FC Dallas and The Rainbow Connection

Should you tire of my style of in-depth soccer analysis, may I recommend, officially now, Prost Amerika’s Sounders FC blog. Start here for their FC Dallas Match Preview where you can learn that FC Dallas is known as “Hoops” to the fans and media. Then when you wonder what the Kermit reference is in the article subtitle, flip back over here for the connection.

It refers to no less than one of the best names I have encountered since I was enthralled with all fourteen letters of “Saltalamacchia” squeezed across the shoulders of an MLB jersey. That would be one of this weekend’s referees, Kermit Quisenberry.

Why aren’t more mothers naming their boys Kermit these days? Look what futures they might have: professional soccer referee or singing partner to Debbie Harry:



There’s more, thankfully, on this weekend’s match at MLS.net and really anywhere else but here. Finally for you gay men who visited with the search-word promise of “Rainbow Connection,” well, this won’t let you down, will it?