Portlanders: Soccer? Meh....Give Me Beer & Weed, Baby!

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"Soccer? Nobody here wants to watch soccer. This is Portland, we like to drink beer and smoke weed."

Bullshit, Portland loves soccer.
 
I love people who have been in a city for a year thinking they know how the city thinks. And of course, his roomates are cued in on what makes Portland tick.
 
Anyone who thinks soccer is popular in Portland is obviously from somewhere else.

As a "sport" here, soccer has all the acceptance of a Californian transplant who violates building codes by building a 3-story home blocking your view of Mt. Hood.

The fact the city council wants the public to subsidize it proves how unpopular soccer really is, and guarantees the councilpersons supporting this boondoggle will be looking for new careers soon.
 
Main Event said:
I wish football was as popular in the States...
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me too man. I'd trade boring ass baseball and boring hockey for soccer anyday. oh and nascar, good god nascar..... fucking nascar....
 
dpc said:
me too man. I'd trade boring ass baseball and boring hockey for soccer anyday. oh and nascar, good god nascar..... fucking nascar....
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C'mon down to A-Town. I'll show ya freakin' NASCAR. :cheers:
 
MARIS61 said:
Anyone who thinks soccer is popular in Portland is obviously from somewhere else.

As a "sport" here, soccer has all the acceptance of a Californian transplant who violates building codes by building a 3-story home blocking your view of Mt. Hood.

The fact the city council wants the public to subsidize it proves how unpopular soccer really is, and guarantees the councilpersons supporting this boondoggle will be looking for new careers soon.
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Yah, the popularity of the original "timbers army" was fake. As was all UP soccer fans (both mens and womens). And ignore that portland has the nickname "soccer city usa".
 
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julius said:
Yah, it was all those californians that were part of the original "timbers army"..
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Ahh, yes, the 70's/80's NASL Timbers. I attended more than one of those ridiculous sellouts....including the '75 playoffs. (they lost in the Soccer Bowl, though.)
 
soccer sucks and the stadium deal the mayor wants will cost the taxpayers millions.
 
Think of it this way, if the parking meter hours change to 9pm, then I guess the city will make more money when a MLS soccer game is going on. I guess then we should all take the MAX.
 
Soccer, beer and weed can mix together quite necely, so no need to exclude one of them.
 
MLS in not really popular anywhere, But I disagree with you'all, soccer as a sport in really popular among young people
 
julius said:
Yah, the popularity of the original "timbers army" was fake. As was all UP soccer fans (both mens and womens). And ignore that portland has the nickname "soccer city usa".
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They had their small cult following, but "popularity" is a huge stretch.

Sports far more popular locally at the time included any Little League Baseball game, high school football game, and Portland Wrestling.

1 person I know, out of tens of thousands I have known, likes soccer and played it a bit in community college.

I've never come across anyone else in my life who has any interest at all in it, except here apparently.
 
MARIS61 said:
Speaking of the stupidity of soccer...

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/sto...-goalie,-18,-shot-to-death?MSNHPHCP&gt1=39002
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or you know, that could be down to the stupidity of that particular person instead of an entire sport. but no, that wouldn't help you and your anti-soccer agenda, now would it?

the portland timbers are well supported now, and they will be even better supported in MLS. this is a great city for soccer, and i would even argue the best in north america.
 
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MARIS61 said:
1 person I know, out of tens of thousands I have known, likes soccer and played it a bit in community college.

I've never come across anyone else in my life who has any interest at all in it, except here apparently.
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is this your basis for soccer being unpopular? lol.

out of the THOUSANDS (lol) of people i know, 3 are professional soccer players and all of my close friends are obsessed with the sport. so i guess that means it is the post popular sport in portland (or dare i say the world, oh wait it is). nice logic.
 
MARIS61 said:
They had their small cult following, but "popularity" is a huge stretch.

Sports far more popular locally at the time included any Little League Baseball game, high school football game, and Portland Wrestling.

1 person I know, out of tens of thousands I have known, likes soccer and played it a bit in community college.

I've never come across anyone else in my life who has any interest at all in it, except here apparently.
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Soccer is huge wherever I am. All my friends in Oregon play it... all my friends in ND play it, and all of them in MN play it.
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
Chris Brown FTW!
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Chris Brown RULZ!
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to say that soccer is popular here because kids play it, is like saying the WNBA is popular but little girls play basketball. could soccer here work? maybe, but at the end of the day the MLS is a league that is losing money and probably won't be around in another 10 years. soccer is not an american sport and it translates horribly to television, so it will NEVER thrive in the US. let the MLS come here, it won't bother me at all, as long as the baseball stadium gets built in the RQ.

oh and football is big here in the states, but it's real football, not futbol.
 
bigbailes said:
to say that soccer is popular here because kids play it, is like saying the WNBA is popular but little girls play basketball.
oh and football is big here in the states, but it's real football, not futbol.
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Did anyone say anything about kids? I believe were talking about young people here < 30. Which your obviously not a part of, considering your trying to compare football to soccer, completely different sports.

Article in the Oregonian today, the Seattle Sounders MLS expansion team has sold over 20,000 season tickets of its 22,000 spots.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2009/03/former_portland_stars_keller_a.html
"If we could get teams in Portland and Vancouver, the Northwest would be the heart of soccer in North America," Wright said."

If you still think soccer is unpopular here your simply out of touch.
 
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