Oh, I love that on so many levels. Was that a USL squad? I’m a pro/rel advocate and it drives me crazy that so many cool teams get dropped for boring corporate rebrands rather than being able to just ascend.

IMO the worst is Minnesota United, who clearly chose their club name so it could be abbreviated as MNU or MNUTD, which fools me every time it crosses the ticker and angers me the second I figure it out. 

After reading what the fans had to say I’m convinced you’re going to the Super Bowl.

Nothing I can put my finger on specifically, just a general sense of speeding through segments to get to more segments and novelties. To be fair, I didn’t notice at much this week, so maybe it was just early-season excitement. But I just got the sense like they were pressuring themselves to deliver something “more”…

I like it from a UX perspective, but I’ve noticed watching their Premier League coverage that NBC Sports seems a little...busy this year in rolling out new features.

the discrepancy between LAFC, LAG, NYCFC, Seattle, Atlanta Utd and Toronto FC and the rest will hurt gate receipts

LOL “the payrolls”, just take the cap off and see what kind of payrolls MLS can support.

I disagree 100%, it’s exactly because of their loyalty to older teams/ownership groups that this whole situation is happening. If they would just allow their precious sons and daughters to be relegated and other teams to be promoted into the league, no franchise would face the threat of relocation ever.

To say nothing of Sweden....

Never a fan of NCAA investigations but I feel like this is the next step in the rise of UMBC.

I feel like the real lede has been buried here — HST and Irsay used to party together???

Very excited to see how this post looks in 24 hours.

White people in the U.S. are largely descended from the English, as you can tell by the fact that most of them speak English and have English first names.

White people in the U.S. are largely descended from the English, as you can tell by the fact that most of them speak English and have English first names.

Came into the comments just to find the “Actually, PKs are good” hot take. Thank you for your kinja, sir.

Frenchman Benjamin Pavard—who cashes checks from, uh, Stuttgart

Gotta score two goals before you can win by two goals though.

Well, it’s a long game, and a stronger team testing its opponents’ defense until a weak spot is found is part of play. But more importantly, if you’re pushing 8-10 men into scoring position (as a team desperate for a win in stoppage time will do), you’re leaving half the field exposed behind you, and that’s really not…

I would take my dad’s first name, but change my last name to something more unique.

Unironically this though