{"id":45420,"date":"2017-10-26T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45420"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T14:37:44","slug":"same-shit-different-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45420","title":{"rendered":"Same shit, different sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Continuing the tradition set by all of the other professional sports teams in the city of Atlanta: Atlanta United gets bounced from the MLS playoffs<\/a> with a loss to Columbus Crew SC<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to me writing this, I had thought about writing about how I really hoped that Atlanta United would have pulled the ultimate miracle of all expansion teams, and somehow managed win the MLS Cup.\u00a0 Not only would it have been an unprecedented performance of winning a championship in their first year of existence, but there would be something so gratifying about the expansion soccer team, breaking the \u201ccurse\u201d of Atlanta sports, and being the first team to deliver a championship to the city since the 1995 Braves, especially after the uber-meltdown of the 2017 Falcons in Super Bowl Lee.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a plan to twist my choice of words to ironically talk about how it probably had everything to do with the fact that ATLUTD had gargantuan fan support since their arrival, and getting into their games turned into Dragon*Con hotel registration, every single game, they were that hot of a ticket to get into throughout the season.\u00a0 And how ATLUTD was demonstrative of the power of fan support, attempting to shame the fairweathered Falcons, Braves and Hawks fans who only come out to support only when they\u2019re good.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, I was all ready to start writing the night prior, but because I don\u2019t really follow MLS or have any inkling to how their scheduling works out, by the time I sat down at a computer and prepared to write, I discovered that the playoff game had already happened, and Atlanta United had already lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And not only did they lose, they lost at home, and they lost on penalty kicks.\u00a0 And it wasn\u2019t even a 5-3 nail-biter of PKs, it went 3-1.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how many of my six readers actually know anything about soccer, but the penalty kick is basically the highest percentage shot in the game, since it\u2019s one-on-one, there are no defenders save for the goalkeeper, defending a trailer-sized goal, and there are no offside penalties that usually negate 99% of goals in regular conditions.\u00a0 A 3-1 score implies that three<\/em> Atlanta players fucked up their high-percentage shots, while Columbus needed only three goals to clinch the game.<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess we know what ATLUTD players will be working on, on their taxpayer-funded training fields<\/a> this offseason.<\/span><\/p>\n

No big deal, instead the post becomes about how ATLUTD simply falls in line and joins the ranks of Atlanta sports teams who do well enough to be playoff contenders, but simply falls short at delivering championships.\u00a0 Make no mistake, it doesn\u2019t downplay everything that the expansion team had accomplished, and the impressiveness of how much a city known for tepid sports fans actually embraced professional soccer.\u00a0 It\u2019s really nothing out of the ordinary for Atlanta sports, but I really did have a brief fleeting moment of optimism that maybe the expansion soccer club just might be the organization different enough and new enough to not get caught up in city-wide curses to be the ones who just might break it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But nope, same shit, different sport.\u00a0 Add Atlanta United to the family of sports teams, and I further wonder if I will ever in my lifetime see an Atlanta team actually win a championship.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing the tradition set by all of the other professional sports teams in the city of Atlanta: Atlanta United gets bounced from the MLS playoffs with a loss to Columbus Crew SC Prior to me writing this, I had thought about writing about how I really hoped that Atlanta United would have pulled the ultimate … Continue reading Same shit, different sport<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,164,143,52,58,110],"class_list":["post-45420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-futbol","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned","tag-sports","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45422,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45420\/revisions\/45422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}