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| jonze |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
please heckle that wuss known as Landon Donovan for me :p |
you mean the guy that us soccer keeps hyping as the greatest us player ever? |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
please heckle that wuss known as Landon Donovan for me :p |
landycakes
looking forward to season opener on mar 29...
toronto fc takes over columbus... so far, around 1000 fans making the trip down to columbus. |
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| Dj O'Callaghan |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Anyway, I find it interesting that there are ALOT of soccer fans here at work (FOX Networks). My boss has a German national team scarf/banner thing on her door. Pretty cool :p |
Errgghhh I wouldn't even wipe my arse with that banner.
I think you guys should look more towards modelling yourself on European football leagues. It'll catch on at some point, it's making the league more competative which helps.
Rivalries is another brilliant way to make sports more popular. Two teams in the same city or area will help that, the clubs and local press need to start gloating and taunting potential rivals. You can have low attendances all season but once there is a local derby you'll pack out stadiums and people will become more passionate about their team. |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj O'Callaghan
Errgghhh I wouldn't even wipe my arse with that banner.
I think you guys should look more towards modelling yourself on European football leagues. It'll catch on at some point, it's making the league more competative which helps.
Rivalries is another brilliant way to make sports more popular. Two teams in the same city or area will help that, the clubs and local press need to start gloating and taunting potential rivals. You can have low attendances all season but once there is a local derby you'll pack out stadiums and people will become more passionate about their team. |
right now, MLS is doing all it can to have a basic foundation for it to last a long time. hence why there is salary cap and lots of restrictions. (reading all the mls rules is making my head spin)
but once the league becomes more profitable and more marketable, there will be more shift towards european model and get away from north american style sports league.
as for rivalries, it's very hard since teams are spread all over the continent. yeah, in europe, it's like an hour away for even smaller epl teams to play a rival team, but many teams are like hours away by flying to go to the next nearest city. hard to get excited about all that, esp since many teams are struggling to put 15000 fans for each game.
it's going to be a near miracle that toronto fans are going all the way to columbus in hundreds for opening day, because mls don't have this away support thing going, as listed above.
should be interesting what direction mls goes next few years |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
please heckle that wuss known as Landon Donovan for me :p |
Heckle? I will straight up throw trash at ing Donovan. I can't stand that gimp. The fact that he considers himself a world class striker is ing comical.
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj O'Callaghan
Rivalries is another brilliant way to make sports more popular. Two teams in the same city or area will help that, the clubs and local press need to start gloating and taunting potential rivals. You can have low attendances all season but once there is a local derby you'll pack out stadiums and people will become more passionate about their team. |
There's only about two rivalries I can think of. Kansas City and someone...Colorado or something like that. And Galaxy and Chivas USA. But no one cares, although the players do try to make it interesting by playing dirty :stongue: |
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| Zewad |
i gave up when the Tampa Mutiny folded :(...
i mean we had Valdarama!..
tear :( |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Heckle? I will straight up throw trash at ing Donovan. I can't stand that gimp. The fact that he considers himself a world class striker is ing comical.
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That's music to my ears. :) |
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| Eddie N MIAMI |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zewad
i gave up when the Tampa Mutiny folded :(...
i mean we had Valdarama!..
tear :( |
I liked going to Miami Fusion games once in a while(we had Valderama too!) my interest in the league slowly went away when they folded.
I also thought it was pretty retarded that they played their home games in Ft. Lauderdale. |
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| chimera66 |
| give me time and i'll have an opinion... |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj O'Callaghan
Rivalries is another brilliant way to make sports more popular. Two teams in the same city or area will help that, the clubs and local press need to start gloating and taunting potential rivals. You can have low attendances all season but once there is a local derby you'll pack out stadiums and people will become more passionate about their team. |
the rivalries are developing, even if a city currently has no team like Philly
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2...es_looking.html
We got the MLS version of Millwall coming soon! :stongue: |
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| OurManFlint |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj O'Callaghan
Errgghhh I wouldn't even wipe my arse with that banner.
I think you guys should look more towards modelling yourself on European football leagues. It'll catch on at some point, it's making the league more competative which helps.
Rivalries is another brilliant way to make sports more popular. Two teams in the same city or area will help that, the clubs and local press need to start gloating and taunting potential rivals. You can have low attendances all season but once there is a local derby you'll pack out stadiums and people will become more passionate about their team. |
You know, I read a pretty interesting artical in The Economist about how America has a fair system in it's sporting events despite its free trade and competitive nature in business. Yet Europe is the opposite, and although few teams can share in on the glory, they still have a free system in allowing the best players to be monopolized to certain teams based on money the team has.
BTW, I'm drunk, I hope this makes sense, if not, I will try to clarify tomorrow. Hopefully someone else has read the same artical.:crazy: |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | Originally posted by OurManFlint
You know, I read a pretty interesting artical in The Economist about how America has a fair system in it's sporting events despite its free trade and competitive nature in business. Yet Europe is the opposite, and although few teams can share in on the glory, they still have a free system in allowing the best players to be monopolized to certain teams based on money the team has.
BTW, I'm drunk, I hope this makes sense, if not, I will try to clarify tomorrow. Hopefully someone else has read the same artical.:crazy: |
most coherent drunk post ever :tongue2 |
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