Current mood:	Fixin' for a fight
Current music:	Husker Du

MLS Wank
As at many venues where soccer/football/calcio/that game where 22 people kick around a ball for ninety minutes is played, Gillette Stadium, home to the New England Revolution, has a section cordoned off for the rowdy fans. Crowd interaction is a much bigger deal in soccer than it traditionally is in most US professional sports, and there's always been some grumbling between the crowds who want to sit quietly in the midfield to watch the game and the crowds who want to stand and make noise the whole time. At least once or twice a year, someone on the main Revs fan forum decides this horse just hasn't been beaten enough, and starts a whole new thread to wank about it. I should point out we're not talking European or South American style ultras/hooliganism here--this is mostly just about yelling stupid shit at the opposing GK to rattle him and amuse your buddies.

Here's this season's entrant, featuring:

• The initial poster missing the point immediately
  
• Debate about whether "you suck" is vulgar
  
• Multiple "WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN" scattered throughout the thread
  
• The above, only written in incoherent free-verse
  
• The above, in incoherent free-verse, spammed into another thread
  
• Reports that the Chicago Fire fans, who are usually much crueler and louder than us, are having the same wank
  
• Nobody picking up a deliberate attempt to derail
  
• Political spillover into another thread
  

Me? I figure every complaint about vulgarity from the fan section--and I'm usually front row center in it--is one more time I'll yell "I FUCKED YOUR WIFE" at the opposing GK.

(I'd say this is about as far from Harry Potter as it gets, but we do HP-related taunts when the Kansas City Wizards come through town. Don't ask about the thread in June that went all sorting hat)