Oh, Lord. This Sounders-Timbers shit is ridiculous. They fucking started it, with their "ACES" (Any Club Except Seattle) and the "Keller: Do The Cobain" banner (with pic of shotgun), but it's stupid and needs to stop.
I'm sitting at an open air mall in east San Diego right now. I just got back from the beach and the zoo. San Diego is like Seattle -- only with year round sun shine. From what I can see, you can rent a 2 bedroom apartment around here for $1200.
I'm not really seeing the advantage of Seattle over San Diego at this point.
Oh, the indignation expressed by the P.I. commenters is just precious. Come on, one incident doesn't mean that we're headed for Brazillian soccer riot territory. "Friendly rival banter" probably means "drunken assholes swearing at each other". It's gonna happen occasionally. The best thing any one of us can do is not contribute to it ourselves.
Fnarf, I highly doubt that it's going to go away anytime soon, particularly since Portland is going to be joining our division in a year's time. It's as stupid and not stupid as any sports rivalry.
wisepunk- March to the Match at night is all I'm going to say.
Our guys should be ashamed, though. 3 on 1 is no way to fight.
And lovely timely usage of the word 'Hooligan'! It's thought to come from the surname 'Houlihan', for a particularly rowdy Irish family living in London around the turn of the previous century...
@2, @8, I looked long and hard for green flares, but apparently they only have the nautical kind you shoot 300 feet in the air with a gun, which is a little more show than I'm interested in.
@14, yeah, those guys weren't really football fans, they were violence fans. And they're all fat fiftyish old men with bad knees now, peddling their "ooh, I'm hard, really I am" memoirs. Fascinating book, but those days are long past in England.
@ 16, yeah those were some classy gents, though some of 'em were fat and fifty at the time... I figured you'd know the book and just wanted to give you some ribbing pleasure.
I'm not really seeing the advantage of Seattle over San Diego at this point.
wisepunk- March to the Match at night is all I'm going to say.
Our guys should be ashamed, though. 3 on 1 is no way to fight.
Lord luv the Irish!
You shall never walk alone!
Not saying it was acceptable, but I'm sure the "friendly Banter" wasn't quite as innocent as they are framing it.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs…
But from a soccer culture perspective, IMHO, this is kind of great.
(Fnarf, if you think MLS isn't about things that are "long past in England," you haven't checked the rosters lately.)
Plus, it's not like we have to be afraid of Portland's retaliation (disdainful hipster shrug?)
The Timbers won a game?