Are We Supposed To Hate Austin FC?
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- While Columbus Crew supporters were fighting to keep their team in Columbus, Austin and owner Anthony Precourt achieved villain status in MLS. But now that the Crew are saved and Austin are getting an expansion team, are we still looking at them as the enemy? Should Austin FC embrace the role as antagonist?
While editing this video, I realized I say 'honestly' a lot.
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Any growth in the league is GOOD. As an LA Galaxy fan I HATE LAFC, but I like that they exist. This is an MLS rivalry dream.
There is Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact.
The most powerful rivalry in all North America. Even surpass the hate between Mexican teams.
Why there both from LA
@@nightmaredababy136 LAFC is in LA. Galaxy is in the city of Carson.
@@ProfeFut I go for both teams :)
@@Yha1000itz funny
Austin will have a derby with Portland, they’ll fight over their city is more Hipster and Ironic their city is & who makes better Kambucha.
Portland is in its own league of weirdness and hipsters
Is very nice that you guys already have this kind of stuff. (Memes Rivalries)
Is what make the leagues spicy.
In LigaMX we have that. Let's built that kind of atmosphere in CONCACAF
and who has the better $5ea. artisanal donuts shop.
@@Yha1000itz no one cares about liga mx
@@thomasdavila1262 The people what are under MLS do.
I mean, there is a reason why MLS wanted to unify themselves with Liga MX
MLS is gonna have so many clubs, about time they're getting a second division. Just add an extra league between USL and MLS and set up relegation and promotion rules.
Ray Slavenburg there isn’t enough money to sustain a second division.
@@luisrosales9349 there would be if MLS would stop expanding and stop taking all the top teams from the 2nd division
Scott Low No, MLS gets money from expansion.
USL teams need individual tv deals and soccer specific stadiums so that it can be feasible for pro-real, MLS is young and is 25 years old.
Yes, too many teams top teir & no where to go but ....to a new city! With a Second Division (and the promotion/relegation system), more teams are on top (or nearly so) & all follow their clubs! Up the Villa!
I started laughing when you said that Columbus would accept Austin into the league "with open arms." Kudos to you for saying that with a straight face.
Not going to lie it took a couple takes lol. Thank you for watching!
This is one of the best soccer UA-cam channels on the internet. I really hope mls continues to grow in popularity and eventually add promotion/relegation!!
(I know I’m very late) but hey a fellow Razorback fan! Who are you a fan of in MLS?
I think Austin is going to have a great atmosphere and a packed stadium for every game. They are the perfect soccer population and they will have no competition since there are no other pro teams there. Austin FC will be big and that sucks for me as a Dynamo fan because my city just can't seem to get behind the team.
Man, it's gotta be tough being fourth banana in Houston. Being the only pro team in town is going to make it a party atmosphere. But I am looking forward to a fun rivalry with the Dynamo!
Wade I can’t wait to support Austin FC! The stadium will be like 10 mins away from my house and the energy is going to be great!
ATX FC vs Houston FC? Now that’s a game I’ll pay 300 bucks to see 👍😂
as a Dynamo fan i would say that Houston vs Austin and even Dallas vs Austin is going to be a real derby match. I already find myself getting fired up and wanting to beat them so bad!!! This is the one game i don't want the forever orange to lose. what do y'all think?
@@dougwarner We also beat houston :)
I'm a Galaxy fan but this move would have made me sad if Columbus lost there team and now im happy both sides are happy
This is what the MLS needs more than relegation/promotion. Real rivalry.
The thing is: relegation/promotion can create rivalries. Imagine you're an Inter Miami fan. In the last match, you'll face Orlando City away. Orlando desperately needs a win in order to stay in the MLS. The stadium is packed. Orlando fans doing their best to push the players forward. And then... Inter wins, the stadium suddenly goes dead silent. Orlando gets relegated.
These types of matches are the ones feeding real rivalries. Promotion/relegation is a huge part of rivalries. Making fun of your rival for a relegation, getting promoted and seeing your rival stay in the 2nd tier. It's fantastic.
@@joaopedropeixoto8558 Yeah except now you don't get to play them because they're in a different league. Not much of a rival.
0987654345678987654383728394738393746 it’s the banter you will play them eventually
@@KaullyHD it could be years until you play them again a real rivalry happens every year
@@southtext3400 if you're saying this, you don't know football. At all. Seeing a rival at their worst or being ahead of them is just as important as playing them. Rivalry is not just about matches and playoffs. That's what you americans are not understanding about legit rivalries around the world.If you want great rivalries, you gotta have promotion/relegation. the best example I can give you is the Belo Horizonte Derby here in Brazil, between Cruzeiro x Atlético-MG. Cruzeiro, last year, was relegated for the first time in its history. Atlético-MG fans raised a mosaic written "I will celebrate your suffering" in a match this year. Another fan rented a helicopter and painted a letter "B" in it, as an alusion to the série B, our second division.
