Rowdies' Mob Creates Unifying Force in Tampa Bay (uslsoccer.com)

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Rowdies' Mob Creates Unifying Force in Tampa Bay (uslsoccer.com)

Way to represent Mike!!! Thankyou as always for helping to lead the cause!

great little write up! Though....missed an opportunity for an "except Orlando" in the end there. :D

fuckorlando. Hmmm, I guess hashtags don’t show up.

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Rowdies' Mob Creates Unifying Force in Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay's supporters group has helped make Al Lang Stadium one of the league's toughest trips

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Teams often talk about turning their home venue into a fortress, and in the USL – like so many leagues around the world – ensuring maximum points are gained each time a side steps onto its field is a cornerstone for long-term success.

So while a lot has been made of the Tampa Bay Rowdies recent road form, the fact that the club has lost just once at Al Lang Stadium in the USL regular season since their arrival in the league prior to last season has shown the club to live up to its words.

The Rowdies are undefeated going into Saturday's game at Al Lang Stadium against ATL UTD 2, and their home fans have been a significant part of that form. Named in honor of the club's original mascot, Ralph Rowdie, Ralph’s Mob is the rowdiest of Rowdies fans, and thanks to the club’s history which dates back to the 1970s when it was the first professional team in the Tampa Bay area the fanbase knows what's expected on the field and in the stands.

“I think it’s a really engaged crowd overall – they’re pretty soccer savvy.  They know the right moments to help give the team a pick-me-up and when to be outraged and be heard,” said Ralph’s Mob member Mike Pendleton. “Ralph’s Mob is perched right under the overhang on the goal end which amplifies all of the sound coming around the corner. Plus we’ve got one of the best drummers you’ll find anywhere.”

Even the might of Real Monarchs SLC, a side that has claimed four road victories already this season in taking the lead in the race for the USL Regular Season Championship, couldn’t get a result at Al Lang Stadium. The Rowdies are 14-1-5 in the USL regular season since the start of the 2017 season, making Al Lang Stadium one of the toughest road venues to visit in the league.

“The crowd is definitely a huge factor. Our guys love coming come to play in front of supporters they know they can count on,” said Pendleton. “The pitch is generally immaculate, which I think helps the style we tend to play. Plus it’s hot and humid. Going 90 minutes in Florida conditions is something you have to be mentally and physically prepared for. We live in it and train in it every day, so we’ll always have an advantage.”

That heat isn’t just tough on the players. It’s also tough on the fans, especially in the Mob's section where they’re jumping, moving, chanting, and drumming. There’s no real way to keep cool aside from the plentiful options for hydration from the vendors dotted around the venue, but having the group placed under the roof has helped according to Pendleton.

That roof is one of the notable features at Al Lang Stadium, which provides one of the most unique backdrops in North American sports. The stunning view of the Tampa Bay waterfront has been a feature since the venue was originally opened in 1947 to host Spring Training games for Major League Baseball teams that included the New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets. That link between the old and new is still relevant for those going to Rowdies games nowadays.

"It is purely our home. After the remodel of the stadium in 2015, improvements were made to the facility to make it soccer only and feel like it is through and through Rowdies,” said Pendleton. “It’s got a great vista of the bay – one of the best views you’ll find anywhere in domestic soccer. Another factor is the history of the stadium and the site itself. For over 100 years there has been an active stadium there for professional sports in St. Petersburg.  We have a unique claim to say that we’ve had legends like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial, Didier Drogba, Raul, and Joe Cole all ply their trade on that same ground.”

For many in Ralph’s Mob the group has proved to be a second family, and in an area like Tampa Bay which has so many people moving in from different states and even different countries that has been vital in getting people settled into the area.

“Like many people who live in Florida, I was a transplant from somewhere else with roots to professional sports team from a home somewhere else,” said Pendleton. “The Rowdies helped make this area really feel like a home for me. It’s like a family you come to see every Saturday night. We’ve got lots of fans who followed the original Rowdies for 20 years and still come out for this run of nearly 10 years in the modern era. It’s a special experience in the Tampa Bay area.”

