Atlanta is an alphabet soup kind of town. We are home to NFL*, MLB**, MiLB,*** NBA****, WNBA***** and MLL******teams, not to mention PGA******* and LPGA******** events. Twice we have been home to NHL********* teams as well, but the Flames left us to go to Calgary and the Thrashers moved to Winnipeg and changed their name to the Jets. Not enough ice here, I suppose.
*National Football League
**Major League Baseball
***Minor League Baseball
****National Basketball Association
*****Women's National Basketball Association
******Major League Lacrosse
*******Professional Golfers Association
********Ladies Professional Golf Association
*********National Hockey League
But now, in addition to all of those, we will become in 2017 a MLS********* town as well.
**********Major League Soccer
Yes, it's true! The team is called Atlanta United -- do I hear echoes of Manchester? -- and here is its emblem:
I left the
pièce de résistance until last --
a three minute and 22 seconds fly-through of the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium, currently under construction, which the Atlanta United Football Club (soccer) will share with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League.
Soccer is great fun to play and to watch. Congratulations for your sports town.
ReplyDeleteWow! That stadium is going to be fantastic for the sports loving people of Atlanta but not for those who live in one-horse satellite towns like Canton. I hope that Atlanta United really take off as a proper football team. (N.B. In Great Britain we rarely use the term "soccer")
ReplyDeleteAnd all of them bore to to sobs (and I couldn't tell you the difference). Yes, I know, I am considered unnatural here too.
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