Get Your Girls Out!

This is my little version of Girls Gone Wild, right on here on your very own Soundersboard. If you've got body parts you would like to show the world (or a very small portion of it) on our blog, send some pics on over!

A Pictorial Welcome Back to the Pitch For Our Man Kasey Keller

Today is the day that Kasey Keller steps back into the net for Sounders FC. And that makes me feel kinda like this (and it's also inspired my attire for this evening's match):

After all, when I join 28,000 of my Sounders brothers and sisters at Xbox Pitch tonight, I’ll know that the man in the black and gray is back in charge of the boys in green:

And if it comes down to it, we can count on him for some of this:


But as Sigi Schmid said this week, a good goalkeeper is about presence as much as anything. So good luck stepping up to this, Earthquakes. He's going to squeeze your little heads:



I'm betting we'll be throwing our arms in the air in victory by match end:



And thanking Kasey for his top-notch skills, and also for the compliment he gave us in the NY Time’s Goal blog when he pointed out that the Sounders “play before an educated crowd. You won’t hear any big cheers when I kick the ball far!”

Yikes. If that’s true, Kasey, I am deeply sorry. Maybe that was back in these days when the girls with their tight-rolled jeans screamed, “Wow! He kicked the ball far!”

Kasey is the man.

PS - Expect to continue to see me find tangential ways to post pictures of Kasey with a mullet until the end of time.

Who's Hot?

Boobs thus far have been a prevalent theme here, but what we really want to know is who's hot? Check out Dan Savage's take on the Sounders: and weigh in here with your own opinion.... Who's the hottest Sounder? And, perhaps, more importantly, who is the hottest Sounders Fan?

SoundersBoard: Who are you and why are you here?

Welcome to SoundersBoard! We began drunkenly after a recent Sounders game. That’s the problem with early afternoon games. What do you do with yourself by 4pm – Sleep? Keep drinking? Create a blog? Keep drinking and create a blog? Bingo! Apologies if you somehow found your way to our site that day, although you did get to see some good pictures of... never mind. At least we managed to fix the spelling of the site from the original listing of SoundersBored.

We’re a group of Seattle friends who have found themselves somewhat accidentally in love with Seattle Sounders FC. In a matter of weeks we’ve come to obsess about our local club. The result has been copious hours spent “homing from work” (a variation of working from home) in which we spend a few hours a day looking for good Sounders FC stuff online – videos, articles, pictures, fan camaraderie, anything to feed the soul of a fan between matches. After just a few weeks into the season it’s clear that either we are spending too much time homing from work or there are not enough Sounders FC happenings on the web. Enter SoundersBoard.

SoundersBoard is about fans. We’re no experts and we’re not pretending to be serious (as if the boobs didn’t give that away already). This is a place for fans in the true sense of the word:

fa⋅nat⋅ic  [fuh-nat-ik] –noun
1. a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics [or soccer].

We’re rather extreme in our enthusiasm (again, boobs) and we are wholly uncritical. Which is why you’ll want to bookmark another blog that debates whether Stellar McPlayer should be part of the starting lineup if that’s what you’re in to. We like that too but can’t promise any incisive commentary from this group. Instead we’ll provide a forum to celebrate girl/boy meets soccer club meets thirty thousand new confederates in a city that they love.

With any luck we’ll contribute to a community of Sounders FC fans that are rabid in their support and a little risqué in their approach. Wanna “Show us your (or your girlfriend’s) ah... scarf?” Got some great photos or video from a recent game or pre/post-funk where you got your swerve on? Send them to soundersboard@gmail.com.

And also, we’re hilarious. Welcome to our world.