Fort Report

Pretty good night for the Revs on Saturday.  Winning 4-1 with a hat trick by a rookie is nothing to sneeze at.  The new look Fort went better than expected for the first week.  I’ll use a time-tested method to give my snapshot ratings:

Face: good, solid 7 1/2

Body: good, solid 7 1/2

Personality: good, solid 7 1/2

Can you believe Rosie O'Donnell is funny in this obscure reference?

Nobody expected the new setup to go off flawlessly, and it didn’t.  However, the area behind the North goal (which I’m starting my one man crusade today to … Continue Reading

Wow, that was a bad sequel.  And how dated are Space Soviets?  Not that 2001 was a great movie (how and why they went to a different planet than the novel which was written at the same time as the script is beyond me).  However, the year which was promised to be spectacular by 80’s era Hollywood has let me down thus far.  No Commie tanks rolling into Afghanistan (oh wait, that was 1985 in The Watchmen) err I mean Central America prompting some star-hopping concrete slab to set humanity straight.  No no, the big battleground in our country today … Continue Reading

Before the bitter memory of a disappointing end to the 2009 season is erased through holiday festivities, I thought I’d give a rundown of what I saw in The Fort this year, and offer up my hopes for next year:

In my opinion, 2009 was a year of slight decline for The Fort.  Lower overall attendance affected the numbers in our section.  Although a lot of the “pedestrian traffic” mitigating the “gap” issues of years past (the gap being a series of rows of people just standing and not participating), it’s hard to say The Fort sounded better than it did … Continue Reading

I came across the Free Beer Movement while listening to an episode of Waiting for Gaetjens, a podcast co-hosted by Revs color analyst Greg Lalas.  In a nutshell, the idea behind the Free Beer Movement is the best way to get people to become fans of American soccer is to lure them to a game with beer:
Like Soccer? Enjoy Beer? Have Friends? Do they enjoy beer? Do they like soccer?

If you answered “yes” to the first four questions, but “no” to the last one, then this is the site for you!

Welcome to the Free Beer Movement where … Continue Reading

Ok, that looks like an odd request.  I’ll get to it in a second.  First, I think I figured out what I want to do with this blog space.  A few months back, I thought I was going to be moving out of the area for a sweet job outside of Kansas City writing the training program for a new generation coal plant.  But alas, KCP&L acted rather peculiarly incompetent with the specialty firm that I was going to work for and pulled the contract, so I decided to use my GI Bill and get some schooling to help … Continue Reading

I am finding a hard time finding topics for this blog’s theme.  Oh well, I guess I’ll write about a guilty pleasure of mine: the state of lower league soccer in the US.  This article will cover it’s current state, how the local teams are doing, and a possible future for local sides.

MLS debuted in 1996 as a result of the 1994 World Cup hosting stipulation that there would be a first division league establish in the United States.  In between the Baggio field goal and Wynalda’s score, there was a resurgence in American soccer riding the coattails of the … Continue Reading

Been awhile since my last post.  Whatever.  As I used to tell newbs in the navy: suck it up nubs (non-useful bodies).  To be honest, I’m thinking about getting back into blogging about soccer, but I don’t really want to run a site like I did before.  So, in the meantime, I can get back to the series I started right here on the Midnight Riders site.

Today I’m going to talk about the essential of clothing which sets soccer fans apart from any other group of fans in America: the scarf.

The tradition of wearing a scarf to football started in … Continue Reading