North American Pro Soccer 2020

[Maroon]

Saw this on twitter. Wanted to share:

 

 

[Red Wolf]

We spent all this time talking about Miami not existing, when it was Nashville all along who lacked a corporeal form.

[FiddySicks]

You know, it would be really nice for MLS if there was an already approved of expansion team that had a rock solid privately funded stadium plan in place approved by local and state governments going back several years. It would also be really nice if they had a contingency plan in place just in case they had to join the league a year (or two) sooner than expected.

 

If only that very scenario existed, say, in the capital of the most populous state in the country...

 

God! That would be such a convenient thing for them to have in a time like this. 

 

IF ONLY...

[JayMac]

2 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

You know, it would be really nice for MLS if there was an already approved of expansion team that had a rock solid privately funded stadium plan in place approved by local and state governments going back several years. It would also be really nice if they had a contingency plan in place just in case they had to join the league a year (or two) sooner than expected.

 

If only that very scenario existed, say, in the capital of the most populous state in the country...

 

God! That would be such a convenient thing for them to have in a time like this. 

 

IF ONLY...

I really do enjoy your (VERY JUSTIFIED) bitterness towards MLS.

[FiddySicks]

4 hours ago, JayMac said:

I really do enjoy your (VERY JUSTIFIED) bitterness towards MLS.

 

I assume it’ll fade once we kickoff for our first match. But, I’ve talked to quite a few people about the way the league runs, and they basically all say “get used to it”. 

 

 

 

That being said, though? It’s kinda hard not to feel a little bit annoyed when the team that leapfrogged us because their bid was “so much better” is at risk of folding before they even start. 

 

Luckily, we had a plan for a scenario similar to this. It felt like Miami was going to be that team, but I’ll gladly take “Vegas with a twang”’s spot instead! (LOVE that nickname, BTW). 

[tBBP]

The crazy thing is that Nasvhille is so full of transplants that the only twang you'll hear is from the stereotypical country kickers n' the honky tonks on lower Broad...and even half of that is manufactured.

 

(If more people knew just how manufactured so much of Nashville is these days...)

[Digby]

11 hours ago, Buc said:

(If more people knew just how manufactured so much of Nashville is these days...)

 

I mean, so is every prosperous city at this point, but that doesn't stop soccer from banking on civic pride as a matter of course.

[Brian in Boston]

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has dealt Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami a blow in its quest to use the Inter Miami CF abbreviation of its brand.

Leadership of Serie A side Football Club Internazionale Milano - aka, Inter and Inter Milan - has sued MLS, arguing that the term Inter is synonymous with their team and no one else. 

On Monday, the USPTO found that Major League Soccer's argument - namely, the fact that a number of clubs around the world use Inter in their branding - did not meet the burden to show "that MLS has valid proprietary, or ownership, right in the name, Inter" for use by the league's new South Florida-based franchise. 

Could Beckham-and-Company's soccer club be looking at a name change within a year of launch?

MLS, Inter Miami lose key argument in Inter Milan lawsuit   

[gosioux76]

17 minutes ago, Brian in Boston said:

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has dealt Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami a blow in its quest to use the Inter Miami CF abbreviation of its brand.

Leadership of Serie A side Football Club Internazionale Milano - aka, Inter and Inter Milan - has sued MLS, arguing that the term Inter is synonymous with their team and no one else. 

 On Monday, the USPTO found that Major League Soccer's argument that simply because a number of clubs around the world use Inter in their names did not meet the burden to show "that MLS has valid proprietary, or ownership, right in the name, Inter" for use by the league's new South Florida-based franchise. 

Could Beckham-and-Company's soccer club be looking at a name change within a year of launch?

MLS, Inter Miami lose key argument in Inter Milan lawsuit   

Between this and Nashville's stadium drama, this is turning out to be a pretty calamitous expansion round for MLS. 

 

 

[Corvus]

Oh hi, 

 

[Dilbert]

16 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

It’s kinda hard not to feel a little bit annoyed when the team that leapfrogged us because their bid was “so much better” is at risk of folding before they even start.

Luckily, we had a plan for a scenario similar to this. It felt like Miami was going to be that team, but I’ll gladly take “Vegas with a twang”’s spot instead! (LOVE that nickname, BTW). 

Im just as annoyed as you are that they leapfrogged us in Cincinnati as well. Nippert isnt ideal for us long term but its better than Yankee Stadium. I assume Hornet Stadium would have been a temporary option for Sacramento.

[SFGiants58]

2 hours ago, gosioux76 said:

Between this and Nashville's stadium drama, this is turning out to be a pretty calamitous expansion round for MLS. 

 

 

Revoking Miami (some time ago) and Nashville should have been done. Both are an embarrassment to MLS.

[GDAWG]

2 hours ago, Corvus said:

Oh hi, 

 

 

That's not a bad logo, now we need to get jerseys, coaches and players because playing in the Spring 2020 CPL season is a bit of a rush (I still think they should have began play in the fall).

[Walk-Off]

On 2/9/2020 at 1:36 PM, Red Comet said:

You know, if you're someone who wants soccer in the US to be taken seriously, this has to be about the worst thing to happen when Las Vegas with a Southern accent is basically saying "Thanks, but no thanks" to your league.

