Well, the Verde and Black somehow pulled out a win on Saturday night with the second best comeback of the season, and officially eliminated Sporting Kansas City from finishing above Austin FC. We have avoided ending up with the Anthony J. Precourt Memorial Wooden Spoon (yes, that’s its real name) for another season! I still…
Author: Travis McTravelFace
Travis McTravelface is the False Nine’s road correspondent. He pretty much lives on the road collecting way too many airline and hotel points supporting the Verde in todas partes.
Magic Number Watch-Edition 1
Welcome to the latest feature here on the False 9, Magic Number Watch! Since many of us here are also baseball fans, we wanted to apply a baseball concept to MLS, known as the magic number. Around this time of year, baseball fans start looking towards the magic number to know how many games their…
The Chickens are onto Kansas City, Kansas
Well, that was a match last week against the Red Bulls. Sadly, chickens can’t predict COVID cases, because they would have predicted a different result without Brad Stuver. Thankfully, we have seen Stuver in training this week, so we don’t need to make dual predictions. After our triumph in Frisco, I was supposed to take…
Post-Charlotte Thoughts from flying somewhere over Middle America
Good Afternoon, eastern conference leaders! Instead of my normal more focused article, I am going to let my mind drift this afternoon as I fly across our beautiful country from Charlotte to Denver before Denverde 3.0 on the 4th of July. It’s really too bad that we don’t play in the bonus conference since I…
So what happened to Ted Unkel in Montreal? We have 9 Theories
As your faithful travel correspondent, I was ready to write my normal review of Montreal and the Stade Saputo. It was a great away win, especially with 10 men for the Verde, even with our False 9 led performance in the stands, being among the weakest of the campaign. The poutine was good (even if…
Let’s make away matches more affordable for MLS Fans
We decided to do something we never done before and partnered with The Striker Texas to publish this piece. While all of you should be subscribers to the Striker (since they are good at doing their thing, just as we aim to be good at doing our thing), we did want to put this piece…
The Quest for a Decent 5% Beer in Utah
Instead of doing our traditional road match recap (since let’s face it, you don’t want to read a recap about us blowing a lead after Dani’s red card), we decided to take a different approach on our different trip to Utah. First off, we had my colleague Alistair Dennis write a piece that likely got…
Austin FC Proposed Trophies Part 1
Since we are still a pretty new club in the league, outside Copa Tejas, we haven’t had the opportunity to develop many rivalry trophies yet. However, we have some proposals for supporter created trophies, we’ll let the general supporters on both the Austin FC and the potential rival sides decide if these trophies are good…
Austin FC 3 @ DC United 2 (April 16th, 2022 Match)
Along with 300 of my closest Verde brethren (250+ supporters joined by dozens of friends and family), we set foot for a march on the Capitol to see if Austin FC could finally win a road match. By now, y’all know the heroic tale of our fearless leader Pollo, but my job is to tell…
New MLS Attendance Promotions Nights
At Austin FC, we are lucky to have sold out every match at McKalla so far. For many other teams across the league, the glass isn’t even half full. As a result, we wanted to offer some unsolicited advice on ways for some clubs across the league to increase their attendance. We’ll go in order…