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1975 Portland Timbers Playoff Torrent

The game is up for grabs, if you understand torrents please seed.

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More 1975 Portland Timbers Playoff Footage

Anti-Sounders banner flies over Qwest

ACES (Any Club Except Seattle), the supporters group which has a cup for the team which beats the Sounders the most times each season, pulled off a big Stunt at the Sounders' home opener against the Philadelphia Union. They had a plane fly over Qwest with the banner "ACES: GO UNION!"

Now that you know the back story, read this information from an anonymous source (who also provided the picture above):

Just before game time and as the broadcast was switching between ESPN studios there was a little activity in the booth as Harkes and Dellacamera were drawn to the window. Harkes said something like “that’s a long flight from Phili”, then one of the booth staff said that no, ACES is the name of the Portland fan group - Harkes laughed. In the second half the producer mentioned they should talk about the MLS supporter groups and rivalries and Harkes said something about ACES on the air in the second half.

After the game, the Sounders stats guy was talking to Harkes in the booth and mentioned that Sounders FC bought the website sounders.com from the ACES people because they owned it before and had their Anti-Seattle website there. Harkes said - 'I guess we know where they spent it'.

Obviously the Timbers Army would find it humorous to find out they had been replaced by ACES as the Timbers supporter group (as our source pointed out). Especially when much work has been done on the Soccer City boards to distance themselves from ACES.

Better Know a Timber, and where they are from.

The current Timber's roster includes players from 10 different states and 8 different nations. The US map below shows all the US based players broken down by state. States with one player hailing from them, is represented by green, two players are yellow and rose city red for California which three Timbers call their home state. We will post a global map in the near future. On a side note we love Alex Nimo and have Oregon and his place of birth Liberia listed as his home state/country. And on another note no Timber claims the state to the north.

Check out this money Google map pinpointing the hometowns of Timber players past and present. Map of the hometowns of former and current Portland Timbers by ruskerdu

MLS Week 2

Some great match ups again this week, and today is the Superclasico between Chivas USA and the LA Galaxy. The two teams share the Home Depot Center as their home turf and the battle between the two is always exciting.

Thursday April 1st
Houston Dynamo v Real Salt Lake - 6pm on ESPN2
LA Galaxy v Chivas USA - 8pm on ESPN2Saturday April 3rd
Colorado Rapids v Chicago Fire - 2pm on TeleFutura
DC United v New England Revolution - 4:30pm on Direct Kick
Seattle Sounders v New York Red Bulls - 7:30pm on FSC

Social Networking FTW - Twitter Edition

Social Networking For The Win - Twitter Edition

Timbers FC - The official twitter account of the Portland Timbers.

Ryan Bach - A VP with the Timbers front office and posts some great pictures.

Timbers Army - Keep up with the bar crawls, tailgating, charitable events and what else the supporters are up to.

The 107ist - The independent supporters trust, join or die.

Ian Joy - The new defensive hard man for the Timbers, updates his twitter like its going out of style, a must follow for any fan.

Mao's Football - Local football blogger, and has taken over the Timbers Offside blog.

Axe to the Road - It hasn't been updated in a while, but wait til the season comes for some solid updates.

Strong At Night - John Strong, the voice of the Timbers has a radio show that does great Timbers coverage.

Timber Joey - The man, the myth, the legend, Timber Jim and the legacy lives on.

Dropping Timber - Self promotion.

LEVSQUEisDouche - Enough said.

What twitter accounts did we leave off? Post your favorites in the comments below, and we will add them the next time around.