Beers on hand: Washington and Oregon IPAs

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Like many downtown Chicago workers, I’ve opted to take a couple vacation days today and Monday, largely to avoid NATO-related inconveniences. Conveniently for me, this also meant I could catch up on various things that needed doing. Finally bought a Weber grill this morning for some outdoor veggie cooking action later in the summer, got … Read more

WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL SOCCER SUSPENDS OPERATIONS PERMANENTLY

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pitchinvasion: RIP WPS.  SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 18, 2012) –The WPS Board of Governors agreed today to suspend all League operations permanently and dissolve the League. “We sincerely regret having to take this course of action,” said T. Fitz Johnson, Atlanta Beat Owner and Chairman of the Board.The suspension of League operations will be effective … Read more

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We talk some more about the history of Section 8 and its dizzying array of sub-groups, who somehow manage to come together to get things done, despite what Marcin jokingly calls the “Balkanization” of the support. He speaks with pride, without boasting, of Section 8’s role at the forefront of the early TiFo displays to appear in MLS. We talk about his Polish roots and the passion for the game bred there – unlike Julio he doesn’t want to describe it as a religion, but does say wryly that maybe he and his friends are like “Buddhist monks chanting their mantras” – it led to culture clashes and misunderstandings in the early days of their appearance on the MLS scene, he says. Opposition security teams didn’t know what to make of their raucous presence and treated them as “the root of all evil.”

The original Section 8 Chicago chairman Marcin Tłustochowicz discusses the history of supporter culture in MLS. (via peel1909)