One way to spend an evening
Jul. 11th, 2007 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clarentineFor those wondering if I ever do anything fun*, fear not. I failed to get my words yesterday for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
novel_in_90. And why, you may ask? Why, because there was a soccer game yesterday evening. An important** soccer game. A game in which my team, the Richmond Kickers (http://richmondkickers.com/), sent the LA Galaxy home and ended LA's bid for US pro soccer's Open Cup. This is a Big Deal; the Kickers are a Division 2 team, two rungs in the hierarchy below LA. (US men's soccer goes MLS, Division 1, Division 2, PDL, and then the upper echelon of club teams.)
Not only did we beat LA, but the fans finally managed something whose lack I've been bemoaning for quite a while now: we got a chant going, and we kept it going. The MLS teams manage this quite well, but then they have a lot more fans who come to every game and join their voices together. Richmond manages a pretty fair turnout on average - about 2000 people - but last night we had in excess of 4500, and it showed. I'm surprised I can talk today. I put that early adjutant training to good use on game nights. *g*
So now I'm catching up on my words (well, I will be, once I finish this) for yesterday and getting today's words on paper. The fourth round of the Open Cup won't be played until early August, and the Kickers' next game in that series will be away, so we won't get to duplicate the experience of having an entire stadium chanting the same words. The odds are even worse that we'll survive the fourth round than that we'd make it out of the third. But there's half a regular season to go, and lots of soccer yet to be played.
Go Kickers!
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*My definition is not necessarily yours.
**See above.
novel_in_90. And why, you may ask? Why, because there was a soccer game yesterday evening. An important** soccer game. A game in which my team, the Richmond Kickers (http://richmondkickers.com/), sent the LA Galaxy home and ended LA's bid for US pro soccer's Open Cup. This is a Big Deal; the Kickers are a Division 2 team, two rungs in the hierarchy below LA. (US men's soccer goes MLS, Division 1, Division 2, PDL, and then the upper echelon of club teams.)Not only did we beat LA, but the fans finally managed something whose lack I've been bemoaning for quite a while now: we got a chant going, and we kept it going. The MLS teams manage this quite well, but then they have a lot more fans who come to every game and join their voices together. Richmond manages a pretty fair turnout on average - about 2000 people - but last night we had in excess of 4500, and it showed. I'm surprised I can talk today. I put that early adjutant training to good use on game nights. *g*
So now I'm catching up on my words (well, I will be, once I finish this) for yesterday and getting today's words on paper. The fourth round of the Open Cup won't be played until early August, and the Kickers' next game in that series will be away, so we won't get to duplicate the experience of having an entire stadium chanting the same words. The odds are even worse that we'll survive the fourth round than that we'd make it out of the third. But there's half a regular season to go, and lots of soccer yet to be played.
Go Kickers!
________
*My definition is not necessarily yours.
**See above.
