you want to visit, however, they do serve a function.
Not really, no. It just shows a few fans are a bit overly touchy anf take our rivalry with the scum too far to anything related to LA. Frankly I don't care if they film at the HDC itself if they end up with top notch commercials that have high quality and production values if they work at attracting folks to games and look good.
Part of the problem here is not thinking. Everything you do says something about you. When you are an organization that is trying to recruit fans and supporters, you want to be careful that what you do reflects that fan base. This isn't nothing. This isn't unimportant. Think about this. The Quakes need and want better media coverage in the Bay Area. So hiring a low-cal firm to do the commercials sends what sort of message to the local media? Compared to spending the same amount of money on a local Bay Area firm? We haven't seen the commercial itself, but if you film a commercial in San José about the Quakes such that it is recognizably SJ that should fit with the fans expectations. If you film a commercial in low-cal ... unless it somehow plays up the rivalry (which it easily could) won't it look like we want to be low-cal? Shouldn't the Quakes be trying to promote local businesses? Like the viewing parties at Double D (it's Double D right?), or the Brit. We have local advertisers, let's support them. The team should be promoting San José. So filming a commercial in low-cal, on its face, looks a little sketchy. We'll see how it pans out. Maybe it's a great idea. Maybe these commercials will totally rock. But you have to understand the skepticism. Go Quakes!! - Mark
In fact, it would have been uncharacteristically brilliant to have incorporated landmarks from all over the Bay Area. You want people from the 9-country area, not just people who live in SJ, to look at that ad and say to themselves "that is MY home team."
Yeah - given that the biggest news so far in the off-season is the hiring of a player nobody had ever heard of, I guess we shouldn't be surprised...
Mark we'll just have to disagree on this. The A's for instance have had some great marketing campaigns in the last 10 years and almost all of them have been filmed in Phoenix of all places. A great TV ad does not have to be filmed in the city the team plays in. It's much more important that a good firm be making it and that the message that the ad has. It matters little where it's filmed. For instance if you filmed at Double D's the majority of Bay Area residents wouldn't even recognize the place, nor care. In fact the only ones who would care would be the owners of Double D's and possibly the few fans who have been to Double D's and recognize the place. Neither of which are the target audience of an ad as we've already bought tickets or partnered with the team. The message is more important that the backdrop in an ad so that it brings in new people to see the Quakes.
This is silly guys. Los Angeles is definitely a crappy city by my standards, but it isn't the object of our rivalry. Our rivalry is club-to-club, and our hate goes to the LA Galaxy and their supporters not the city and all people in it. Hating on all things LA (the city) is just dumb. That would be some sort of backwards regionalism that takes the rivalry out of its soccer context. If the Galaxy were doing our ads I'd be pissed, but that isn't the case, some of you are imagining an outrage out of nothing.
No. Bakersfield IS Southern California. It was assigned to them many many many years ago. It was assigned to them because they don't want to be associated with Bakersfield. SLO is SLO. Cali - WTF is with the "Cali" bullshit. It's California. The word Cali is another example of an LA trend ruining the state. The problem is that they thought it would impress us to say they were working with an LA based company. They don't understand their fan base.
Downtown businesses need all the help they can get just to stay afloat these days. [So do the Quakes, on the field.] So for those who don't care about such, those would be the people who don't give a shyte about SJ, and for those who don't give a shyte about SJ, fudge ya. Hopefully the L.A. ads feature a rewarding mix of defecation and the HDC. Hopefully.
sorry amigo cali started in norcal during the 50's...we brought it to LA(sorta) and it became huge there. im the grand daddy of all slang on these boards.. pretty much everyone in CALI knows cali means california and CALIFORNIA ONLY. and cali is a abbreviation of a abbreviation of calif. so no one is going to sound retarded and say CALi-FFFF and california is the only state where people actually can abbreviate the state name with out sounding stupid which is what makes us again another distinctive state.(think of it abbreviate washington...wash..texas...tex....new york...ny(or nee) ) ahh the joys of being CALIfornian being able to use slang and be accepted in society, anyways off to bed, ill t/w/y ppls l8ter
Bullshit. Prove it. Show me some early 60's references. My recollection is that it didn't come into vogue until just this past decade. My suspicion is that some hiphop/rapper type popularized it, but since I'm not into hiphop/rappers I don't know who. yaknowwhatimsayin?
LL Cool J released "Going Back to Cali" in 1988. I still hear it once in awhile on XM radio's throwback hip hop station.
watch some surfer movies, watch some movies in general from back then, music?... pretty much skaters and surfers (surfers before skaters though) started calling california...cali the word became popularized in the 70s though and into the 80s.
Well, it could be part of this year's marketing campaign - "Last year's results, this year's direction."
Bullshit. I lived on a southern California beach in the late 70s into the 80s. Skate boarded to class at UCSD. Seen a few surf movies too. Nobody used the term Cali.