As many of you are aware, The False Nine periodically has mailbags where we solicit questions via our Twitter fan base and answer them. This particular question deserves more than just a response as part of an article, it deserves an entire article due to not only its genius, but also that it resulted in…
There was a giveaway during Austin FC’s bi yearly chaos filled matches with San Jose, who this author assumes are contractually obligated to ever play a normal or mundane match. For a quick refresher on how that rubric is set up: the giveaway is graded 1-100 with 5 points possible for the Look, Usability, and…
A perfect team working together all trying to achieve the same goal. It’s exactly what everyone wants to be a part of, but really, we want to be part of a perfect team that’s doing something very specific: We want to pull off a heist To have a successful crew you need a few basic…
For many of us who have followed the team since before it had a stadium, a logo, or even a name, it’s been magical having a soccer team in Austin to support. This author bought one of the first run of Austin FC t-shirts thinking that there was still a decent chance the team wouldn’t…
There was a giveaway during Austin FC’s yearly destruction of the Houston Dynamo at Q2, for a quick refresher on how that rubric is set up: the giveaway is graded 1-100 with 5 points possible for the Look, Usability, and Originality categories. An additional 85 points are available for the Throwability category. Final Rankings: 1-24…
It is once again time to open up the mailbag, this time post a huge road win for Austin FC which propelled them into third in the West (with a game in hand over the Salt Lake Royals) and heading into a big showdown with playoff and Copa Tejas implications against FC Dallas next weekend….
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As many of you are aware, we at The False Nine have been using seemingly gifted “Sighted” chickens to predict Austin FC matches. Unfortunately after this past weekend, the chickens’ ability to choose matches correctly was in question, as they’d dropped below .500 on the season (7-8 total) In a completely unrelated happenstance to one…
This past weekend there was a giveaway at the Austin FC vs. Orlando City SC match, so you know we had to grab one and do the ranking. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Past rankings can be found here. It’s a very simple system for very simple items, everything is graded 1-100 with 5…
It’s been a rough few days. The chickens have been misbehaving. Had I known how difficult it would be I would have said no (or killed them for smoking purposes right after Louis left). Friday morning I got out of bed and immediately heard a crunch sound, an egg had been laid next to my…