With a perfect stadium location, right in downtown St. Petersburg, there is plenty to do around the stadium, and with a welcoming supporters group away fans should find plenty to do and that’s what Pendleton urges visitors to do.

“One perhaps is to leave time to explore Downtown St. Pete.  There’s a lot to do here – great places to eat and drink all the way up and down Central Avenue or right around the stadium.  It’s the advice I always give. There’s also really no bad place to sit. We love our team, but I think we’re generally welcoming to fans of all teams.”

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The USL Q&A – Rob Stone, Tampa Bay Rowdies Fan

FOX Sports host talks Rowdies fanhood, soccer’s domestic growth, love of Al Lang Stadium

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Rowdies welcomed lifelong fan Rob Stone to be the guest emcee at Monday night’s official season kickoff party at the Mahaffey Theater in downtown St. Petersburg as the Fox Sports host told stories about his history with the club and hosted a Q&A with Rowdies Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Governor Bill Edwards and players Joe Cole, Marcel Schafer and Georgi Hristov.

Stone, who will host Fox’s 2018 FIFA World Cup coverage this summer, also talked with USLSoccer.com about his history with the sport, which saw him compete collegiately at Colgate University, and the massive strides soccer has made since he first became a Rowdies fan as a youngster.

GROWING UP ROWDIES

Q: What does it mean to be part of this, the launch of a new season for a club that you have so much history with?

Rob Stone: Yeah, I think it just goes to show the growth of this game that there are now events that happen like this in American soccer, and that you get a turnout and a huge pop for this, it shows the continued growth at a really staggering rate. The beauty about the Rowdies is it’s one of those few iconic names and brands that has shown the legs to survive from the 70s, 80s, 90s to where we are now. It’s arguably the most iconic name and brand in American soccer, and it’s the oldest team that’s still around now, which is surreal that we’re talking in those kinds of terms.

Q: You grew up with the Rowdies, what was it like growing up as a soccer fan in that era when you had such incredible names playing for the club?

RS: When I grew up as a fan of soccer, it was a chase. It was a chase to find the game. It wasn’t everywhere on television, it was Soccer Made in Germany on PBS, it was a random NASL game maybe on ABC Sports, and you prayed to God your team was there so you could actually see them. I lived in North Carolina and Connecticut as a fan of the Rowdies, and I would chase them down and badger my parents to take me to New England Tea Men games, take me to New York Cosmos games when the Rowdies were in town.

I was that idiot kid in the green and yellow hooped socks, the full kit – yes, I was a full-kit w----r as a kid – because that was my team and I didn’t care. I didn’t care going into the den of Giants Stadium in the swamp of New Jersey all kitted out as a kid because that was my team and that’s what I cared about. I took a lot of heat from Cosmos fans, but it was a good lesson for me to stick up for what you believe in, and I’ve always believed in the Rowdies. It’s my first love in sports, so I’m going to stay with them.

Q: We’ve seen the hooped socks on broadcasts as well, is it fun to be able to transmit that to the national audience?

RS: It is fun, because sometimes we’re asked to do things and other times we want to do it and it’s purely organic, and whenever the Rowdies come up, no-one’s asking me to talk about them, I’m doing it of my own free will and I think you can hear the change in my volume and my energy level and my passion.

Q: What’s your favorite thing about Al Lang Stadium?

RS: The uniqueness of it. The view. I just love that opening, that odd opening in the stadium that really makes no sense, but I love how the Rowdies have embraced it. It makes it different, it sets it apart where you’ve got this gorgeous view of what Florida should be. If you close your eyes and you say Florida, you’re seeing palm trees, you’re seeing water, you’re seeing boats, you’re seeing flip flops and you’re seeing leisure, and you see all of that through the channel, and yet all you need to do is tilt your head down to another degree and you see top-level soccer, an amazing fanbase, and a history that really right now is second-to-none in American soccer.

