3/27/09: Crew News

Lake Champions Way (Pic by Kyle Robertson/Dispatch)

**$5 Million Dollar Parking lot upgrade coming. Not in time for TFC though, also apparently there are only five portapottie's outside Crew stadium today and four are by the menancing CSU tailgate. DePoe is probably shivering in his boots.

I like to call it the portajohn movement. "How dare the Crew not accomodate us with portajohn's?" I don't know but we have had larger attendances before and after the TFC game. And, most people seem to get along okay somehow.

Also, don't they have a toilet on each of their 57,000 bus flotilla coming?

And, how about if TFC wants more portajohn's they make a contract with a Ohio portajohn company to bring more portajohn's to the parking lot. Like I said everyone survives unless they show up. I don't think Crew FO owes anything for people who want to tailgate on their land, well actually it's not even their land but the fairgrounds.

Nevertheless, we better get 50 portajohn's out there so the bladders of TFC don't have to actually wait in line for more then five minutes cause you know that would be a crime. :-)

**Game Reds Gearing Up For A Beatdown.

**Bob Hunter talks about the Crew's imaginary rivalry with TFC:
The Crew's imaginary rivalry with Toronto FC was in the news again. General manager Mark McCullers and Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman were stoking the embers, even though the rivalry bears little resemblance to ones in other sports.

Toronto fan groups are estimating that 1,200 to 1,500 fans will make the trip for the game, down from the 2,400 who came to Crew Stadium for the home opener last season.

That might be because Toronto FC has been lousy the previous two seasons, with an all-time road record of 5-21-5, including a win at the Kansas City Wizards last week. The Crew leads the series 3-0-3.

If you asked Crew players which games fired them up the most, it undoubtedly wouldn't be Toronto. Fans would probably choose D.C. or Chicago.

So, what makes this a rivalry? Apparently the fact they play for the Trillium Cup.

But, but they invented us Mr. Hunter.

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