Sports I Vote Master Chief for the Team’s Mascot
posted by May 28 at 13:33 PM
onToday in completely unsurprising news:
The new Major League Soccer team in Seattle has found a naming sponsor: Microsoft.The team announced Wednesday that the Seattle Sounders FC will be sponsored by Microsoft and Xbox Live 360. Microsoft will pay a reported $20 million over five years to be the Sounders’ sponsor.
The club’s official website has a pic of the lime green jersey.
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Fuckin' sweet. As if I already didn't want one.
Master Chief for Mascot is the best idea I've ever heard.
I. AM. SO. JEALOUS. A futbol team and a green jersey?
Fucking Paul Allen gets EVERYTHING.
At least we get a real company as a sponsor, as opposed to whatever the crap is on those LA jerseys.
I'm picturing the players in weird electronic collars, while Allen, Gates, and Balmer are up in a skybox with control pads.
I want Balmer for the mascot.
"C'MON! KICK IT! WOOOOOOO! YEAH! DEFENSE! DEFENSE! DEFENSE! DEFENSE! DEFENSE I... LOVE... THIS... TEEEAAAM!" (monkey dance)
Either that or the Blue Screen of Death.
A Microsoft endorsement is huge, actually. This is especially true when you consider the hostility America has towards professional soccer.
Have a giant Xbox ad on the jersey makes me want to watch games less, not more.
@8 is right.
If they go with the xBox logo we'll call them Green River Killers ...
Microsoft sucks. The green jerseys suck. I was actually looking forward to having the Sounders in town but they've just ensured i won't spend a penny on tickets or merchandise. Fuck Microsoft.
@5:
So, are you saying we should now refer to multiple billions of dollars as "Quatloos"?
And Master Chief, sure, whatever. Just so long as they don't trot out "Bob" or that stupid paper-clip helper thing...
Oh, boy, we dodged a bullet there. Having Microsoft is GREAT news. Don't think so? Look at some of the other fucking sponsors around the globe. At least it's not a cheeseball internet gambling site.
I love how soccer has fully embraced the sponsorship thing. It won't be long before they sell the rights to not only name the stadiums and put logos on jerseys, but name the teams themselves. It's really close in soccer, with the tiny team logo and huge sponsor logo. I guarantee my kids will be going to games like the Seattle XBoxes vs. the Cincinnati Googles.
I mean, it's so obvious!
The Portland Chevy Blazers
The Denver Ford Broncos
The Tampa Bay Pepperidge Farms
9. We will?
@12 No kidding, I was worried it was gonna be a bank or something.
@13 Oooh, or the New York Red Bulls.
for some reason when i read master chief, i think master shake, who would be a far superior mascot.
@8
I'd prefer to have MS on my jersey than an insurance company.... have you seen the ManU jersey's?, big giant ad for AIG and a tiny little crest over the heart.
that said, all brit football jersey's that ive seen are horrid, why anyone would pay good money to advertise for a random company they dont give a damn about is beyond me.
Wurm
Is it even legal for there to be a soccer team? I heard all the fans are hooligans.
@15: or Red Bull Salzburg, which is worse, I think.
The shirt-sponsor thing is something I bring up to Europeans (usually Brits, since I'm only good at English) when they get upset about stadium names. Yes, all our stadiums are named, but all your teams have ads on the front of the damn jersey.
Terrible uniforms. Why bother with them at all? Just call Golden Palace, ask them to sponsor the "new" team.
@13:
You mean like what they have been doing in Europe (and the rest of the world) for ages? Futbol has always had tons of sponsorship.
@21, in America we call it "soccer." Gracias.
I was hoping they'd go retro and bring out the jerseys from their days in 70's playing in the NASL, back when we lost Soccer Bowl '77 to the New York Cosmos, starring Pele.
I don't like the jersey and probably won't add one to my collection.
@14 - yes, we will. Because you can't bleed on lime green jerseys ... everyone knows that.
You know who else has sponsor logos on their jerseys are arena football players. So the moral of the story is if you want a logo jersey, play a sport very few people care about.
Mexican League teams have logos on the back, now too, and possibly the sleeves as well.
It's just a thing that soccer does. It doesn't matter. As long as it's not embarrassing. Xbox isn't embarrassing.
Red Star Salzburg is SERIOUSLY embarrassing. They changed the name of the TEAM.
But then, Japanese League baseball teams are named after their sponsoring companies -- for the longest time I thought that "Nippon Ham Fighters" were Ham Fighters from Nippon, which is cool, because they fight with or for ham, but they're actually the Fighters from Nippon Ham. Boooo-ring.
The blue on the sides of the shirt are potentially very slimming.
This whole discussion illustrates one reason why soccer is unappealing from a spectator's perspective: no breaks. If I'm at a game, I only have one chance to get a beer or take a piss. If I leave during the action, I might miss the only goal of the whole freaking game. If I go during halftime, it's a fucking zoo.
This is why all other major American sports are preferable: plenty of breaks so fans aren't stuck, which ensures plenty of commercials on TV, which means players don't have ugly jerseys.
You'll hear the roar of the crowd during the goal and then you can rush the field with the rest of us and get in on the action.
@28: what spectators? You mean the millions upon millions of spectators that, you know, enjoy watching? That certainly outnumber the amount of spectators that watch American sports?
Besides, American sports are slow and go on forever. Why does an American football game, which should take an hour, go on for three or four? There's barely any action, too, there's so much standing around, stopping, and starting. Basketball's okay, but going to games is kind of boring, it's too forcedt- music piped over speakers, endless corps of dancers, shooting games...it's kind of lame.
xbox 360 = xbox reach around edition.
Logically, 29, we will also rush the field.
Just remember, nobody lets the xBox sponsor people off the field until they've been tossed on top of the goal.
@30, millions of spectators with stronger bladders than I. Also, millions of spectators that live in other countries.
People who complain about how football (or baseball, for that matter) is "boring" or "slow" are really saying they don't understand the sport.
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