Merritt Paulson; favorite Timber’s Army Tifo 2013

Above is PTFC owner Merritt Paulson, on twitter, answering questions from fans.  Merritt’s favorite Tifo was also mine.  The “Can’t buy me love” tifo was raised by the Timber’s Army before the Seattle Sounders vs Portland Timbers MLS regular season game on 10.13.2013.

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The Timbers won the game 1-0. on a Kalif Alhassan blast from the edge of the 18.  Check out the super snazzy slow-mo home video of the goal.

Wanna know what kind of Community effort it takes to make Tifo?  Watch this amazing video about the making of the October 13, 2013 tifo.

Robbie Rogers is gay: Let’s get back to Footy!

I am happy with how the MLS/ESPN/American FC* addressed Robbie Rogers being the first publicly out gay professional athlete in North America.

As much as I have been bothered by soccer coverage/commentary in the past, true professionalism and humanism was exuded by everyone involved with the Robbie Rogers story.

Thank You Robbie Rogers and Portland’s LGBT FC* for having a conversation that ultimately led to Robbie returning to the Beautiful Game.

Kudos to the Timbers Army and other MLS supporters that ushered in this monumentally minor acceptance of basic humanity to the MLS FC*.

* FC = Footballing Community

Update:  Robbie Rogers on Chelsey Lately: