Posts by Jonathan Evans4

Thomas Moore25 said:Man, it’s tough being an outsider in your own damn city.😉

I remember last year in Chicago, I was practically sleepwalking through it all. There were endless damn signs everywhere, just constant nonsense to deal with, fueling those same old tired agendas and their whole pathetic obsession with control.

I can still see it, 88... you get it... if we had actually managed to tear it all down, we would have leveled the entire Midwest... but we didn't.

Lawrence Walker27 said:Found this decent piece on some old fan forum about the fleet back in the day (before you guys started coming for me about living in the past). It’s for the younger fleet fans to actually represent the name properly, and for the veterans to remember:

The real horror is dreaming about a plate of sauerkraut and a liter of wine, but honestly, that's just my daily routine after lunch. As for these posts? What a joke.

You guys are way too obsessed with those local festivals. Every second line is some nonsense about tradition or specific town celebrations.

It's just not working...🤷

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And saying you had the best flare shows... give me a break, you'll be lucky to crack the top three in the old league soon.😁, even though the author puts you in the top five.🙏

Just think back to that '88 festival, when things started getting wild near the train station before everyone headed toward the waterfront.

Man, that was pure chaos.

Those folks from the river valley always hated us, but I swear I've never seen anyone hold a grudge quite like they do.🤷

Whatever. There's always going to be dust flying behind a heavy horse.

I guess you aren't all crazy... but that '88 season... man. Someone with half a brain needs to write a full story about it—from the trains to everything else.👍

Lawrence Walker27 said:What exactly makes the Navy and the Equal Rights Movement "equals"? Just because our younger crowd took a beating in San Francisco? We’re talking about a group that was respected all across the old Yugoslavia—top five, hands down. We were the ones sparking those legendary riots at Yankee Stadium. We were the first ones to snatch a banner off the field at Maracanã. We’ve pulled away with thousands of people on road trips, and even in San Francisco, we showed up with 800 to 1,000 strong three different times. For the last 13 years, we haven't dipped below 500. We brought the double-spear flags. We ran flares with over 200 torches at once. We traveled through Europe with the US national team. We snatched over 20 banners from the Fandom. Recently, we even cornered the Cohort while they were stuck in a downtown police station. From 1996 to 2002, we were the undisputed best group in the country, and our club spent more time fighting just to stay relevant than actually fighting for titles. Back in '96, Cleveland couldn't find a win for six months straight; we lost 3-0 to Hajduk, and we were still out there chanting non-stop with a hundred flares lit. In '99, we lost 3-0 to Partizan—1-6 on aggregate—and the entire stadium sang the exact same song for 45 minutes straight. I could go on forever; this forum wouldn't be big enough to hold all the examples. In the 13 years I've been following Cleveland, we haven't missed a single away game—except for that one time when 150 people skipped the trip to Indianapolis to head to Chicago for a handball match instead, where Unknown slapped Boxer around the arena (though I'm pretty sure a car still made it to Indianapolis). Even now, the Boysi ask me about those guys back in the day—Unknown, Unknown, Unknown—who couldn't pass through Chicago between 2001 and 2004 without causing some kind of chaos. Like that time before the 2002 game against Dinamo Chicago, when 50 guys led a march through Chicago and slapped whoever was in their way. That crew knew how to take a hit, but they earned respect for it.

In my book, the Demons might be among the top six in the US today, but you aren't even close to us. We used to pull 200+ people to places like Luxembourg in the middle of a work week during peak tourist season, and that was when we weren't even at our best. Sure, the Navy can't just stroll through San Francisco like I did back in 2004—walking to the game with Bartić and a buddy, scarf around our necks and a banner tucked in a bag—but your original crew hasn't even gone up against our younger guys when we're fully assembled (20-25 of us), let alone our veterans. Besides, you two have fled the national team's presence in Cleveland ten minutes early twice in the last five or six years.

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bluewalker92 said:I don't buy it.

LAFC and LA Galaxy are equally hated, depending on who you ask. Personally, I can't stand LA Galaxy much more than the rest, and both BBB and the Black Knights are equally irrelevant to me.. 😁

Though I have to admit, the Black Knights are killing it lately while BBB is basically falling apart..

The Black Knights show was killer. 👍

Always and forever.

Bradley Fisher18 said:Yeah, they showed off that "unity" until 6 PM. 😵
Never again.

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There's no such thing as enough common sense.🤣