Before settling in for tonight's match between D.C. United and the Colorado Rapids at RFK Stadium, I had a chance to discuss ESPN's new slogan for its MLS telecasts with some of my friends in the press box.
"You're a soccer fan; you just don't know it yet," is what ESPN is foisting on the masses, something the hard core Soccer types I talked to earlier tonight weren't too happy about. It's a conversation I've had with hockey fans as well, most recently in Columbus last weekend where talk around the table concerned the NHL's inability to sell the game on its own merits.
In any case, after a time, folks started to come up with their own:
MLS: Plenty of parking
MLS: Demography is destiny
MLS: Your kids like Soccer, why not you?
In any case, email me or leave your suggestion in the comments box.
UPDATE: Off Wing photographer Ellen Blanchard has another suggestion:
MLS: 6.3 Billion people can't be wrong
Keep 'em coming.
Funny moment: We're in the middle of a lightning delay, and the PR people have switched some of the press box televisions to the U.S. -Argentina match from the Copa America. Right after Argentina tied the match 1-1, my buddy Brian Strauss from the Express stops by to say hello.
"Hey man, how's it going?"
"1-1. Argentina just scored"
Which is when I got the look that told me he was TiVoing the game.
Oops.
MLS: It kinda looks like hockey in slow motion, but that’s just because the field is so big!
MLS: Like baseball, only it’s fun to watch.
MLS: So what if the rest of the world calls it “football”? You wanna fight about it?
MLS: The “football” game that DOESN’T have John Madden.
MLS: It kinda looks like hockey in slow motion, but that’s just because the field is so big!
MLS: Like baseball, only it’s fun to watch.
MLS: So what if the rest of the world calls it “football”? You wanna fight about it?
MLS: The “football” game that DOESN’T have John Madden.
MLS: So, you can’t see the puck? Try a big frickin ball!
MLS: ESPN televises it!
MLS: Catch it!! with your feet…unless you’re the goalie…yeah.
MLS: Got a quarter?
MLS: Almost as good as League One! (Now with 100% more Beckham.)
MLS: The only football…er…soccer league where Landon Donovan can be a star. (Now with 100% more Cuauhtemoc.)
MLS: Soccer, without all those annoying fan riots. (Now with less Deuce.)
MLS: Not just for soccer moms and their kids.
MLS: You might see one of the Spice Girls in the stands.
MLS: Who needs relegation?
MLS: Does the product really matter?
MLS: Something to preempt.