Die-hard Ultras / Hardcore Supporters

John Brown30 said:🙄 I'd just love to see you get caught up in the chaos at the stadium on your way out 🙂

He’s just over here spouting nonsense whenever he feels like it, and then he has the nerve to mention the game? Honestly, this is just typical for a guy like 🙂
him.

Forget both the game and the national team... if a guy is from a decent place, why is it weird that he uses that slang? It’s just how people talk around here, like saying "y'all" or something... I don't see the big deal. The only issue is when news anchors on TV start using it, but honestly... just chill out a bit

Frank Kim26 said:Honestly, I don't know why everyone is getting so worked up about the game or the national team. If someone is generally considered a decent person, it seems odd to judge them just for using a certain slang term. It’s used similarly to how we might use some old-school colloquialism back home—it’s just part of the vernacular. I don't see much of an issue here. The real problem arises when you hear journalists tossing those terms around on TV or in the mainstream media, but amongst ourselves? I don't see the big deal. Maybe everyone should just relax a little.

You basically just took the words right out of my mouth.🙂

I’m from up north, so I tend to avoid using the word "match" because it sounds a bit too much like something you'd hear in some weird dialect...

Frank Kim26 said:take a guy like Ponistra... and what's the actual issue? The real trouble is how TV news outlets and all those other media giants just run with him

I don't see the problem myself.

Alex Campbell54 said:Since I grew up further north, I tend to avoid using the word "match" because it feels a bit too much like slang from across the border...

Well, honestly, I was under the impression that it was strictly regional slang—like how people up north might say "take a look" while we down here would more likely say "grab it."😁

Frank Kim26 said:Honestly, who cares about the game or the national team? If someone is a genuinely good person, why is everyone getting hung up on their choice of words? People use slang all the time—it’s just like how we might use certain colorful terms back home, so what’s the big deal? The real issue isn't the word itself, it's just that you see journalists using it on TV and in the news, which makes it feel more official, but I don't see any actual harm in it. Everyone should just take a breath and relax a little bit.

First off, when a guy writes "the game," how am I supposed to know exactly where he's from? And you 🤷

but honestly, that specific term is so repulsive to me that I can barely even bring myself to read it here. It feels like if they actually banned the national team and football matches entirely, I could live in Los Angeles for 200 years without ever having to hear that word spoken.
It doesn't really have anything to do with the specific topic at hand, but I just absolutely loathe that expression. 🙂

Jose Kern11 said::

Honestly, that slang is so repulsive I can't even bring myself to read it here. It’s exhausting. Maybe they should just ban the whole local dialect and the football team altogether—then maybe we could actually live in a city like Chicago for two hundred years without having to hear it spoken.
This probably has nothing to do with the main topic, I suppose... but there is just far too much hostility in this language. It's quite excessive, really. 🙂

The national team and the match itself... they've become synonymous with everything that has gone wrong with American soccer over the last fifteen years or so. It’s just unfortunate, I suppose. Truly unfortunate.

Harold Kim5 said:Honestly, saying "national team" or "big match" has basically become shorthand for everything that’s gone wrong with American soccer over the last 15 years or so... it’s just sad...

I mean, you could even go as far as to say the national team and these big games are the root cause of the whole crisis in American soccer.

Alex Campbell54 said:I'm from "up north" so I stay away from using the word game because apparently it comes from Canadian...

The term game is just local New York City slang and has zero connection to Canada.

That's just what the Rangers fans were posting on their own board since they started using the word too. They're just trying to comfort themselves that it isn't some extremist slur, just Canadian... 🤣

Anyway, it's pretty stupid to run away from certain New York City slang terms that have basically become standard English. Down here in NYC, we all use your expression "fiesta" all the time and nobody gets worked up about it... 😉

With the internet, the media explosion, and globalization, we're gonna end up picking up more of your slang, and you'll pick up ours. For example, the word "ridiculous" pops up more in NYC now, or saying something is "against" something else... stuff like that...

Ridiculous. 😍

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Harold Kim5 said:The national team and big matches have basically become shorthand for everything that's gone wrong with American soccer over the last fifteen years or so... it's a shame, really...

Give me a break. 🤦
And what, are we supposed to just wait around for the game against Miami? ☕ If the national team had to play a match against Mexicans in Miami, would you actually show up then? ☕

Edit: At first, I was genuinely taken aback seeing a comment like this, but then I remembered we already had one of our heated debates about Hajduk's exit from the league, back when you were arguing that "national team" and "match day" were just symbols for all the garbage infecting our soccer scene. 🤦

Jesse Campbell said:"Tekma" is just NYC slang. What's that got to do with anything?

The Rangers fans started using that term on their own forum. Now they're all patting themselves on the back, claiming it’s some Slavic thing instead of being political... what a joke. 🤣

It’s honestly stupid to run away from certain New York City slang terms that have basically become part of the standard language anyway. Down here in Miami, we all use your term "party" and nobody ever gets worked up about it... 😉

With the internet blowing up and everything going global, we're gonna end up using more of your slang, and you'll be picking up ours too. Isn't that just how it works? Like, you hear people saying "ridiculous" all the time in New York City now too.Even using the word "against"... whatever.

What a bunch of clowns. 😍

There's gonna be plenty of you lot, so you're gonna need that word. 😍

Jesse Campbell said:That term is just local New York City slang; it’s got nothing to do with anything Canadian.

The Rangers were posting that on their own boards because they’ve started picking up the lingo too. I guess they’re just trying to convince themselves it isn't some shady political slur, but just Canadian instead... 🤣

Honestly, it’s kind of stupid to run away from certain NYC slang terms that have basically become part of the standard American vocabulary. Down here in New York, we all use words like "bash" all the time and nobody gets worked up about it... 😉

With the internet, the media explosion, and everything being so globalized now, we’re probably gonna end up using more of your slang, and you guys will pick up ours. For example, people in New York are saying "ridiculous" way more often lately, or using "contra" to mean against something... stuff like that...

Whatever, man. Just ridiculous. 😍

You’ve got a point.
For the last year or so, I’ve been paying closer attention and I've noticed you guys have actually started saying things like "gonna go" or "let's go."

Jacob Palmer77 said:You're right.
I've been living a nightmare for almost a year now, and I've noticed you guys have started using slang like "gonna" and "wanna" everywhere.

Plus "yeah," and "good lord."😍

cosmictinker46 said:I suppose you could even argue that the national team and the match itself are to blame for the crisis in America.

You don't grasp the nuance, so you just resort to relativism... It’s typical behavior for someone who hasn't quite matured in a debate. I guess certain terms have become symbols for a sort of centralized negativity within American soccer for a specific segment of people. No one is actually objecting to those terms being used as slang by the folks who have always used them, but when the media starts forcing them, or they get pushed through newspaper comments and online articles... it just creates more friction. It breeds resistance. I won't bother explaining further since it seems you aren't able to follow, and besides, we're just cluttering the thread now...

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I honestly think terms like "the game" and "the national team" were actually invented by folks down in Miami. Both are just shortcuts used so people can talk less and spend more time relaxing...😍