i'll watch any mls games if they are on, i've followed dc united before tfc existed, so i tend to watch more dc matches than any other team
I only watch/follow TFC games
I watch/follow any and all MLS games
i'll watch any mls games if they are on, i've followed dc united before tfc existed, so i tend to watch more dc matches than any other team
I can't vote in this poll without an "occasional viewer" option.
Agreed...Originally Posted by flatpicker
I watch at least 1 other MLS game per week... plus I watch all the highlights in MLSnet.com.
But before TFC, i didn't give a shit about MLS at all... all I knew was there was some American league where the league owned all the players.. hahah. amazing how one's interests can shift.
I still don't get why they can't have the same revenue sharing system in place yet allow teams to have full control on player signings?
but that's another topic...
I don't watch any other MLS. I don't really care about the other teams and for me, sports without emotion is just a bunch of guys running around after a ball or skating after a puck.
I don't really watch much epl any more either. Since leeds got relegated, there's no team I actively like. I'll always hope for anyone to beat any of the big 4, and I always want the promoted teams to do well, but i just don't care enough, i didn't bother with a setanta subscription, and I'll have the sportsnet game on in the background on a saturday morning, but don't really pay too much attention.
I think that in some ways knowing the league is partially required.
Its always good to know the top players of the other teams and how dangerous they are so that we can focus really appropriate chants towards them
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before i run this off topic, the theory is that by being single entity and owning all the contracts, MLS can avoid antitrust laws... thus giving the players less power in negotiations... Other NA leagues have individual businesses in different states, so they can collude against players, prompting anti trust laws to ensure collusion doesn't happen. MLS can't collude against itself, since it's single entity. In law, MLS is just 1 business not 15. Pretty smart, I must say.
back to your regularly scheduled topic....
I watched MLS on an occasional basis before TFC, and I'll continue to do so with non-TFC games.
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It's not just theory. MLS won a major court case in it's early days against several players who challenged it under anti-trust law. MLS won that battle completely.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
I'm an MLS addict. Just about every game.I try to catch as many games as I can. It is a fun league to watch most of the time.
Plus, know they enemies
I used to when the FTAs were up but not anymore. I'll watch from time to time online but that is it
mls match centre...watch the games whenever you and the picture quality is great...i cant get enough of this game so i watch any matches that i can get...
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I watch TFC games + games that interest me. I have watched pretty much every Seattle game this season.
Yeah I have this too, it is honestly incredible. I wish the EPL had something like this, I wouldn't hesitate to even pay double what it is now.
If its on TV I'll probably watch it, but I'm not going out of my way to watch another teams game.
i watch all games that i can see,
you gotta to know who your going up against
I have MatchCentre as well ($20!) and catch a fair few games during the European offseason, but I'd definitely watch more if they were on proper TV or the quality was better. I find MatchCentre to look awful. It's about on par with JustinTV and streams of that nature. I've just read the Beckham book and feel kind of invested in their season, now, so I'll probably catch as many of the remaining Galaxy games as I can just out of sheer curiosity if I'm not otherwise occupied.
They don't air the HDNet games anymore; I think the contract expired. Those were absolutely gorgeous, though. It was a shame they were always on Saturday nights, as I'd miss quite a few if not most of them, but if I was home I'd always tune in.
I understand the appeal of partisanship, but watching TFC becomes more interesting an experience when you have an understanding and appreciation of the players on the opposing teams as well as the general narratives in play throughout the league during the season.
Watch most footy matches on television if I'm home. Watch all TFC games.... dont really get many/any MLS games outside of TFC and not willing to pay to do so.
Used to have a different tv/satellite provider and watched some games. If I'm home depends on what else is on. I will probably check out the all-star game and watch the playoffs on the net if not shown on TV.
Now... only follow players on my fantasy team through box scores.
Let's just say I even watch USL games if they are on...
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I tried a few times to watch other games, but when you don't have an emotional interest it really hits home how bad MLS is compared to European footie, both in terms of quality of play and quality of broadcast/commentary. Like someone else suggested, if the game involves a close rival of TFC in the standings I will try to get emotionally involved. Otherwise it's pretty hard.
I doesn't help that none of the games are televised on the major networks (I only have basic cable) and that I have to watch them on bad-quality streams.
A particular problem with MLS is that the playoff structure renders the individual regular season games so much less consequential. So, first of all, you as the viewer realize that there are very few genuinely big or must-win games, so it's a bit harder to emotionally invest yourself in anything. Beyond even that, though, the players themselves are surely aware that these games aren't a matter of life and death, and at times there's a real perceivable lack of urgency on the pitch.
i think that's changing as fewer and fewer teams can make the playoffs with the recent expansion. games are more meaningful because so many teams are fighting for those final spots.
also, given that things are so close, I think it forces teams to concentrate a bit more at the top, as they know a losing streak can send them right to the bottom.
it seems to me that some player do slack off once they are assued of a playoff spot. it's not a guaranteed thing. maybe this parity thing does work lol
I also wonder how EPL players feel about playing for mid to lower bottom table games near the end of the season (minus those effected by relegation)
I'd like to think that MLS players are competitors, and like all good sports players hates to lose a single game.
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I used to follow DC United and Houston Dynamo, but not as much now as I did before considering that Toronto has it's own team. Since TFC was born it's been more Toronto than anything. Once and a while watch a Houston game, but I do keep tabs on what's going on in MLS.
I would watch more if they were on TV,(channels I get) and I am so damn busy with TFC/RPB that I never seem to have time.
I watch/follow about a quarter of MLS games through match center and other sources.
i watch a game or two a week. as long as it isnt Seattle.... the announcers suck their dick way too much. (now i know how people felt when we came into the league)
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