@BaronDestructo you want me to explain the video? How it's obviously special effects like Hollywood movies? Do you think the terminator actually happened too or what?
Among wild conspiracy theories, this is truly the wildest. Project Anchor is purportedly a secret NASA project preparing for a gravitational anomaly on August 12th, when Earth will lose gravity for 7 seconds due to the intersection of gravitational waves from two black holes. Prepare accordingly!
Ive been making movies and directing actors (famous and non famous) for over 20 years and if I had gotten this delivery, we would have been doing it again after I gave her more direction (something Nolan doesnt do)...this is not good...it is over the top and cringe-worthy ... #theodyssey
The disrespect is crazy. It’s not like he is going to play for another country he just didn’t get picked for the World Cup squad and he will continue to try to contribute to the USMNT and hopefully make the squad in 2030. Also he has 18 caps. Portland lost my respect for this.
Absolutely brutal. Almost feel bad for the guy.
Side note, who do these shit Portland fans think they are anyways? No one gives af about your ass team that produces no national team players.
one of the scummiest things @Topps has done is taken away the ability to use discounts on their products at gamestop. Can't redeem gamestop points to get some dollars off lol biblical greed....
The MLS has room to grow in a few ways, but 1 major thing sticks out:
The team naming conventions.
I’m watching a game between “San Diego FC” and “FC Dallas.”
We are not in Europe. We don’t call our soccer teams “football clubs.” Why the hell are we integrating foreign nomenclature into the top level branding of a team? It reads like we are trying to be someone else.
Beyond that, “FC Dallas” doesn’t even make sense in English. “Football Club Dallas” puts the modifier “Dallas” after the head noun “Football Club.” That is Romance language construction—grammatically common in Spanish or French, but not in English.
So not only are we using foreign terminology, we are also forcing foreign grammar into our brands.
And then the core of the issue: bucking a ubiquitous trend in all other American sports. Literally every other American team uses the same nomenclature:
City + Mascot/Nickname
The Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Red Sox, Washington Capitals…
It’s the city and a thing. It tells you where they are from and gives you some semblance of a brand to assign to the idea of the team.
“FC Dallas” gives you nothing. No imagery, no brand, just a bland technical “name” to use to refer to the team.
This is just one of the many “foreign” things about US soccer that just make it hard to get into as an American fan.
If you want to take over the American market, you have to be authentically American. The MLS simply does not present that way in its current form. If anything, they come across as wannabe Europeans.
Until the MLS manages to own its American nature, they will struggle.