Portland Timbers play against 8 year old with cancer and his team at their stadium

[MuppetMaestro]

http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_23149689/portland-timbers-play-against-8-year-olds-team


Thought it was a cool story, must have been a nice feeling for a group of eight year olds to play in front of 3000 people singing and setting off smoke bombs etc. I'm always surprised of how well the game is doing across the Atlantic, especially in the north west.

 

[brakespear]

Nice story to read,must have been great for all the kids and hopefully for Atticus. Thanks for posting

 

[John Bumlick]

disappointed to read that the kids won 10-9. was imagining a scene akin to the 'competitive dad' sketches on the Fast Show...

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Great story!

 

[tedlit]

They're my "local" team. They sell-out virtually every home game, do all sorts of stuff in the community (as evidenced by that story!), and moved into a new stadium a couple of years ago after playing on-and-off all over town. Unfortunately, their new stadium is a converted baseball field, so about half the seats don't directly face the pitch.

 

[MuppetMaestro]

They're my "local" team. They sell-out virtually every home game, do all sorts of stuff in the community (as evidenced by that story!), and moved into a new stadium a couple of years ago after playing on-and-off all over town. Unfortunately, their new stadium is a converted baseball field, so about half the seats don't directly face the pitch.

The reason I found this is pretty much because I really like what is happening in the North West, with the Cascadia rivalry between the west coast clubs. Although I have to say I have a soft spot for Seattle Sounders as they average over 30,000 a game and when the derbies come around they can fill up the stadium to capacity. What's the reason for the popularity in the area? I mean there are NFL, and MLB teams around as well.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Great story.

 

[Stat Brother]

disappointed to read that the kids won 10-9. was imagining a scene akin to the 'competitive dad' sketches on the Fast Show...

Welcome to mine, and now Jnr Stat's, childhood.