Friday, May 13, 2011

Hipster Heaven

Hilarious read in The Wall Street Journal about the upcoming "match" on the "pitch" between the Seattle Sounders and the Portland Timbers.  This article isn't as much about the X's and O's of professional soccer, but rather an observation and assessment of the hipster/hippie scene within these crunchy cities and their smelly fanbases.
Some of the classic lines from the article...
  • "You can't really say our beer's better than their beer. I mean, Mac & Jack's is way better than say, Deschutes, but still," said 23-year-old Sounders fan Josh Nelson during a home game on a drizzly afternoon last month
  • In Portland, stadium vendors hawk barbecued-tofu sandwiches, spinach salads and chocolate-covered bacon, putting Seattle's relatively mundane offerings, like veggie dogs, gourmet donuts and cappuccinos, to shame.
  • The team plants a tree, for example, for every goal scored.
  • "The Timbers are all about helping out their fellow man," said Kaegan Dews, a 22-year-old dishwasher
  • "They're hippies," said Seattle fan Nic Greer, a 32-year-old garbage man with a lip ring who wears a chicken mask on his head to every game
  • Agen said Timbers fans "are not the brightest bunch," thanks, he said, to their being "meth-headed" and "jobless."

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