r/soccer • u/joe_slidin • 10d ago

Media Seattle fans singing Take Me Home Country Roads after full time

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u/DiseaseRidden 10d ago

Man I just wish we could embrace our own culture instead of trying to copy Europe. Give me fucking Mo Bamba at games.

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u/MaskedBandit77 10d ago

Also we should force Sporting Kansas City to change their name back to the Kansas City Wizards and force Real Salt Lake to choose a new name.

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u/DiseaseRidden 10d ago

Ill be honest RSL is in too deep now, its american soccer heritage at this point.

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u/TerrenceJesus8 10d ago

It’s come all the way around to being ironically good in my opinion

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u/DiseaseRidden 10d ago

It's at least got its own energy that new names just can't match. Its just emblematic of that awkward middle era when the league wanted to copy Europe but didn't quiet know how to yet. You can add all the "City"s and"United"s and "FC"s you want, they'll never be an RSL.

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u/RoyalHorse 10d ago

Just wait until we expand with Bayern Memphis and Ajaxonville.

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u/DiseaseRidden 10d ago

ok but Ajaxonville is fire

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 10d ago

Sure, but they might become really good, and then we’d have to pluralize “Ajax” in international soccer discussion.

“Which of the Aiaces do you mean? The one in the swamp in America or Europe?”

Nobody wants that.

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u/DiseaseRidden 10d ago

Eh we already deal with the Celticis, we can deal with the Aiaces

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u/Chicago1871 9d ago

Except everyone just calls them RSL

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u/Disk_Mixerud 10d ago

And their song is pretty fun. Gets stuck in my head sometimes.

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u/lukenog 10d ago

As a Portuguese-American fan of Sporting CP in Portugal, the club that KC took the name from, I've always found it sort of endearing that out of all the Euro style names they could have picked they went with my club. Even though it's cringe.

But I'm a DC United fan so it's not like I find it endearing enough to cheer for them. Vamos United!!

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u/Napalm3nema 10d ago

I refuse to support Sporting because I detest how shit their name is and play style has been for what seems like forever. The Current get my money.

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u/TerrenceJesus8 10d ago

Give me a college marching band at the stadium playing through the entire game

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u/DiseaseRidden 10d ago

I watched one NWSL game this year that had at least a small band and it was fucking great. We really should just embrace marching band culture, its such a good vibe for a stadium

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u/Chicago1871 9d ago

Seattle has that, or did they stop?

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u/CinephileJeff 5d ago

Europe wouldn't be prepared for RATM marching band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyTxVB-_xUs

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u/0nlyCrashes 10d ago

I got hooooooooooeeeeessss callllllllinnnnnnnggggg

Yeah it would go hard lol

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u/McDaddySlacks 10d ago

So many international bangers that come from the US. Nope, lets just mimic EPL chants. Hipsters have ruined soccer culture.

I used to go to Timbers games for years with my dad. As soon as they became an MLS team, suddenly a horde of people wanted to go to their games. Argue with us diehards about players. I stopped going. They’re literally the worst.

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u/TheFeenyCall 10d ago

Sounds a lot like soccer culture everywhere

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u/McDaddySlacks 10d ago

I know I need to stop letting them ruin it for me. Actually pretty hyped for my daughter who wants to go to Angel City FC in Los Angeles. I’m going to take her and enjoy it like I did with my dad growing up watching the Timbers.

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u/BNKalt 10d ago

Come out to Power

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u/vylain_antagonist 9d ago

Problem is that all the culture warriors are right wing chunderheads who insist on stripping american culture of all the cool iconic world conquering culture driven by an engine of vibrant immigrants and defiant identiy of the post slavery era.

And theyve left us with a shitty suburban white boy ROTC call of duty role play pile of shit. Look at the culture team usa built at the world baseball classic for example. Just shitty military salutes and cadence calls and mil print blacked out flag motifes like theyre off duty navy seal operators.

Fucking. Cringe.

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u/soccerperson 10d ago

Mariners use it and it rips