re: 2019 was a dud. Let's look towards 2020

quote:

---

I just want to know how I'm being a sanctimonious douchebag.

---

You're not, but most ATLUTD fans are. I'll never understand why most United fans have to have an "us versus everyone, including our other teams in town," mentality.

I want the team to do well, but if we're being perfectly honest - A Super Bowl, NBA title, or World Series would mean 10x more to the city. I believe there is still some hostility from soccer fans here that it isn't among the "big boys," from a respect perspective. Honestly, the organization has done everything it can. it just particpates in a league which has massive salary restrictions, laughable attendance outside 3-4 teams, and talent that is way below the top 5 leagues in the world.

Maybe we are spoiled as Americans, but when we go to an NBA, NFL, NHL, or MLB game - we get the best. We know when our team wins, we truly are "world champions." When we won MLS cup, it didn't even mean we were uneqiuvocably the best team on our contenent.

Again - we are all pro ATLUTD. But it doesn't get, or deserve the attention and dollars of our other 3 teams because as a business, it isn't even worth a 3rd of any of them. It's why when we're having a conversation about our struggling major sports franchise, we get frustrated when SJW United fans barge through wall like the Kool-Aid guy, bragging about a trophy that isn't as old as any kindergardner, that yielded a season without even a conference title, in a league that isn't even the best on the continent.

I have no doubt that there are some die-hard, love it with all your might, Georgia Southern Football fans out there. But they know where they stand as a program, and what league they play in. They know they're a distant second to Georgia and GT, and TQBH, probably Alabama, Ole Miss, and Auburn in the state as well. You don't see them charging around like they own the place because they won Division II titles out the wazoo. If they did that, they'd be acting like ATLUTD fans.