Dale Johnson

Husband. Father. Fisherman. Hunter. Outdoorsman. Business owner. Devoted Steelers fan.

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@Supporterhub1 How do I find more of this video?

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@realdonat2s It was never about never backing down.
He learned his dominion.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Kyle Tibbitts @KyleTibbitts]

“A ridiculous red card suspension was overturned. We now have to play against the full American team, it’s not fair.”

— Belgium who was awarded a fake penalty against Senegal a few hours before

[Meg Brock @MegEBrock]

He’s right. The main point is there was no foul called on the field.

Thats why the straight red card was so egregious.

The purpose of VAR is to evaluate a call on the field—not to create new calls. If VAR is used to create calls it will destroy the game of soccer.

The most corrupt thing about all of this is the referee who disregarded the rules and tried to kneecap the USA in TWO games.

Anyone with TDS can go ahead and cry harder while the actual rules are being withheld.

[Stu Holden @stuholden]

So by suspending the “red card” they are admitting without admitting, that the decision was absolutely wrong (which we knew). But to do this 24 hours before the game is quite a thing and will create a stir in Belgium no doubt. Right outcome, wrong process.

Crazy turn of events.

[Andy Herman @AndyHermanNFL]

FIFA pretty much getting this wrong every step of the way is so FIFA.

-Should have been a yellow on the field
-Used the wrong VAR process
-Poor decision to give the red after the review
-Insane to not have a better appeals process
-Horrible process and took too long to suspend the red

All entirely avoidable. Remarkable.

We’re on to Belgium.

[Josh Chavis @JoshChavis65]

Seeing a lot of “Belgium should feel cheated if they lose” takes from people who were not saying “the US should feel cheated if they lose” because their star striker was red carded improperly over some complete bullshit.

You should want to see the best vs the best. Period.

[JT @jltho]

To all the Europeans clutching their pearls over this after spending the last several days Eurosplaining the sport to us, let me explain it to you.

Even if Balogun deserved a red (he didn’t), the referee misused VAR under FIFA’s own rules. That resulted in a red card that couldn’t be appealed.

FIFA then correctly used Article 27 to review and suspend the ban because the initial VAR error led to an unappealable decision.

[Fermsy 🎒 @Cryptoboyy_Aji]

Boomers had it rough too.

High interest rates in the 80s.
Recessions. Hard times.

I hear you.

But you also had:

Pensions that actually paid out.
College tuition you could cover with a summer job.
Houses that cost 3x your salary not 15x.
Healthcare that didn’t bankrupt you.
One income that could support a family.
A job market that rewarded loyalty with stability.

We’re not saying you didn’t struggle.

We’re saying you struggled and still landed somewhere.

We’re struggling and the landing keeps getting further away.

That’s the difference.

And no amount of avocado toast jokes changes the math.

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@rathor7_ Would

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@Ichiebillionz Sounds like the Rock is on ketamine

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@BillyP67312 @esoteric_joke Gotta pay to play bruh

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@im_jaimiesmiles @JaimieSmi55713 Broken link?

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

Wayne Dyer shares a powerful lesson using the orange analogy‼️‼️

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@heyshipz Even swearing I can say “a fucking dog you moron”

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@xFleXy_ Call of duty. Ronin.

Call of duty. Medieval

Call of duty. Doom

Call of duty. Pandora

Buy the rights, make the games.

When Erik the Red shows up to slay black ops bro in multiplayer with a 6 foot axe, maybe they’ll have something new.

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@rukky_nate The company I work for. I’d buy that.

[Dale Johnson @DRJohnsonPNW]

@arabornot Justice doesn’t prevail bc it doesn’t really matter if the lawmakers, police, and “ruling class” don’t fear the rule of law.