The End of San Jose?

[BetterThanChivas]

http://www.mlsnet.com/MLS/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20051215&content_id=49527&vkey=pr_mls&fext=.jsp
It's true

[SokkerNut]

Originally Posted by BetterThanChivas

http://www.mlsnet.com/MLS/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20051215&content_id=49527&vkey=pr_mls&fext=.jsp
It's true

HMMMMMMM the Smurfs here in Houston. Okay, time for them to sign DJ!!!!! One good thing, I'll get to see RSL play in person--<:O)

Article from our paper here:
http://houstonchronicle.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/3527562.html

Now the big discussion is to what the call the team. I can't wait to see what they come up with. I hope it's a lot more original than our football team.

[Merrill]

This is a sad day. I'll always have my memories of 2003, in the stands in San Jose and later in LA, watching the quakes bring home the Rothenberg trophy. :down:

[SoccerPrime]

Its not quite over yet.
The move is not the end of Major League Soccer in the Bay Area, though, as the league and the City of San Jose have signed a Letter of Intent to bring an expansion team to town as early as 2007.
and
"We believe that professional soccer can be very successful and will return to the Bay Area. This will be a major priority of mine and the rest of the league office over the next year."
and
Garber said Thursday the league has had productive meetings with Oakland A's owner Lewis Wolff about becoming the investor-operator of the new Earthquakes and that discussions with Wolff and others will continue after Jan. 1, 2006. The commissioner noted that with some extra time to sort out the Bay Area's MLS future, a deal that will benefit both the city and the league can be ironed out. It will also help to put an end to the revolving door ownership of the team.
and

In anticipation of the return of the Quakes, the league is retaining the club's name, colors and competition records to be restored when San Jose is granted an expansion team. An identical situation existed when the NFL's Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore in 1996; the Browns returned to the league as an expansion team in 1999.

[montgjules]

Congratulations, Houston. Who's going to be my backup team to cheer for now?

[SoccerPrime]

Well until SJ comes back, I will officially hate all Western Conf teams.
Revs and Fire are my other "semi-root-for" teams.

[montgjules]

I sincerely hope you meant all "other" Western Conference teams.

Houston is closer to Florida than Salt Lake, so I can never be sure....

[SoccerPrime]

Originally Posted by montgjules

I sincerely hope you meant all "other" Western Conference teams.

Houston is closer to Florida than Salt Lake, so I can never be sure....

LOL
Of course I didn't mean RSL.
And I'll leave it at that.

[Jose Luis Luviano]

Originally Posted by montgjules

Congratulations, Houston. Who's going to be my backup team to cheer for now?

You don't hate us. You hate yourself for loving us.

[Jose Luis Luviano]

Originally Posted by SokkerNut

HMMMMMMM the Smurfs here in Houston. Okay, time for them to sign DJ!!!!! One good thing, I'll get to see RSL play in person--<:O)

Article from our paper here:
http://houstonchronicle.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/3527562.html

Now the big discussion is to what the call the team. I can't wait to see what they come up with. I hope it's a lot more original than our football team.

I have 31 favorite NFL teams. (I like them all except for South America's Team, the Dallas Crackheads.)

So I like the Texans' name and even their Salvador Dali-designed helmet.

I think that a cool name for them would be "Texas National Team", to appeal to Texas nationalism.

The Astros, the Texans and I'm pretty sure that the Rockets got a billion dollars of Corporate Welfare when you add it up.

So it's not too far of a reach to see Houston's MLS team get some Welfare, too.