Looks Like We Are Being Invited To A Northeastern Cup/shield Competition

[franchise646]

Fans DC UNITED, Philadelphia Union, New England Revolution all seem to want to invite us to this east cost version of the Cascadia Cup along with the Red Bulls. The Red Bulls can't seem to agree among themselves on joining this thing, but I think they are in. Also everyone is looking for a name for this thing.

 

[Fantazma]

Fans DC UNITED, Philadelphia Union, New England Revolution all seem to want to invite us to this east cost version of the Cascadia Cup along with the Red Bulls. The Red Bulls can't seem to agree among themselves on joining this thing, but I think they are in. Also everyone is looking for a name for this thing.

like a pre season thing? i thought there was already something in place between DC and Red bulls

EDIT: sorry just re read it...lol i dont like these "rivarly" cups i think its lame. Just let the rivalry games be that rivalry games no need to give a "trophy" for it every year.

 

[franchise646]

No it would be just the east cost version of the Cascadia Cup.

 

[MikeDatTiger]

Make it the Metropolitan Cup. Everyone loves that name from hockey, right?

But seriously, I think it's a good idea.

 

[einwindir]

Eastern Cup or Atlantic Cup seems like the most logical name right?

I guess you could go with the Appalachian Cup as well but that seems really forced.

 

[LionNYC]

DC, Philly, New England, New York, New Jersey...

The Colonial Cup

 

[franchise646]

Eastern Cup or Atlantic Cup seems like the most logical name right?

I guess you could go with the Appalachian Cup as well but that seems really forced.

Atlantic Cup would work but it is already the name of the Red Bull-DCU rivalry. I like the idea of calling it the Nor'easter Shield/Cup/League.

 

[einwindir]

Atlantic Cup would work but it is already the name of the Red Bull-DCU rivalry. I like the idea of calling it the Nor'easter Shield/Cup/League.

At the risk of sounded pedantic, Penn is more Mid-Atlantic as is DC.

LionNYC Colonial is a good one. I think we actuay had a very similar conversation prior to the league start where this was a fairly well received name.

 

[franchise646]

At the risk of sounded pedantic, Penn is more Mid-Atlantic as is DC.

LionNYC Colonial is a good one. I think we actuay had a very similar conversation prior to the league start where this was a fairly well received name.

Consider how we as Americans are proud of the fact we rebelled against being Colonies, I dont think the public at large will like to go with Colonial Cup.

 

[mgarbowski]

Consider how we as Americans are proud of the fact we rebelled against being Colonies, I dont think the public at large will like to go with Colonial Cup.

I think it cuts the other way. People use the word "colonies" to evoke the local pride in being the ones who engineered the successful revolution (even though it was people who lived here hundreds of years ago).

 

[franchise646]

I think it cuts the other way. People use the word "colonies" to evoke the local pride in being the ones who engineered the successful revolution (even though it was people who lived here hundreds of years ago).

Yeah I don't that will take off. Neither will anything about the I-95.

 

[Goodfella]

meh.

 

[Keith Putnam]

The Corridor Cup. Alliteration always wins!

 

[413Blue]

Let's focus on this thing called the "MLS Cup" and possibly even the "US Open Cup", then I guess we can have some other "Cup". Honestly though, I think it's too deep to have 5 teams from 4 markets involved. It just doesn't excite me at all.

 

[Gotham Gator]

The Corridor Cup. Alliteration always wins!

This was my first thought, and I like it, but I like Colonial Cup more.

DC, Philly, NE, NJ, NY. That's a lot of teams.

 

[mgarbowski]

How is this going to work, if implemented? Do we just play the games we otherwise play and whoever earns the most points in direct matches among those teams gets the cup?

 

[Konrad]

How about the 1776 shield? And yes Atlanta wasn't a city at the time of the birth of our country, so we won't have to worry about that.
Also where did you guys hear this news from?

 

[joe]

How is this going to work, if implemented? Do we just play the games we otherwise play and whoever earns the most points in direct matches among those teams gets the cup?

Basically. Cf the Cascadia Cup for Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_Cup

 

[SayWhat44]

Anyone else getting cup fatigue? Enough, this is meaningless and stupid. Its not like any of these games will be at home anyway.

 

[SoupInNYC]

Anyone else getting cup fatigue? Enough, this is meaningless and stupid. Its not like any of these games will be at home anyway.

Ummmm, roughly half of the games would be at home..... This isn't any extra games or anything, this is taking games that are already being played, and announcing a winner among the five.