 

On 2/10/2020 at 9:47 PM, FiddySicks said:

It’s kinda hard not to feel a little bit annoyed when the team that leapfrogged us because their bid was “so much better” is at risk of folding before they even start. 

 

Luckily, we had a plan for a scenario similar to this. It felt like Miami was going to be that team, but I’ll gladly take “Vegas with a twang”’s spot instead! (LOVE that nickname, BTW). 

 

Speak for yourselves, @Red Comet and @FiddySicks.  My own preferred comparison of Nashville to another US city is "Los Angeles without a tan" (to invert a phrase that Atlanta-born Shawn Mullins wrote and sang in the last verse of his 1998 song "Lullaby").

 

On 2/9/2020 at 7:58 PM, Buc said:

You're right in that probably about 0.2% of current Nashvillains care anything about stock car racing, but we all know how the "good ol' boy" attitude works. (And if you're going to mention Bell Buckle and Bucksnort, you'd have to throw in Christiana, Parsons, Counce, Lobelville, Dyer and Paris, too! ) 

 

Well, @Buc, I was going for a list of small towns in Middle Tennessee that satisfied the rule of three, was alliterative, consisted entirely of patently countrified names, and arranged the names in, at least in my opinion, an ascending order of hillbillyishness.  As a bonus, my list happened to arrange the towns in a geographically clockwise order: Buffalo Valley to the east, Bell Buckle to the south-southeast, and Bucksnort to the west-southwest.

 

Now, to get back on topic ...

• On February 7, Colby Sledge, the Nashville Metro Council member representing the vicinity of the city's fairgrounds, filed a proposal for an ordinance that would validate a contract to demolish the part of the fairgrounds where Nashville SC's permanent stadium and an adjacent mixed-use development are slated to be built even if Nashville Mayor John Cooper keeps refusing to sign the contract.  Consideration of the bill by the whole Metro Council could start as early as February 18.
• Cooper wrote a guest commentary for The Tennessean's February 9 edition in which he argued that what he has done and what he has not done with regard to the Nashville SC stadium project are driven by a desire both to control costs to Nashville's government and to protect and enhance "historical uses" of the fairgrounds.  He cited a section of the Nashville Metro Charter that protects the use of the fairgrounds for auto racing, among other purposes, as justification for his "working to find a path for racing’s success" at the fairgrounds and his supposed securing of "additional space to allow for necessary [Fairgrounds Speedway] improvements."
• Nashville SC has established a special website, Twitter feed, and Instagram feed to encourage the public to join forces with the team to pressure Cooper to let the stadium project's construction begin as soon as possible.  Yes, the website includes an online petition, a link to Cooper's work email address, and a listing of the phone number for the Nashville mayor's office.
• Even the board that oversees Nashville's fairgrounds complex is mutinying against Cooper over the Nashville SC stadium matter.  In a meeting on February 11, the board's members voted unanimously to send a formal letter to Cooper to urge him to allow the construction of the stadium and the accompanying mixed-use development -- including the demolitions of the unused buildings that the stadium and the mixed-use development are to replace -- to proceed as soon as possible, as well as to call on him to "decouple" any and all discussions about potential improvements to Fairgrounds Speedway from the soccer stadium project.

[GDAWG]

 

[Red Wolf]

Great. I get a whole new gimmick about how Nashville doesn't exist and now it's gone after one week. What is this, the WWE?

[SFGiants58]

21 minutes ago, Red Wolf said:

Great. I get a whole new gimmick about how Nashville doesn't exist and now it's gone after one week. What is this, the WWE?

Whelp, that’s what you get when the writers rebel. At least you have the Inter Miami trademark dispute?

[Brian in Boston]

The Tennessean: Mayor John Cooper, Nashville FC reach new agreement on MLS stadium at Nashville fairgrounds

* Mayor Cooper will "immediately" green light demolition at Fairgrounds Nashville.

* Parcel 8C - the 2.4 acres closest to the Fairgrounds Speedway racetrack - will remain a component of the mixed-use development that's part of the stadium project.

* Both the mayor and Nashville SC leadership have agreed to a "set of principles" governing how Parcel 8C will be designed and developed so as to create an open plaza that will serve a variety of operations at the fairgrounds - namely, the soccer stadium and an adjacent, renovated Fairgrounds Speedway.

* Nashville SC will pay $54 million more in potential expenses, including $19 million in infrastructure costs and $35 million in stadium debt payments.  

[Red Wolf]

1 hour ago, SFGiants58 said:

Whelp, that’s what you get when the writers rebel. At least you have the Inter Miami trademark dispute?

 

I don't have much else, sadly. Seeing Miami play actual soccer for realsies is going to be devastating.

[BrySmalls]

On 2/11/2020 at 1:04 PM, gosioux76 said:

Between this and Nashville's stadium drama, this is turning out to be a pretty calamitous expansion round for MLS. 

 

 

 

On 2/11/2020 at 3:11 PM, SFGiants58 said:

Revoking Miami (some time ago) and Nashville should have been done. Both are an embarrassment to MLS.

 

This is the same league that "awarded an expansion club"  to Jay Precourt and his cronies to play in Austin, TX after they were unsuccessful in uprooting the Crew from Columbus, OH.

Austin, TX was nowhere on MLS's expansion radar before this kerfuffle.