OT: Los Angeles Football Club | Clipper Nation + The 3252

50CalClips · Post #1 » by **50CalClips** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:35 am

Nothing like LAFC and the 3252.

Los Angeles may be in the midst of it's Greatest Era in Sports -- Across almost every sport, So Cal has legitimate Championship aspiration, from the Clippers to the Dodger to the Rams to LAFC.

Good times...

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50CalClips · Post #2 » by **50CalClips** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:40 am

We just clinched a Playoff spot, first team to do it this season.

THIS IS AN AWAY GAME and the chants that you're hearing are from the L.A. FANS!
The "3252" travels.

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esqtvd · Post #3 » by **esqtvd** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 4:24 am

Not that I give a hang about soccer but Ballmer should try to scoop up any and all non-Laker affiliated sports fans in SoCal.

FTR, to prove I'm not a brute, I became a Ft. Lauderdale Striker fan back in the day and even attended a number of games back when there was no pro baseball or basketball in South Florida. I learned the rules and had several favorite players. Teo was amazing! And a midfielder at that!

I became a Strikers fan without ever becoming a soccer fan, which I still believe is the worst possible of all human sports. [The best thing about humans is our hands, and so here's a sport that won't let you use them. Moronic.]

You don't have to know anything about basketball to see that Kawhi and PG are amazing. You can enjoy these Clippers the way I enjoyed the Strikers. Ballmer should buy ads in every sports program and on every sports program in LA. The Anteaters!!

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ADD: Gerd Mueller. Could only move 3 feet in either direction. But if you put it on his foot in front of the goal, he was a cannon. The keeper was shredded quicker than the Maginot Line.

(LOL, is that Miloš Teodosić or what? A Euro import past his prime, can't play the game at both ends anymore [if he ever could], but still dangerous in his way.)

(And collecting some easy American dollars!)

https://funwhileitlasted.net/2018/05/05/1977-1983-fort-lauderdale-strikers/

50CalClips · Post #4 » by **50CalClips** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:36 pm

We Got Will Ferrell!

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50CalClips · Post #5 » by **50CalClips** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 4:08 pm

esqtvd wrote:Not that I give a hang about soccer but Ballmer should try to scoop up any and all non-Laker affiliated sports fans in SoCal...

I became a Strikers fan without ever becoming a soccer fan, which I still believe is the worst possible of all human sports. [The best thing about humans is our hands, and so here's a sport that won't let you use them. Moronic.]

You don't have to know anything about basketball to see that Kawhi and PG are amazing. You can enjoy these Clippers the way I enjoyed the Strikers. Ballmer should buy ads in every sports program and on every sports program in LA. The Anteaters!!

Truthfully, I've never been much of a Soccer/Football* fan... I'm not that big of a fan even now. But yeah, the sport is almost secondary to the Team itself, in a sense. The experience is up there, as fun as any other sport/team I've followed.

LAFC really feels like the Clippers of MLS. The team is just a bunch of good guys, easy to root for, exciting to watch (there's also the "little brother" thing. We're good, but we're the upstarts).

Uncle Steve Ballmer and Mr. Clippers, Jerry West, would approve of how LAFC is run...

LAFC Earns Multiple Award Honors After Historic First Season -

50CalClips · Post #6 » by **50CalClips** » Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:51 pm

Aug 21, 2019 vs San Jose Earthquakes

So good...

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M-V-P-!

M-V-P-!

M-V-P-!

Full highlights:

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50CalClips · Post #7 » by **50CalClips** » Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:13 pm

BIG game this weekend!

vs

SUN, AUG 25 -7:30 PM PT -- Banc of California Stadium

Perhaps the most intense "Battle of L.A." across all sports... up there with Clips-vs-LeLakes

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Akklaim1 · Post #8 » by **Akklaim1** » Mon Aug 26, 2019 7:48 pm

I'm kinda on the fence of this LA rivalry. I am a Galaxy fan through and throufh. However, i don't support all of my fellow Galaxy fans because they havee this Laker fan syndrome. They like to treat the other fans like second class citizens. I ain't about that life. I know what it feels like to be treated that way comiing from a Clipper fan. It is amusing that Galaxy fans get really pissy when LAFC fans call them Carson Galaxy while they conveniently call LAFC fans Chivas 2.0.

