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World Soccer XXX: We Have Men Too!

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Russell Jaslow said:
My brother and his wife went to the game. But they traveled a much lesser distance than you did. :-)
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I did a lot of traveling yesterday and I am paying for it now, but worth it!

Left Anchorage at 10:15
Arrived in Seattle at around 2:45
Got to the stadium around 3:30
Went into the stadium around 5
Game at 7
Got to the airport around 10:30
My 12:30 flight was delayed to 1:20
Got into Anchorage at 3:30am

I definitely wasn’t the only person to do this, ran into a few others from Anchorage that went to the game on both flights.
 
Jimjamesak said:
This is the level of petty I strive for…
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If you mean it's deliberately showing them up because of the social stance, every Portland fan will support you on that. We are not our owners, as every Mets fan who suffered under the Wilpons will tell you.

The Seattle hate of Portland is bizarre because it isn't returned. When animosity is one way it's usually Little Brother Syndrome. This is the only case I can think of where the bigger city hates the smaller one and the smaller is just "meh" about the bigger one. I just don't get the gripe.
 
Yeah, based on the comments of my teenage nephews who live in Portland and I’m not sure if they own any clothes that don’t have an axe on them, I’m going to say that it’s reciprocated.
 
LynahFan said:
Yeah, based on the comments of my teenage nephews who live in Portland and I’m not sure if they own any clothes that don’t have an axe on them, I’m going to say that it’s reciprocated.
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Timbers fans are the people who will cheer a tifo of a lumberjack chainsawing the Space Needle while complaining about the “violent imagery” in the Sounders Build A Bonfire tifo.

Though, TBF, most Timbers fans right now are too PO’d at their ownership and management to care what Seattle is doing.
 
Also, rough week for Pumas UNAM, they lose the CCL Final to Seattle 3-0 on Wednesday then get eliminated from the LigaMX playoffs by Chivas 4-1 on Sunday.
 
Electronic Arts is apparently starting a new MLS expansion franchise called EA Sports FC.

Oh wait, that’s new name for the FIFA series after EA lost the license.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Video on the proposal to change how soccer games are timed and run.
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2/3 efficiency is still pretty good. Especially since it’s almost all real time. American football is at 20% for efficiency by game clock and 6% real time. Baseball with no clock is just under 10%.

NBA technically has a full 48 minutes of action, and really more given free throws, but that’s still only around 38% for real time efficiency. NHL is just a tad under 50%. Take away the period breaks and that number jumps up to 63%, nearly matching soccer.

It sounds like they would shorten the actual halves if they did this so it would still take around the same amount of real time to finish a game, but I’m just not sure that’s needed. One of the nice things about soccer, and frankly maybe one of the reasons F1 is growing, is that you can sit down and know that in two hours max you can move on to something else.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
2/3 efficiency is still pretty good. Especially since it’s almost all real time. American football is at 20% for efficiency by game clock and 6% real time. Baseball with no clock is just under 10%.

NBA technically has a full 48 minutes of action, and really more given free throws, but that’s still only around 38% for real time efficiency. NHL is just a tad under 50%. Take away the period breaks and that number jumps up to 63%, nearly matching soccer.

It sounds like they would shorten the actual halves if they did this so it would still take around the same amount of real time to finish a game, but I’m just not sure that’s needed. One of the nice things about soccer, and frankly maybe one of the reasons F1 is growing, is that you can sit down and know that in two hours max you can move on to something else.
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I think the big thing that the people proposing this want is that the actual “game time” on the actual game with the ball in play the whole time. In that sense the NHL and NBA are at 100% (though the NFL is likely way lower).

I just find it funny that a concept that was derided as “too American” years ago by Europeans is now being seriously discussed by Europeans.

I find the concept, stopping the clock at every stoppage, more palatable than the current uses in HS and NCAA soccer where the clock is only stopped at arbitrary moments, though I would add the rugby caveat that the game doesn’t end until the ball is out of play.
 
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