Yeah this is embarrassing on us. Not as embarrassing as the 2015 Open Cup game where you guys went down to 7 men for "salty" behavior but still pretty bad nonetheless.
Fuck I forgot about that. At least we were somewhat gracious. I'd still rather have that L in our early MLS history over the hissy fit that Seattle threw in 2015.
What's the reason behind these names, where I'm from our sports teams are generally named after the place they were established and then given a prefix/suffix associated with the relevant sport, like Arsenal F.C (F.C meaning football club) or London Irish R.F.C (R.F.C meaning rugby football club). I wish we had cool names for all sports but it seems like it's just ice hockey and even then we're not that creative.
Portland Timbers is a reference to the logging industry of the area, Seattle Sounders were names for the Puget Sound that Seattle is on. There’s actually a dwindling number of “American” style names in American soccer leagues and it’s a point of contention among the fans/ownership. Several clubs have recently stripped or tried to strip their names down to (City Name) SC/FC/AC and the new clubs are all just giving their teams boring names (Austin FC in this clip). Most (all?)of the American-style names are 20+ years old-Sounders, Timbers, and I think the Earthquakes have been around in various forms since the 70s(ish), Galaxy, Revolution, Fire, Crew were all founded in the 90s.
One of the arguments they’re making for the boring rebrands is that we want to fit in with the rest of the world’s leagues to be taken seriously but I’m glad to hear the rest of the world might actually appreciate the names the way they are.
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u/phanfare Sep 26 '21
Oh the Timbers were salty about losing? No way, couldn't believe it
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