SOCCER'S GROWTH IN THE UNITED STATES

Q: The thing I find most interesting right now is soccer is becoming a much greater part of community pride, and it’s not just at the Major League Soccer Level, it’s across the country. You with the Rowdies, Alexi [Lalas] with Detroit, everyone is proud to represent Cincinnati, Sacramento, Louisville, Nashville, wherever it is, it’s being embraced as a civic entity now.

RS: Yeah, you’re seeing that everywhere, and there’s no way you could have forecast that phenomenon maybe even 10 years ago. I remember going to Asheville, North Carolina to go watch a World Cup 2014 game, and it’s Asheville, North Carolina, it’s out in the mountains, it’s the Blue Ridge Parkway, it’s not where you thought soccer would be, and guess what? Soccer was staring me right in the face and it was a sold-out bar. I had to call ahead to reserve a table for me and my friends, and it’s everywhere now. The gospel has been spread.

It’s almost like the California Missions, spreading the gospel up the coast of California, well guess what, this is the Soccer Missions, and it’s infiltrated everywhere. I take great joy in seeing these “smaller, minor-league cities” saying we’re now worthy of a team. We have a population that wants it, we have a fan-base that deserves it, we have ownership that wants to do it, and we have enough talent that the American population can handle it. It’s just spreading and spreading, and what the USL is doing and now what I’m seeing with USL D-3 absolutely warms my heart.

I remember when I graduated college I did a road trip with my best friend, and we wanted to hit ballparks. We weren’t diehard baseball fans, but it just felt like the thing to do, and we were like “yeah, we want to hit a couple of major league parks, but we also want to hit some of the minor league parks too, really get the nuances of the Durham Bulls or the San Antonio Mission, whatever these smaller teams were. Now, you can do it with soccer, and I wish I was graduating college now so I could do a summer road trip to all of these wonderful growing soccer communities that will take you in as one of their own just by pulling into the parking lot.

Q: You see the places where it’s springing up now, Birmingham, Memphis, you’ve got all of these Southeastern cities where the game has come alive following the tradition of the Rowdies. I don’t think anyone quite expected what Atlanta’s done, but there seems to have been this groundswell in the Southeast that the Rowdies are part of?

RS: For a long time the Southeast was confusing the experts. Boy, we’ve got to have a market here but nothing seems to stick, and there’s no way it’ll work here or there or Point A or Point B, and I for one didn’t think Atlanta was a fully-wise decision soccer-wise. I got it for the ownership and the stadium concept where we can get two teams there, but I grew up opposed to playing on artificial surface and in a football stadium, that just rubbed me the wrong way, but Atlanta has single-handedly changed that dynamic in one year.

That is the South, my friend, that’s Waffle House, Cracker Barrell, that is not where you expect soccer to be growing up, and it’s there, and it’s alive and well, and I think it sends a strong message to potential ownership groups, to potential sponsors, to the population itself not just here in North America but overseas as well that, holy cow, there’s more than just New York and L.A. for soccer. We can go to Atlanta, we can go to Tampa, we can go to Nashville, we can go to Portland, we can go from coast to coast, and including Canada, and you’re going to see a passionate fanbase, ownership and crowd that you’re going to want to be part of.

LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD

Q: Your playing career…

RS: … was awesome. It’s going to go down in the record books as one of the greatest Americans to ever play in the Patriot League!

Q: … what did you enjoy most about playing?

RS: I enjoyed the competition and the camaraderie. I love competing, and I loved fighting for a goal particularly with a team. It’s that team concept that I really miss. We replicate it to an extent in your workplace and I think we have a great team at Fox Sports, whether it’s my soccer team, or college football, or college basketball, but to be on stage tonight and see that team introduced one by one, and see the bond they have and the subtle looks they can give each other, and you know it means something, and the battles they’ve been through, the ups and the downs, that’s what I miss, and that’s what really drew me to the game, just this sense of “we’re all in this together, let’s fight for a good cause doing something that we absolutely love.”

