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PTFC2K9: We Won the League!
Photo borrowed from the blog Jargon Scott Nishimura is all smiles. Click for more amazing Timbers pictures Hi Folks, your itinerant Timbers Blogger is reporting in from a remote jungle location. I had to bribe a monkey with cigarettes and a rickshaw driver with bananas to get to an internet cafe to post this, but […]
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PTFC2K9: The Streak is Dead, Long Live the Streak
The Portland Timbers went into Thursday’s game with a 24 game unbeaten streak in USL play—they hadn’t lost since the first game of the season—but also barely escaped Charleston 0-0 on the road the week before, playing a style of play that could be charitably described as lethargic. The Timbers were at the top of […]
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PTFC2K9: Occasional letters from an amazing season
I feel a special kind of sorrow when I don’t write about the Timbers after every game. I’m sure no one minds, yet I feel like I’m letting down the club and my fellow Army denizens who so proudly and voraciously promote the Timbers and associated causes. I feel especially bad for not covering the […]
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PTFC2K9: Epic Moments
Tomorrow, the Portland Timbers take on the Seattle Sounders in the second round of the US Open Cup. There is no deeper, more hateful, or hotly contested rivalry in American Soccer. These teams hate each other, and if the Sounders had fans, they’d hate us. As it is, they have customers, who are starting to […]
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PDX2K9: Three match Sunday
Most American Soccer fans were excited about Sunday because the US Mens National Team, so long the butt of jokes around the world, had pulled off an improbable win (3-0 against African Champions Egypt), followed by a Holy Fucking Shit Did That Just Happen? win (2-0 against European Champions Spain, whose squad collectively earn something […]
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PTFC2K9: A Whipping for the Ages
Jeeeez, am I late with this one. Pertinent news first, I suppose: the Timbers face the Montreal Impact today, 5pm at PGE Park. Be there. Even more Important, the Timbers face their nemeses, the Shittle Sounders, on Wednesday, 7pm, at PGE Park. That will be an event worth witnessing. Be there too. There’s also a […]
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The Ballad of Timber Jim
An Interview with Portland’s Most Beloved Mascot
THE USA is not interested in soccer. Sorry, Adidas, but it’s true. We’ll watch a reality show about David and Victoria Beckham, but a televised 90-minute soccer match? Forget it. However, to enter PGE Park when the Portland Timbers are playing is to enter a different world—where you can check out the type of debauchery […]