50CalClips · Post #9 » by **50CalClips** » Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:06 pm

Akklaim1 wrote:I'm kinda on the fence of this LA rivalry. I am a Galaxy fan through and throufh. However, i don't support all of my fellow Galaxy fans because they havee this Laker fan syndrome. They like to treat the other fans like second class citizens. I ain't about that life. I know what it feels like to be treated that way comiing from a Clipper fan. It is amusing that Galaxy fans get really pissy when LAFC fans call them Carson Galaxy while they conveniently call LAFC fans Chivas 2.0.

There was a time that I cheered for Eddie Jones... around the same time that I cheered for Jorge Campos. But -love- sports fandom is a funny thing. I've come to realize that I never chose to be a Clippers fan (over the other team), the Clippers chose me.

With LAFC, it's all been a big honeymoon... no "clutter"... no long-time futility... none-the-less, the Clippers and LAFC are kindred spirts, as sports teams and as fans bases... at their essence.

P.S.
There's nothing that the "other" teams (the glam teams, the "historic" teams, the "older bother" teams) could say to us that could bother us. I eat it up, I enjoy it, makes me chuckle inside.

50CalClips · Post #10 » by **50CalClips** » Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:08 pm

RIVALRY WEEK in MLS...
L.A. vs Carson was the prime-time game.
Great time. The rivalry is only getting bigger and better.

Start around 3:00 minutes in...

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50CalClips · Post #11 » by **50CalClips** » Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:33 pm

Aug 25, 2019 vs Carson Galaxy

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Extended highlights

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50CalClips · Post #12 » by **50CalClips** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 12:06 am

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50CalClips · Post #13 » by **50CalClips** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:27 pm

Check out these -Lakers fans- Carson Galaxy fans celebrating *not losing* to their "little brothers"...

They chant "You Can't Beat Us"... they're happy to get a Draw (hee, hee)...

I love it.

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50CalClips · Post #14 » by **50CalClips** » Wed Sep 4, 2019 1:19 am

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50CalClips · Post #15 » by **50CalClips** » Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:37 pm

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Akklaim1 · Post #16 » by **Akklaim1** » Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:25 pm

I hope you realize that most of your fellow LAFC fans are Laker fans

50CalClips · Post #17 » by **50CalClips** » Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:55 pm

Akklaim1 wrote:I hope you realize that most of your fellow LAFC fans are Laker fans

I think everyone realizes that most people in So Cal are Lakers fans (as opposed to Clippers fans).

Most Galaxy fans are Lakers fans... most USC Trojans fans are Lakers fans... most UCLA Bruins fans are Lakers fans... Dodgers, Angels, Rams, Chargers, Kings fans, etc.

However...
At the heart of it, LAFC and the Clippers are kindred spirits.

50CalClips · Post #18 » by **50CalClips** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:21 pm

So it begins...

**CITY OF CHAMPIONS**

MLS Supporters Shield = Los Angeles Football Club

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50CalClips · Post #19 » by **50CalClips** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 10:35 pm

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Celebrating with the players on the field (the pitch) are the fans (supporters)...
L.A. Football Club really does it right.

50CalClips · Post #20 » by **50CalClips** » Mon Oct 7, 2019 9:57 pm

HISTORIC SEASON in Major League Soccer...

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In every other country, in every other Football/Soccer League in the world, this would be the end of the season. The team that finishes with the best record (most points) are the Champs... but because the is the U.S./MLS we have to have a Playoff to determine things. So the record-breaking Champions of the "Supporter Shield" still has unfinished business... the "MLS Cup" is next.