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What exactly does this photo have to do with Seattle Sounders FC? Well, nothing, of course. But Google Analytics says that traffic is pretty light on Thursdays and that the posts with pictures of semi-naked chicks get a lot of hits.
So, let's find a connection here... imagine this team of soccer ladies is going to play an exhibition match against Sounders FC rain or shine (hopefully rain) some Sunday afternoon in July. All proceeds will go to Nothing But Nets and their campaign against malaria. Freddie Ljungberg will hook up with the chick front-row second from the left, but she’ll turn out to be allergic to dogs so it doesn’t work out. Brad Evans will be stalked by a Cosmo Girl who fell in love with his “Playa Profile,” but he won’t settle for less than back row, far right. Lastly, “Mandy” will be there and will finally win Evan Brown’s heart despite aggressive advances by middle row third from right.
Sugar-voiced teenage Mandy, an American in Argentina, had a couple of hours to kill before going to watch the Sounders preseason practice way back when. So she casually whips up a song about her crush: Evan Brown. It ends up, as so much evidence of our good and bad behaviors do, on YouTube.
What a sweetheart! Fast-forward to Taylor Graham’s From the Pitch blog on April 10. (Earlier From the Pitch posts offer photos of the bare-chested young crush in question balancing a cabbage on his foot. Love it.)
Taylor wants to get 20K hits on Mandy’s video by June 1. Today’s count is just under 6K, so we’ve got some work to do, Sounders Fans! Have another listen, send it to your friends, and play it at your pregame party! Click, click click!
I fully intended to plug this effort when I thought the campaign might be floundering - maybe next week sometime. But this morning, I did in fact wake up with Mandy's song in my head. I laughed when Taylor Graham claimed that it happened to him. Right. That's cute, Taylor. It's just cute, cute, cute around MLS these days. And yet there it was as I was walking to work: “Evan brown hmmm mm see you frown. Hum ma mmm.”
Plus I thought with Brad Evan’s getting all the cutesy attention from CosmoGirl's (this is linked from the mls.net homepage!?) MLS Feature, maybe Evan Brown was feeling a little left out.
Thanks to SoundersBoard reader “tequilabb” for the reminder to spread the word! You can join the group in support of Mandy here.
