OVERHEARD AT BMO FIELD: Dichio vs. The Hulk vs. Mortadella
Welcome back to another instalment of “Overheard At BMO Field” your regular eavesdropping on those strange snippets of actual conversation we’ve all heard floating around TFC Land. From strange to wacky to rather unsettling, here are this week’s #OHatBMO “Why aren’t they allowed to have last names in Brazil?” “You can fight Dichio. I’m not.” A:...
THE STARTING 11: Proposed Names for Hamilton’s NASL Club
“Pan-Am Ah! Pan-Am Ah-ha-haha-ha-ha!” No, TFC aren’t back in the Van Halen-utilizing CONCACAF Champions League but rather the Pan-Am Games are about to land in the Golden Horseshoe. Part of the sporting infrastructure built in Toronto and the outlying cities that comprise “Toronto Jr.” includes a new footy friendly-ish stadium – Tim Hortons Field – for our neighbours to the west, Hamilton. For...
OVERHEARD AT BMO FIELD: #OHatBMO
Those of us that have decamped in the stands of BMO Field since 2007 know that the home side hasn’t always done enough to keep everyone’s undivided attention at all times. It’s those quiet lulls in the crowd noise where a snippet of conversation wafts into your ears on the Lake Ontario breeze. It wasn’t really meant for you but nonetheless an amusing, alarming or downright strange sentence becomes a peculiar...
South Couch Report: Toronto FC vs Manchester City
It’s international friendly time! Fresh as daisies off their 2nd place league campaign, Manchester City are (briefly) in town to sell some shirts, expand the brand, thrill the locals with a great exhibition of football. Just before kick off and the crowd is sparse, there’s a few sections full of Man City fans, and one section full of drunk women in matching shirts, some of them with sashes and tiaras, and topless men with...
MASCOT HYSTERIA: The Apertura
What a load of fluff that was! The world’s finest point of plush pugilism has put another battle to bed and with that closes out the opening half-season – The Apertura for you fancy types – of the game you know and love – Mascot Hysteria. Not to fear though fans, your googly-eyed heroes will return later this year for “The Clausura” portion of the 2015 tournament and the eventual crowning of this...
THE STARTING 11: Other Legacies Tim Leiweke Could Leave Behind
If God forbid you ever get the news that you have one year left to live, immediately go out and promise everyone you meet you’ll buy them a beer in 366 days. People will think you’re a pretty righteous dude at the time and once they eventually find out there’s nothing but an empty, broken glass waiting you’ll be long gone and won’t care. In other completely unrelated news, MLSE CEO Tim Leiweke (Of the...
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