It's like a contest. Try and guess the next banana peel NIGHTMARE APE WAYNE ROONEY, England's
Ambassador to Football and redemptive bicycle kick specialist, will throw into his own path. Will
he get a tattoo of Mike Tyson Chewing Evander Holyfield's Ear on his hairy back? (AHHHHNT: My guess
last time, which was admittedly wrong; instead he hashed opened a leg just to watch it bleed and
thereby abandoned his national side when most they needed him).
Ruud Gullit is growing back his famous moustache in support of men's health charity Movember.
Movember, the month formally known as November, challenges men across to show their support for
men's health by growing a Mo (slang for moustache) throughout the month, and this year Ruud Gullit
will be rising to the challenge by growing back his iconic moustache.
By Chris Wright
Presenting: The latest installment in the never-ending (and slightly past-it's-sell-by-date)
Manchester 'billboard wars'.
A large digital billboard has been glaring above Piccadilly Gardens in the city centre reading
'Welcome to Carlos, Manchester', which has appeared courtesy of the United Supporters' Trust
described on their website as a 'warm-hearted message from some old friends'.
By Chris Wright
Presenting: The latest installment in the never-ending (and slightly past-it's-sell-by-date)
Manchester 'billboard wars'.
A large digital billboard has been glaring above Piccadilly Gardens in the city centre reading
'Welcome to Carlos, Manchester', which has appeared courtesy of the United Supporters' Trust
described on their website as a 'warm-hearted message from some old friends'.
Manchester United fans put a billboard mocking on Carlos incident teasing Manchester City fans. The
billboard was in Manchester "city center" on Friday evening.
I didn't really understand the joke fully till I saw this picture which was was the billboards of
Manchester City in 2009 welcoming Carlos Tevez to the club
I have to add, for a reason or another, no matter whatever he did, I really never liked Tevez.
Everybody loves Tim Tebow. Denver Broncos fans REALLY love Tim Tebow. A fan upset with Broncos
head coach John Fox for not playing Tim Tebow has purchase two billboards to show his support.
Check out the Tim Tebow billboards pictures below.
These billboards are up in Denver and, honestly, are really ugly.
The posters are back Remember the heady days of the Manchester billboard wars of 2009? Well,
they're back. Salford's Photoshop freedom fighters have been spurred into action by the news that
released Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves has undergone a medical at Manchester City.
The England midfielder is no stranger to medical examination as [.
Last month during our travels to Malaysia, we tweeted a photo of Gerard Pique on a
billboard as we were driving to the stadium. Many of you asked us what exactly he was
doing and we finally have the answer! Pique was promoting the new Nike Tiempo Legend
IV boots (with a lot of SWAG, Moc Moc!
Image Source. Cheers tinaanna17.
Here's a pure football pairing we wholeheartedly support: Seattle Sounders midfielder, Servando
Carassco, and USWNT player, Alex Morgan, are dating. For the past 3.5 years, actually!
In an interview with the Seattle Times, Miss Morgan's MLS rookie boyfriend recently told
how proud he was of her performance at this past Women's World Cup.
By Chris Wright
Posted without comment: Santos' billboard, advertising the club's upcoming World Club Cup jaunt
a tournament that is due, it should be pointed out, to take place in Japan in mid-December...
We used to get made to stand in the corner for doing things like that at primary school just
saying.
Credit to Joshua Mayers for digging up this photo that was apparently taken by SoundersFC staff
during the team's visit to Los Angeles. In an interview with the Seattle Times, Servando Carrasco
explained it this way: "That was hilarious. We were pulling up to the hotel in L.A. and of course
we get the red light right (before we) turn left to the hotel and there's a huge Sports Authority
and there's a billboard of her outside.
Nike, long one of the greatest supporters of women's soccer in the United States, has done it
again. Witness the HUGE billboard of Abby Wambach currently residing at 34th and 7th in New York
City. How cool is that? Answer: Very.
"Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is."- Rollo May
For the first few years of Toronto FC's existence, the club, so desperate for a positive spin,
dined out on the media propelled designation that BMO Field had "
the best fans in the
league". Boisterous, loud and loyal, the supporters were the only thing worth putting on a
billboard to promote a club so bereft of quality on the pitch.
The Houston Dynamo planted its flag in Dallas a couple of weeks ago with the above billboard to
build the hype for this weekend's match against Texas rival FC Dallas.
The Red Stripes started their response by flying a "Dallas Til I Die" banner over Houston's
Robertson Stadium, and now and their fans have gotten into the act.
Kudos Houston, kudos. After placing a billboard in Dallas saying they are two times better, the
Houston Dynamo marketing folks put this little ad together. Well done.
We're still waiting on FC Dallas to bring a response to the table. The clock is ticking Dallas,
come on!
