There are so many good shots from everyone from both matches, I think we ought to have a place to collect all of them. I'm apparently the board advocate for scrapbooking threads in addition to international liaison.
I can't help it. I just want to document the amazing experiences we have had and will have. It's been incredible to go through this extended roller-coaster of a prologue and see it culminate in the amazing experience of yesterday. It still didn't seem quite real to me just yet, having not been able to see the team live. But from the moment I made the transfer to the D train at Columbus Circle, I started to feel it. I emerged on 161st street around 2:30, and the buzz was already in the air. I've never seen so much team garb on display. The proportion of people with visible NYC gear was huge, even given that most people had on cold-weather garb. I'd imagine it would've been even more apparent if the temperature would have cooperated.
Seeing that first goal go in is something all of us, either there or watching from locales across the globe, will share in our personal and collective memories. There's no more exciting moment in sport that seeing your team put one into the back of the net. It's such an all-encompassing joy that it provides. Glad to have shared it with you all, and the 25 random folks in section 215 I high-fived and hugged.
Thinking about this collective experience made me realize the importance of the temporal sharing of these moments, but it also reminded me how we as a community can strengthen our club even more by reflecting on how we collectively and individually experience being a supporter. In that spirit, I'd like to encourage supporter posts documenting just that. Whether it's pics, videos or a narrative prose (or poetry for that matter - Mix, have you joined here yet?), whether in-stadium or pub or around the family room, let's have them.
I can't help it. I just want to document the amazing experiences we have had and will have. It's been incredible to go through this extended roller-coaster of a prologue and see it culminate in the amazing experience of yesterday. It still didn't seem quite real to me just yet, having not been able to see the team live. But from the moment I made the transfer to the D train at Columbus Circle, I started to feel it. I emerged on 161st street around 2:30, and the buzz was already in the air. I've never seen so much team garb on display. The proportion of people with visible NYC gear was huge, even given that most people had on cold-weather garb. I'd imagine it would've been even more apparent if the temperature would have cooperated.
Seeing that first goal go in is something all of us, either there or watching from locales across the globe, will share in our personal and collective memories. There's no more exciting moment in sport that seeing your team put one into the back of the net. It's such an all-encompassing joy that it provides. Glad to have shared it with you all, and the 25 random folks in section 215 I high-fived and hugged.
Thinking about this collective experience made me realize the importance of the temporal sharing of these moments, but it also reminded me how we as a community can strengthen our club even more by reflecting on how we collectively and individually experience being a supporter. In that spirit, I'd like to encourage supporter posts documenting just that. Whether it's pics, videos or a narrative prose (or poetry for that matter - Mix, have you joined here yet?), whether in-stadium or pub or around the family room, let's have them.
