US Soccer Fan Online Travel Guide

Discussion in 'Chicago Fire' started by HalaMadrid, Mar 6, 2003.

  1. HalaMadrid

    HalaMadrid Member

    Apr 9, 1999
    Here:
    http://www.dansoccerzone.com/SoccerGuide/

    Certainly worth a look. Spotty in some parts, and certain city writeups are better than others, but definitely worth a read.

    Chicago one is good, aside from the team colors being wrong (Red and blue? come on...) :)

    Major ups to everyone involved.
     
  2. mactheknife

    mactheknife New Member

    Aug 2, 2002
    Baton Rouge, LA
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    that cardinal stadium collage is fantastic.
     
  3. Bethany

    Bethany New Member

    Sep 3, 2002
    Red! Blue! Silver! (Wait, what?)

    The article though is really nice.
     
  4. This is a fantastic overview for a fan traveling to Chicago to see a Fire game. I enjoyed the warning about asking for the Ultras' vodka.

    I think I can also tell you in secret that a real Ultras' restarurant/pub is coming to Chicago where you will be able to watch games, eat and socialize with your fellow Fire fans. Details in a few months (don't ask me now).

    Besides the team colors being wrong, a number of website addresses are wrong: thefirealarm.com, october8th.com (not current anymore), fireultras.com should be spelled without the dash (hyphen) and still not updated but hopefully for not too long now.
     
  5. Iceblink

    Iceblink Member

    Oct 11, 1999
    Chicago
    Club:
    Ipswich Town FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And the description is pretty inaccurate. I never made any attempt to cover the Fire the way newspapers should. That's not what it was about... I never had any desire at all to provide breaking news, etc.

    and it's down now... but it's still not dead.
     
  6. feuerfex

    feuerfex Member

    Apr 21, 2001
    (shed's a tear)





    Hope springs eternal!



    FWIW, the sire is sorely missed (at least by this visitor).
     
  7. Iceblink

    Iceblink Member

    Oct 11, 1999
    Chicago
    Club:
    Ipswich Town FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, the other visitor said he misses it too. :)
     
  8. Iceblink

    Iceblink Member

    Oct 11, 1999
    Chicago
    Club:
    Ipswich Town FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I don't know why everyone is so surprised to see those colors listed. Of course, white is missing, but...

    Our original 1998 jerseys had silver lettering spelling out "FIRE." I kind of liked them. They reminded me of the reflective strips on firemen's coats. Perhaps they were supposed to.
     
  9. HalaMadrid

    HalaMadrid Member

    Apr 9, 1999
    Well, for one, blue is pretty unspecific. It's navy, not royal blue or bay blue or sea blue or whatever. And it's pretty much an tertiary color, bordering on an accent.

    Two, silver hasn't been used since 98, and it was a accent color at best (hardly one of the primary team colors).

    It seems pretty clear to me we're red and white, emphasis on red. I mean, Dallas had that wasabi green in their logos and as an accent in their uniforms till a few years ago, but that didn't make them 'the black, red, and wasabi'. You look at them, red and black. You look at Metro, black and red. Not 'black-red-and-gold'.

    DC is another story entirely. They've worn a primarily red jersey exactly once in their entire history and the PR office insists they are "black and red" which is just silly.

    When you see Columbus, you think "yellow" (and black too, I guess) maybe for more reason than one :) ... Silver, grey, whatever else they have doesn't even enter into your head.

    I know I'm overstating my point, but maybe I'm just ragging on a belief that teams have to have more than one or two primary colors. Look at all of our uniforms from 98 on. We're primarily red and white. The rest are just decoration.
     

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