An Honest Assessment of each MLS Supporter’s Group

Fan Culture in America is lacking..to say the least. I mean, we still chant “Defense, Defense” inside NBA arenas , “let’s go (whoever)” at NFL stadiums, and who even knows what gets chanted at MLB stadiums because frankly, it’s more of a social environment and nobody knows what’s going on during the actual game. As Americans, one of our very best chants involves going after referees with extremely vulgar and insulting language, and screaming loudly “ref, you suck”,

In the case of MLS, there has been an effort across the league to offer a different fan experience that you wouldn’t otherwise get at any other American sports event. While that is true, you can’t ignore how forced some of these supporter’s groups make things look.

3532 (LAFC)

Neverminded the fact that their chants are all stolen from Argentina, let’s Never forget when these guys all showed up to an El Trafico away game wearing camouflage, and when asked why, they said “we want to show that we are invading.” Cornballs, every single one of them.

Timbers Army (Portland Timbers)

They go to Timbers games by day, and dress up as Black Bloc by night. Even more embarrassing is the fact that after nearly 15 years in the league, they still have to watch their team play on a shoddy artificial turf, while chanting “Portland Timbers here we go, Portland Timbers here we go”. Cutting the lumber is a good tradition, I’ll give them that.

San Jose Ultras (SJ Earthquakes)

The gold star of supporters groups in MLS. These guys don’t display political messages, have no shame in letting profanities fly, and don’t try use the same “esta noche, tenemos que ganar” chant that every other group repeats. They also do not get paid travel to away games from clubs, like Chivas USA 2.0 over in LA does.

Emerald City Supporters (Seattle Sounders)

FIGHT AND WIN. After the video of the infamous microphone guy with the weird eyes and creepy facial expressions went viral, they became the butt of all jokes abroad, when bringing up American Soccer Culture. ECS still unironically uses this chant at games. I don’t know if that makes them shameless or embarrassing. Their CCL win is in spite of all this ;).

Austin Anthem (Austin FC)

Their only redeeming quality is that they trot out Matthew McConoughey from time to time. This is quickly overshadowed by their absolutely horrendous “LISTO VERDE” chant. Somehow Driussi still balls out!