MLS officially let Austin FC into the league. Won’t be named Austin Crew SC.

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One of the many struggles that a loyal diehard fan can experience, apart from totally healthy athletes sitting out for “contractual reasons,” and they having you wasting a top 3 fantasy pick and a potential Fantasy Championship on them, is the sale of a team to a new owner who’s plans are to rebrand the team by relocating them to another city and in some cases more deserving city. I’ve got to say, as a Patriots, Warriors, Yankees, and (enter good hockey team), fan, I am always on high alert when news comes out on potential relocation of a professional team. In any moment, a team can go from the Seattle Sonics, to the OKC Thunder, from the San Diego Chargers, to the LA Chargers, from the LA Rams to the STL Rams and back to the LA Rams. From the Chicago Fire to the Bridgeview Bridgeport Bridgeview Fire. You get my point. No one is safe. Not even a relatively successful team like the Columbus Crew. And while the #SavetheCrew movement worked, Austin still got its own soccer team which was introduced yesterday.

First of all, I cannot look at Don Garber in the face without wanting to berate him with expletives about only allowing 3 designated players on each team. For those of you noobs, DP is basically players that you can pay a relative ton of money and it won’t effect the salary cap for each team, or so I’ve been told. A situation that LA Galaxy find themselves in having signed another DP when Zlatan was “supposed,” to go and play in AC or Inter or one of those Italian teams. But I digress.

Austin FC is to join the league in 2021, one year after Miami and Nashville expansion teams join the league. Apart from having an interesting look to them, oh who am I kidding those colors are god damn hideous. Black as a primary color just doesn’t work. How many elite soccer clubs in the world use black as their primary color? NONE. You already went and look like assholes for being called Austin FC rather than SC, you might as well steal a color way from someone else. It worked out for AC Atlanta United. HOWEVA! What I do love is the, “Privately funded 20k seat stadium.” Let’s face it, as much as fans want these brand new state of the arch stadiums like the new LA one or even Jerry’s world, what we don’t want to do is pay for it. Maybe we can get Mexico to pay for it, but god damn it, in the words of Bill Simmons, “I believe these billionaires should pay for their own F***ing stadiums.” Speaking of Bill Simmons, remember when the internet roasted him for his cringeworthy and corny chants. Well, Austin FC supporter group gave everyone a list of their chants for 2021, and boy oh boy, they have 2 years to fix it because boy is it a mess. Here’s a freebie “When the Oaks come Marching In!”

Well there you have it, your 27th MLS franchise. She’ll be a beaut. Can’t wait to see them place in the 9th to 14th spots for many years to come. Anyways, totally dropped the ball on MLS and NWSL draft recaps. Maybe I drop them soon. Maybe.

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