How many here are looking forward to Portland Timbers FC being promoted to the MLS? I am curious since it would be our 2nd pro team and since on the 8th I watched Liverpool FC destroy West Brom Albion 3-0 and that Portland is Called Soccer City USA! plus what would you name our future (yeah i know i know) NFL, MLB and NHL teams? Oregon Orcas (MLB) Portland Pioneers (NHL) Oregon Loggers (NFL) i am not so sure about the loggers maybe Oregon Ocras would be better for the NFL team...i dont know.
I am old enough to remember when the Timbers were in the NASL. The days of the Timbers/Sounders/Whitecaps rivalry were awesome.
they lived in the USL as well HERE IS TO THE TIMBER GETTING PROMOTED!!!!! HCP? your TIMBERS? hmmmm your dad work in washington? as for the other part of the question you did guys didnt answer!
I hope they get promoted and i also hope there is never a mens sports team called the Orcas, I understand its a killer whale but i still think of little girls clutching a keiko doll.
The first professional soccer match i ever saw was the Timbers years ago. Someone scored a hat-trick and the lumberjack guy kept cutting off slices of a big tree on the side of the pitch. It wasn't until much later that I properly got into the sport and now I'm a season ticket holder for New York but I would be very happy for Portland to be a part of the league, someday when I end up in Portland again it would be nice to have a team to follow.
BTW, I don't think "promoted" is the right phrase to use in this case. MLS would have to award Portland a franchise. We could name it anything we want, but I think the prevailing sentiment would be for "Timbers." The current Portland Timbers team would cease to exist.
yeah Portland is one of the 6 iirc group looking to buy a franchise of MLS expansion for 2011. m l s n e t .com the message boards talk about the other cities that put bids in and we are waiting till dec or early jan/feb to find out who gets the two teams. off the top of my head: Portland Timbers FC Montreal Impact Vancouver White Caps St Loius Atlanta Miami Ottawa there is one more us group but i cant think of it right now. PGE Park will look sweet when done being converted,
I would love to see the Timbers in the MLS and think this city could support an MLS team. But when it comes to soccer events, I have found a litle gem. I can drink, watch good soccer and flirt with college girls all in one venue . . . UoP women's soccer. Laugh it up . . . but scoring occurs on all levels at those games.
This would be one of those "it's about time" things for me. Not that MLS is really that popular in the US, but I know Portland would be all over it.
I went there for a semester, and was part of the "Adidas Spirit Club". $5 an hour to cheer like a maniac at the women's games (Tiffany Milbrett and Shannon MacMillan...mmmm), sing along with the drums, run up and down the field with flags after goals...the whole nine yards. Never scored myself, though. Them's the breaks.
I would imagine it got a little tougher since Seattle just got the Sounders FC. Would they put a NW team in 2 expansions in a row? I'd love to see it. Rooting for Portland teams is much more fun than Seattle teams.