Q: Your first World Cup was as a sideline reporter, now you’ve gradually moved up the food chain, what’s it going to be like sitting in the big chair this summer?

RS: This summer, I’ve been preparing for it mentally and physically for a long, long time and to be handed the keys to this World Cup castle is daunting, I don’t take it lightly, I think of the names that have had it, but I also think of the growth that those people have been part of, and to where it is now. This World Cup presentation will be nothing compared to what you would have seen eight years ago, and to a point four years ago. ESPN was a master steward for the sport, and what they did for the World Cup, elevating it to a massive level of importance, and when we covered it in ’98 there was this fear among the remotes that once the U.S. is out all the remotes were going to say, “no, thank you”, and turn off, and every four years that sentiment kinda got eroded, and they said, “wait a second, people understand these other teams, they can talk about Germany, they’re intrigued by what’s going on in South America, oh my goodness, look at the Asian explosion.”

Now we have for the first time in decades no U.S. National Team, and for the first time in decades this country can handle it because this country knows what’s at stake, they understand the game, they understand what it means, and they understand what an event it is. No longer do we have to “educate the viewership”, they know what they’re getting themselves into, and now we just have to present it properly. We are going to overdeliver this summer, that’s my one guarantee.

Q: Speaking of overdelivering, some good promises made out there by [Bill Edwards on a championship season]. Marcel [Schafer] wouldn’t go quite as far, but this team looks like it has the makings of a serious championship contender. You’ll be remote in Russia, remote in L.A., is it going to be fun watching this team, this season?

RS: I’m pulled in so many directions in my life, but if there was a pie graph of my life there’s a chunk there that’s Green and Gold and keeps an eye on what’s going on. I’ve got people who remind me, I’ve got a lot of good friends who still live in the Tampa Bay area who send me texts, who’ll send me pictures, send me videos in the moment, who’ll Facetime me from games, so even if I’m back in California or in Red Square this summer I will be keeping track on how the Green and Gold are doing this season.

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Honored to be chosen as keynote speaker at tonight’s Swope, Rodante Vanguard Awards banquet. Congratulations to all students/athletes/coaches on your success! Shout out to MVP Travis representing @tbusoccer proudly 👏🏽

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Final prep for @atlutd2 tomorrow night 💪

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The @TampaBayRowdies are getting in one final practice this morning before their home match against Atlanta United 2 tomorrow night.

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When fans at Providence Park yell goal, it's thrilling.

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https://communityimpact.com/austin/northwest-austin/city-county/2018/06/01/details-emerge-in-potential-mls-to-austin-move-what-you-need-to-know-from-city-staffs-report-psvs-proposal/

Details emerge in potential MLS to Austin move: What you need to know from city staff’s report, PSV’s proposal

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http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/two-important-reports-released-detailing-major-league-soccer-stadium-near-domain

Two important reports released detailing Major League Soccer stadium near Domain

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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/former-scotland-defender-neill-collins-12635802

Former Scotland defender Neill Collins on friendship with Joe Cole and starting a managerial career in USA

Collins has been playing in the States and was given the opportunity to manage Tampa Bay Rowdies.

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http://www.golocalworcester.com/sports/revolution-coach-friedel-to-be-inducted-into-national-soccer-hall-of-fame

Revolution Coach Friedel to be Inducted Into National Soccer Hall of Fame

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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/2018/06/01/editorial-mls-decision-no-brainer-covington-diocese-overreacted-graduation-speech/659073002/

Editorial: MLS decision was a no-brainer; Covington Diocese overreacted to graduation speech

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/soccer/don-garber-finally-getting-soccer-hall-of-fame-induction/ar-AAy5mES

Don Garber finally getting Soccer Hall of Fame induction