Can’t wait for a Crew vs Austin FC derby!
it will never be a derby. we are no where near each other
@@Joe-ff6tk There are PLENTY of rivalries where the rivals are pretty far away from each other
@@DavidN16792 that does not make them a derby... now does it
@@Joe-ff6tk no, your right it does not. Precourt moving tryna move the crew is what the derby is based on. Also nice job liking ur own comment lmao
I hope for a Texas derby maybe between Austin snd Houston Dynamo or Dallas
Imagine Colombus and Austin having a Precourt Derby
lol
Nah, our derby is Hell is Real.
@@simpsonsfan09 some of us still despise the piece of shit.
Hey Danny, I think this video deserves a part 2 with Columbus wining the MLS Cup lol
Short answer? Austin, maybe. Precourt, absolutely.
Remember, one of the first things Precourt did after buying the Crew was take their games off local television and Fox Sports Ohio, and put them on Time Warner Sports, a channel more than 50% of central Ohio could not get. Then, when media coverage and attendance went down, he had the perfect reason to start looking for another market. Yeah, screw him.
Having a team in Austin will be Amazing. The average fan won’t care too much about the Precourt scandal, and like you said, he did some good shit with the crew.
If he had Austin in the original contract it means he wanted to be here from the start so hopefully he won’t be a douchebag with it.
Hawxaw now I don’t have to go to Frisco just to watch an MLS team I can just drive 1 1/2 hours out to watch one
Dude I'm an Austinite and I cant wait!! I'm pretty stoked that I wont have to travel anymore
@@scootamayne610 same bro. I want to see chicharito, vela, pizarro, pulido, pavon, etc. In Austin,also they might have Mexico vs USA games if they get a stadium.
I would love to see a video of how MLS ignored San Antonio FC
True William Bendele
Facts
Yes
As a San Antonio fc fan I’m pissed
*Phoenix rising
As an Austin FC fan, I hope we have a rivalry with Columbus because I want a rivalry that really means something other than the typical Texas interstate rivalry that doesn’t mean much like the Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys
Just discovered your channel, dig the MLS coverage, thank you for telling the story..a new subscriber for you sir!
I'm looking forward to Austin FC rivalries with Dallas and Houston - I don't see any animosity from Austin towards Columbus for a rivalry.
Native Austinite here. I do see animosity toward Columbus. We got so much hate from them. F them.
I hate Precourt! The fans. No! I don’t hate them.
idiot.
MLS should add a clause that you can move your club, but the name and the history stay with the city of origin. See Cleveland Browns.
I hope they have a rivalry too, but Austin aren’t really the villains here we are a great city that everyone loves and we can’t wait to win mls cup
Austin sucks!
@@miguelpadilla31 what makes you think Austin sucks
@@miguelpadilla31 oh nvm you're from San Antonio
@@miguelpadilla31 is it cause Austin bold took San Antonio out of the tourtament
FUCK NO! Austin bad.
We still need a save the Crew video
I didn't think they could save the Crew but they did.
San Antonio got shafted. They already have their own stadium. They were doing well as San Antonio Scorpions FC - then went to shit when a new owner bought them, being rebranded as San Antonio FC. Probably why they got overlooked.
I'm a casual Seattle Sounders fan, I really don't feel one-way or another about Austin FC since the Crew were saved.
As a former Austinite this video is amazing and I didn’t really know that it was has such a huge impact on the other club. Love the vids especially the CONCACAF stories and the jersey ratings. You should make those type of videos on other leagues
7:41 cracked me up to see the Patriots in the American Villians List lmfao
As a Crew season ticket holder in the Nordecke, I want Austin to crash and burn. I want Precourt to suffer. I will never forgive him for trying to steal my team.
Copa90 just did a dope series on this story.
I didn't dislike Austin until you showed that Matthew McCaunneghy picture.
As a crew fan absolutely hate Austin fc and precourt, he tried to sell our team out of columbus!! Now we are champions
Well that would be another rival for Dallas and Houston IF it happened lol
Nice vid! I think the first few years will be pretty contentious but will eventually fizzle out. We have FCC right down the road to scratch that itch.
Yeah good video bud, but yeah I don't really care about Austin. And I don't think the rivalry will really last or work out in the next 10 years. I'd rather just hope that Austin builds a bigger rivalry with Houston and Dallas. Little Texas derby
I’m ok with it happening. Dallas will whoop Austin’s ass
Out of this 3 team Houston is 1 Austin is 2 and Dallas is way down #3 lmao
@@watermelon_boi Only a Houstonian would say Houston is #1 lol. How's your team been working out for ya? Dynamo is about as bad as the Texans. Sports fans from Houston are delusional lol.