The Cascadia rivalry gets most of the attention in MLS, but Dallas and Houston are doing their
best to promote the matches between the two teams. The Dynamo recently purchased a billboard
mocking Dallas' lack of championships and prominently showcasing the two Dynamo trophies. Houston
is not the first MLS franchise to purchase an ad in opposing territory, but this represents the
first battle in what promises to be a season long PR war between the teams.
Since this is the inaugural edition of a new daily post, I'll give it a proper introduction!
Welcome to Orange Slices, your daily stop for a roundup of all the Houston Dynamo links and
news. I'll do my best to scour the Internet and find all the news related to the Dynamo that's out
there and I encourage my readers to submit stories either through the comments or via email at
dtblogstaff[at]gmail.
Schadenfreude may not be edifying, but it certainly seems to be a particular preoccupation of the
football fan. Time was when goading your local rivals was confined to a selection of
uncomplimentary chants and maybe the odd rude gesture. Not any more - the bar appears to have been
raised considerably.
First shot of the new war. 2010.Looking to all the great games this weekend, one stands above the
rest. The Cascadia Rivalry. The Seattle Sounders are hosting their 30+ year rivals the Portland
Timbers. Expect this one to be three things: loud, physical and damned exciting.
Just as the New York/LA game was billed as a battle of the league's most expensive and start
studded teams, this game is billed as the rivalry that never sleeps.
This billboard got things started last year but Saturday's contest with Portland and Seattle
will be an entirely new thing for the league.
As we saw last night, week night is already underway but the weekend slate of games is
jam-packed. Eight games on Saturday and one lone game on Sunday make for one busy weekend.
We know Major League Soccer wants to shove rivalries down our throats, and for good reason too
as they are a big money maker for them and the clubs involved. The Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas are
starting to turn up the heat on their Texas rivalry here this year, ahead of their first meeting
later this month.
Oh. My. God. Check out this tweet and image just sent by Dynamo Senior Vice President Rocky
Harris:
@dynamorocky: @fcdallas rivalry begins now. Check out the billboard we are installing
in Dallas. Go @houstondynamo! http://twitpic.com/4r1sho
Prouder of my team I could not be.
On twitter last week, I noted the Dynamo's reliance on their cheerleaders (the Dynamo Girls) in
marketing their Party Zone for the first game this year:
Which is eh, but not in itself worthy of a full blog post. However, Amanda at Needs More Kittens
points out that the Dynamo are swapping out actual female fans for Dynamo girls in their promotion
of a soon-to-be-released supporters section of their website:
Amanda:
So, at first I wasn't thrilled with this photo because of how it sexified the female
supporters - I'm a Houston fan and in Texian Army, and while there are a lot of attractive women
around the tailgate, I don't think there are that many half-shirts.
The season is still 10 days away, but branding exercises set in place by our team of marketing
staffers have long been in place. Whether in the form of an ad welcoming Charlie Davies to DC, a
billboard in Adams Morgan, a promotional video truck circling the city, creative packaging for
season ticket delivery, or grassroots activation in action, the talented cast of Kyle Sheldon,
Boris Flores, Amanda Farina, Ben Mahler, Jamie Siegel and Andrew Minucci are at the root of the
project.
Looks
like Irina Shayk's hot arse has scored the Sports Illustrated 2011
Swimsuit Issue cover. (Image via @grantwahl)
Regardless of what you may think of Cristiano Ronaldo's hot chick
'o the day, there's no denying this is a major coup for her and a
major inspiration for those of the toned and tanned who dream of
riding on the coattails of their rich, famous and well-gelled other
halves.
If you fancy an unorthodox spring vacation this year and feel like eschewing the beaches for a
trip to Chechnya, this is the scene which will greet you at the airport: a giant billboard of Ruud
Gullit, known these days for mediocre coaching and head firmly planted in his own ass.
Hopefully everyone had a better weekend that your humble Dynamo blogger had thanks to a
wonderful cold that kept me basically incapacitated for the better part of the last four days...but
enough about me.
The Houston Dynamo completed their first week of pre-season training and resume their schedule
today.
Being coach of Seattle, I'm supposed to despise everything that comes out of Portland. But
whatever. I'm a carpetbagger. And I like Portland's marketing because I actually remember it and
I'm not a fan of the team. Also, they know how to leverage old-style media with the web. The
billboard in Seattle?
Via Facebook: "Today and tomorrow, from 4 PM Midnight, The New York Cosmos will be unveiling a
digital billboard of epic proportions in Times Square to celebrate King Eric Cantona taking the
throne at the New York Cosmos."
Naturally that brought to the CultFootball mind the following aphorism: "When the seagulls
follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
John Rooney, the younger brother of Manchester United star Wayne Rooney, has been in South
Florida this past weekend plying his skills in the 2011 MLS Combine where he scored a goal Monday
(see above video) during a 2-0 win for his team.
This is the final chance for Rooney and prospective draftees to impress MLS coaches ahead of the
MLS SuperDraft on January 13 in Baltimore.
Call Coppertone and get little Shane a contract. We need that gorgeous little face on a billboard.
