The Great Hipster Soccer Showdown

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...556983628.html

funny stuff.

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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.

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brilliant!

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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.

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

ha.....Can we claim the hipster north title??

^That's up to you and Phonzo to decide and rule with a hipster fist.

But if a hipster claims to be a hipster doesn't that make them a wannabe?
I'm confused

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.

I could see some in Vancouver trying to claim they're hipsters.

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Originally Posted by s2cazz

But if a hipster claims to be a hipster doesn't that make them a wannabe?
I'm confused

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a hipster would never 'claim' to be hip.

they're just 'ahead of the curve'

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Originally Posted by BFin

You guys will need to up the number of emo concerts you go to, and get Joe to put Pabst on tap.

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

Yes this reminds me of a story about the hipster who walked into wrongbar and said "This place sucks, it's full of hipsters!"

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

is phonzo trying to become the first Hipster ULTRA, some would believe so

How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?

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

http://homepage.mac.com/oatmeal/MAF/maxes/rimshot.gif

I went to a Kills concert last week, does that help with the Hispter count?

^yes, because I've never heard of them.

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Originally Posted by TorontoGooner

I went to a Kills concert last week, does that help with the Hispter count?

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It would have, if it was 2005.











:D

From the crowd shots at Qwest Field I definitely wouldn't describe them as hipster. I hope Portland pummel the hell out of them.

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

they looked very good. here is the video of Seattle display, no photos or videos of Portland display yet.

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"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.

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Err... wha?

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Originally Posted by DavydMT

they looked very good. here is the video of Seattle display, no photos or videos of Portland display yet.

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http://www.ultrasworldwide.net/ultra...bers-ecs-tifo/

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

wild tifo.

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

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Originally Posted by TorontoGooner

I went to a Kills concert last week, does that help with the Hispter count?

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

is there a plaid black hoodie...i want it

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Originally Posted by Parkdale

wild tifo.

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

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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.

Parky must be annoyed that we do not have the title of leading hipster supporters.

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.

vancouver fans are worst of the lot