Well, last week the team took the next step, opening the team shop to fans who wanted to get their pictures taken in the advertising format. Some of these pictures were posted on the team's Facebook site, and they're so much fun I had to repost some of them here to give you a feel for them, starting with these young Portlandia-somethings. Perfect way to begin; very Timbers Army
I don't know why I like the look on this guy's face so much. It's almost...pained? Confused? I don't know, but the combination of the look and all the fan paraphernalia is the interesting part for me.
Whoa. Does she jump off the page at you, or what?Some people can look devastating anytime, anywhere.
Oof.
This guy looks so awkwardly serious, and his little girl looks so...well, like a little girl in a strange place with a father or grampa holding an axe.Yep.
These two look like they're planning to kidnap Justin Bieber. Lot of teen stuff going on here.
The Women. Does this look like three generations of Timbers Army troopers or what?
I love that this guy turned out in his business suit; I hope he was just at the office downtown and popped out for lunch to get his picture taken.
I am in love with this woman; she's SO intense and dark; she practically lights the page with black fire. There's something about a woman who looks this serious, smart, and intent, I dunno what it is, but she's a knockout.
Timbers; American Gothic.
There's one of these guys in very crowd of guys under forty. No, under fifty. Sixty? No, in any crowd of guys. Period.
The Portland Couple; a little gauche, a little cool, a little attitude, a little sweetness.
What can you say? The only thing cuter than a cute kid is a cute kid with an axe.
I like to end with this woman because she seems to be everything that I think about when I think about Portland; neat, small, smart, kind of cool, a little undisciplined. Nerdy in a sexy way, sexy but in a nerdy way. Knows the game but knows there's more to life than the game, but knows that the thing about soccer is that the game IS like life; a wild rumpus with a purpose, hard work, inspiration, discipline and chaos, moments of shattering joy interrupted by moments of bottomless despair.
The town is ready, the team is ready, the fans and supporters here are ready; we ARE Timbers.I don't know about you, but I'm already excited! Let's go, Timbers; "Rose City 'Til I Die!"
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"[She]knows that the thing about soccer is that the game IS like life; a wild rumpus with a purpose, hard work, inspiration, discipline and chaos, moments of shattering joy interrupted by moments of bottomless despair."
Chief: That you could impute all of this to the lady in the semi-Jacobean, semi-paisley shirt dress is an astounding feat! You make me feel like it is so! Your passion is evident and indomitable.
Ah, you would be an ad writer par excellence, the Maddest Man among Mad Men :)
I missed my calling; I should have been selling vacuum cleaners or aluminum siding...
No, no, nothing so quotidian. I believe today they would exploit your talents in the emerging cougar market, selling .1 oz. bottles of beauty elixir for $100 bucks a pop. (Actually, it would have to be something much grander than that ...
My problem would be that women are beautiful as they stand; short and tall, slender or curvaceous, bold and shy...I wouldn't want to sell them anything to convince them they need to "change".
I am a fool for your sex, and that is both my strength and my weakness.
I do see you love women, something most lovely and which can neither be feigned nor hidden.
I have the same admiration for good men (I s'pose one could say, for good women, as well, though in a more abstract way.) I deeply appreciate when people do their best to make their fellows feel wanted and appreciated.
I always smile when I think of you and your most eloquently phrased admiration of the fairer sex. I am most heartened to know there are such men in the world (rare though you are.) I would wish that such sentiment would only meet with its kind, were this world fair and kind.
Well, I have my bride, who is fond for my foolishness and delights when the fool is in good fooling. So in that respect I have all the requite I need.
The difficulty is in resisting the temptation of the world full of strong, smart, winsome, delectible women such as yourself; I could, were I susceptible to flights of fancy, wish that I could, like Krishna, make a multiple of myself and thus be true to every one...
Your words always delight me :) There have been times when the kindness of your words alone have kept me on even keel (we can have no idea of the good we do for another, which is why I think kindness a very good policy.)
I am happy that you have found a suitable mate. But were you make multiples of yourself, I would be in the receiving line :)
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