For weeks, buddies of mine kept asking if I was going to go to the last of the WCQs, the game in DC vs. Costa Rica on 10/14. Nah, I had to tell them–South Africa, what if there’s an emergency trip to Seattle in November, pumpkins, the budget’s not there. Then JetBlue got in a [...]

Do not miss this interview with the Houston fan who did the Davies banner that Landy stole postgame. The line about doing a banner so you have a voice in the crowd sums it up perfectly.

The night before I flew down to DC for the US-Costa Rica game, word came that Charlie Davies was seriously injured in a car accident early that morning. Immediately, fans mobilized to get tributes to him set up for the game, and people asked me if I was going to do a banner. I initially [...]

Click for bigger: It’s not half-naked players in a champagne bath, but it does have a dumbass fan standing on a square car while talking on the phone.

Two weeks after I got back, here’s the grim and frostbitten report from the dumbest soccer-related vacation I’ve taken to date. You can follow along in the gallery as you read.

I’ll get around to finishing the Norway adventure story at some point, but first, look who turned up in the Fort this past weekend: click for bigger Angela Hucles and the banner I modeled after her. (Since I got asked this at the game, yes, I know the skin tone of Columbia in the banner [...]

Remember this thing from last September? Those two banners finally debuted this evening.

Taken right after an irritating Revs home loss: L-R, fans of: Houston, New England, New England, DC. I’m short

Hey man, nice shirt, got one at home just like it.

“So, wait, why’s Shalrie Joseph holding one of your cats?” That’s easy: He was here to grab a bunch of shirts we’d had run up to sell on his website. I’d had a couple of people ask me over the course of last season about putting my banners on shirts, and every time, I had [...]