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Parkdale
05-13-2011, 09:48 AM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576319570556983628.html

funny stuff.


Until recently, Seattleites had plenty of reasons to feel superior: A diet that includes mushrooms and berries foraged from pristine local forests, a commitment to fixed-gear bicycles, fair-trade coffee, facial hair and the best attendance of any city with a Major League Soccer team in the country by a landslide.



This season, Seattle Sounders fans aren't feeling quite so special anymore, thanks to a new MLS club with an eerily similar, comparably rabid and equally rain-impervious fan base that also hails from a progressive city in the Pacific Northwest.



The Portland Timbers are 4-3-1 in their inaugural MLS season, tied with the Sounders in the Western Conference standings. And though their newly renovated stadium can't quite hold 20,000 fans (the Sounders drew a league-record average of 36,173 fans to Qwest Field last year) all four of the Timbers' home games so far have sold out.


Now, as Portland gears up to play Seattle Saturday for their first-ever MLS match, both camps are kicking around a new dilemma: How to work up a healthy hatred for fans who, in so many ways, look and think exactly alike.



"You can't really say our beer's better than their beer. I mean, Mac & Jack's is way better than say, Deschutes, but still," said 23-year-old Sounders fan Josh Nelson during a home game on a drizzly afternoon last month, referring to popular microbreweries in Washington and Oregon, respectively.

Parkdale
05-13-2011, 09:51 AM
brilliant!


For the most part, Seattle fans say any similarities they share with Portlanders are due to the fact that Portlanders are simply "wannabes" who have imitated them for years. "They are very envious of us—they have a little-sister complex," said Sean Geiger, a 26-year-old army reserve from Olympia, Wash., waving a Sounders flag and explaining that most of the Timbers' following are "wine-drinking, cheese-eating yuppies" masquerading as soccer fans.


and yes... a good sense of humour is required

Nodoubtguy
05-13-2011, 09:54 AM
ha.....Can we claim the hipster north title??

Fort York Redcoat
05-13-2011, 09:58 AM
^That's up to you and Phonzo to decide and rule with a hipster fist.

s2cazz
05-13-2011, 10:00 AM
But if a hipster claims to be a hipster doesn't that make them a wannabe?
I'm confused

BFin
05-13-2011, 10:01 AM
You guys will need to up the number of emo concerts you go to, and get Joe to put Pabst on tap.

Phonzo has the shoes quotient locked down.

Whoop
05-13-2011, 10:02 AM
I could see some in Vancouver trying to claim they're hipsters.

Parkdale
05-13-2011, 10:03 AM
But if a hipster claims to be a hipster doesn't that make them a wannabe?
I'm confused


a hipster would never 'claim' to be hip.

they're just 'ahead of the curve'

Parkdale
05-13-2011, 10:04 AM
You guys will need to up the number of emo concerts you go to, and get Joe to put Pabst on tap.



PBR is way too mainstream. It either needs to be a local organic microbrew or Labatt's Stock Ale.

spark
05-13-2011, 10:31 AM
Yes this reminds me of a story about the hipster who walked into wrongbar and said "This place sucks, it's full of hipsters!"

Parkdale
05-13-2011, 10:38 AM
oh wrongbar.

I remember 10 years ago when it was a West Indian Cricket Club.


yes, that was a very hipster thing of me to say

London
05-13-2011, 10:45 AM
is phonzo trying to become the first Hipster ULTRA, some would believe so

Thrillos
05-13-2011, 11:08 AM
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?

....


Its a really obscure number, you've probably never heard of it.

Whoop
05-13-2011, 11:12 AM
http://homepage.mac.com/oatmeal/MAF/maxes/rimshot.gif

TorontoGooner
05-13-2011, 12:06 PM
I went to a Kills concert last week, does that help with the Hispter count?

Parkdale
05-13-2011, 12:08 PM
^yes, because I've never heard of them.

CretanBull
05-13-2011, 12:11 PM
I went to a Kills concert last week, does that help with the Hispter count?

It would have, if it was 2005.











:D

Heathen
05-13-2011, 03:31 PM
From the crowd shots at Qwest Field I definitely wouldn't describe them as hipster. I hope Portland pummel the hell out of them.

Redcoe15
05-15-2011, 12:25 AM
I just watched the match. And, IMO, it lived up to the hype. It was an entertaining game with a lot of end to end action. And the crowd out there was more boisterous than usual - perhaps helped out by the many Timbers fans at Q West Stadium. The best part was when Futty Danso scored the equalizer at the 65th minute to make it 1-1 and piss off the Seattle crowd. Can't wait to look forward to the rematch in Portland two months from now. It'll be fuckin' insane. :D

DavydMT
05-15-2011, 12:34 AM
they looked very good. here is the video of Seattle display, no photos or videos of Portland display yet.

2a9aB8i92SQ

Brooker
05-15-2011, 12:40 AM
"They're hippies," said Seattle fan Nic Greer, a 32-year-old garbage man with a lip ring who wears a chicken mask on his head to every game and a jersey that reads "Chicken Man" across the back.

Err... wha?

Marvin
05-15-2011, 02:52 AM
they looked very good. here is the video of Seattle display, no photos or videos of Portland display yet.

2a9aB8i92SQ

http://www.ultrasworldwide.net/ultras/2011/05/north-america-seattle-sounders-vs-portland-timbers-ecs-tifo/

photo is at the bottom of my page for this. they had a card display. epic stuff from ECS

Parkdale
05-15-2011, 06:50 AM
wild tifo.

could you imagine TFC FO letting us cover the video board? nope.

koryo
05-15-2011, 08:02 AM
I went to a Kills concert last week, does that help with the Hispter count?

Nah, they've been around for ages now :D

phonzo
05-17-2011, 08:20 PM
is there a plaid black hoodie...i want it

james
05-18-2011, 06:00 AM
wild tifo.

could you imagine TFC FO letting us cover the video board? nope.

you also see how seattle have the help from the FO by letting them hang the 1 banner up with wirring and all, are FO would say thats to dangerous probably. I know Portland FO also work with there team fans by doing similar things.

trane
05-19-2011, 04:14 PM
Parky must be annoyed that we do not have the title of leading hipster supporters.

TorCanSoc
05-19-2011, 04:39 PM
Seattle fans v Portland fans, who're the best fans? I think the Portland guys seem edgier. Their 1st home opener anthem was spectacular. But no arguing with 36K/game for Seattle. They're both good. Its good for the league. SEA-VAN-POR good to be a footie fan in the pacific northwest.

gmacpheetfc
05-19-2011, 04:57 PM
vancouver fans are worst of the lot