Jasper Edwards lmao I’m from Austin live in Austin and is there a problem me supporting a team? And plus Austin FC is gonna be my team when there here
As an FC Dallas fan I pray that Austin fails spectacularly. They weren’t there in the beginning. We’re there when soccer needed them in this country. Now they jumped on the sport as a trend. They don’t deserve a team.
I will never hate austin fc.
I'm so glad Columbus didn't leave. Without Columbus mls would never be the same. You think mls at the beginning. You think the crew.
I hate how columbus is getting a new stadium cause mapfre is the most iconic soccer stadium in the usa (only turned 21 this yeat surprisingly). But at least the crew stay.
And this is coming from a guy who was born, raised, and lives in Ann Arbor!!!!!
So if it was either columbus leaves and austin gets a team. I'm cool with that.
As an Austin FC fans I totally agree with being a villain in mls
Freak you. We San Antonio fans are angry
Precourt was only following MLS orders IMO.
I was there when the scoreboard caught fire
Outside of the Columbus Crew nobody hates Austin. Other supporters groups have their own rivalries to worry about.
this would be good for rivalries in mls...
galaxy vs. lafc,
Mtl vs. toronto,
NY vs. NY
and now crew vs. austin... i’m also talking about big rivalries... not ones like dallas vs. Houston (no offense)
See look the fans where there and supporting there team but the main reason is Austin Texas is one of the best city’s to live in and it’s growing really quickly ,so I see this working out for Austin especially in the future because Austin is growing fast but let me know what you think 🤔
Could be worse. They could have actually stolen the players, team, entire franchise, switched it over to an expansion team, and proceed to win two MLS Cups.
Rot in hell, Houston. 🔵⚫️
I'm sorry, I can't hear you while you're being beaten down by Seattle or LA Galaxy again.
@@M_11_m41n I’ll give you Seattle, but the past few years we’ve had our way with Galaxy, what do you mean??? 😭
@@shilOMG LA Galaxy: And when has anybody cared because we won more titles than you. Meanwhile, you're stuck looking at the Sharks to see if they can do something....
@@M_11_m41n And none of those titles have been anytime recent enough to matter anymore.
Not you bringing other sports into this lmaooooo I’m crying 🤣
@@shilOMG You guys not being able to go to the playoffs or being a competent team at all is recent and does matter.
Why yes, we are. I hope the Crew throttles them by large margins and that they stay in the bottom of the table every season.
Great video! I was so stoked when Columbus got to keep their club. I know how it feels to lose your team because the Earthquakes were ripped from us. We had 2 MLS Cups under our belt and that very same squad went on to win 2 more Cups in Houston making it even harder on us in SJ. YOU'RE WELCOME HOUSTON. If it wasn't for the San Jose Earthquakes team with our manager Dom Kinnear you'd have zero stars above your crest. That team is the most unrecognized MLS dynasty IMHO. If that club had stayed in San Jose Landon Donovan would never have moved and they most likely would have won even MORE Cups.
Agreed, those stars should have stayed with San Jose
Love the team. Support your team. It looks great!
I think it was an escape hatch. He probably started making money, but didn't make it as fast as he wanted, so pulled the trigger thinking he could make it faster
I hate Austin fc for taking San Antonio fc spot 😡🤬
Don’t blame Austin. The poors in San Antonio are reason there is only on pro team in the city.
MLS needs to take more advantage of Markets that have no Professional Sports Teams like Austin or Albequerque. The support they get is always really good. I think Austin's Stadium could have possibly even been made 2times the size
That original Colombus Crew badge is sick
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am Brazilian and I always liked the old Columbus Crew logo. The current one is also cool, but I prefer the previous one.
but Austin Fc fans and the Columbus crew fans will have a fight before the game and after games or when the result is shown after match plus get ready
As long as I live in San Antonio, I will be going to Austin FC games. Cheering against them of course.
U mad
Space Cowboy Nah. Just have more reason to cheer against them. I'm a long time Galaxy fan who moved to SA 3 years ago so they were never going to be my team.
I support MLS to San Antonio
(From a Crew fan)
@@goldeneagle87dy Well, it'll never happen hahah
Space Cowboy lol 😂 I Love in Austin and I always had to go to Houston to watch them play but now we gonna have a team in our own backyards! I Love Houston FC but now I can never stop supporting my home city team
I hope we can be the villains
You are already to us San Antonio fc 😡
The old logo with the three dudes looks cool if the team were a dance crew. Lol
As a Crew fan. F Austin #precumout
Great video by the way. 💓🔥 you guys aren't our rivals anymore.
I'm not a Crew fan but, screw Austin FC lmaoo
Austin vs Crew SC is gonna be the biggest rivalry in MLS history
I enjoy the branding and the aesthetic, but Precourt's kind of the... Worst. I've enjoyed supporting the "villain" in sports, so that brings some appeal to me, but as someone from Missouri, I'm probably gonna wait until the St. Louis team develops further before I get too far into the MLS.
As a Seattle Sonics fan, this story hit different
“I looked around and I saw a lot of rock and roll heroes, but I didn’t see any villains. So I asked myself, where’s Captain Hook?” - Alice Cooper
If it makes Crew fans feel better, we had Aztex 1 move to Orlando and become a MLS team, and Aztex 2 waited until they were gonna lose their franchise before putting a team on the field, which is now the Bold. So although we haven't been screwed by an MLS team, we have been by 2 USL teams.
There is no team in Milton Keynes that can claim to be the dons, just a team plying it's trade in Milton Keynes.
I liked the old badge, I thought it was unique has well
I’m an austinite, and trying to catch up on MLS, I didn’t know any of this. I just thought Columbus wanted to keep their team.
Stoked to get into soccer, hopefully there’s a respectful/good amount of beef here (?)
bruh, as a Crew fan, I'm ready to burn any Austin FC fans that come to Columbus. It's comparable to Browns vs Ravens in the NFL. I love that FCC is the Crew's new top rival, and this would be right up there with it.
Im a austin fan. Had no idea about the team steal attempt. All I knew was we won the bid for an expansion slot, and im happy. Now we may be last place but its been a blast the entire time.
Yall can be mad all you want, but its legit one sided. A large portion of us dont even realize yall hate us, and an even smaller percentage probably care 🤣. Like the video said, just get over it man.
Atlanta needs some actual rivals, right now our "rilvals" Orlando are not good enough. I consider Portland a bigger rival just because we beat them for the championship.
With Charlotte FC coming to town that may happen. Especially if they are successful
Just came across your video.... great job!
I'm Italian and I can say that I don't really understand this "American practice" of moving professional teams from a city to another one, fortunately there are few examples like that in Europe, and I think that it's not even so easy to do that because most of football clubs
foundation here dates back over a hundred years ago and there is a very strong link between cities and their clubs...I've been following MLS for a long time and yeah I'm so happy for Crew supporters.
You see that across all sports in North America and there are certain cities that are still scarred from this.
There are lots of North American sports teams over 100 years old. It's just that the teams are seen as franchises for businesses and not cultural institutions.
No mention of Austin Bold?! That's a huge storyline!
This hapenned in México too but the team that they disapeared now plays in the second division
Don the con Garber is the number one enemy because he allowed this nonsense. Every MLS fan should be livid Precourt not paying an expansion fee is a league wide disaster.
As a non-Columbus fan Austin will be hated by many 1st because of Precourt, and secondly because of how they got into MLS.
And the story will be told and retold for years to come. And if San Antonio can survive, and IF we ever get Pro-Rel got danggit that rivalry will also be heated.
Adding stadium sponsorship just put more money in his pocket (fee for the sponsorship) and the new logo simply caused an uptick in merchandise sales with the new logo (putting more money in his pocket as well)
Austin FC expansion= Great idea
First phase of Execution was subpar but the ball has really gotten rolling and Austin will be a great soccer community.
A lot of Crew fans are still in the "Blame Precourt for everything" phase. When do you think crew fans will put pressure on themselves and their owners to perform?
This aged well
Can we get a video on San Antonio getting skipped over??
Very interesting video, can’t wait for MLS in ATX! We released a theme song for Austin FC called “McKalla Place” with vocals by one of the newly signed youth Austin FC members, enjoy y’all: ua-cam.com/video/2UBCisc0idc/v-deo.html
I'm not a Crew fan. But I refuse to play Austin FC in Football Manager. Because Precourt. And this despite the fact i played 6yrs as manager of Evil Empire RB Leipzig.
No. I grew up in Minnesota when we lost the North Stars.(And almost the Twins.) Lived in Seattle when the Sonics bolted. And now love in SW Missouri and had a ringside seat for the Rams re-leaving. (Now, no emotion for the last, because I don't root for St Louis anything). So I get a fanbase's rage at their team doing an Indy Colts. I don't blame the city of Austin. But until Precourt is gone, they're on the list of teams we hate.
best mls channel 💫
Maybe it is a “created” rivalry
Imagine talking bad about the crew badge and not knowing a thing about it while liking Chicago's...
The save the Crew movement was in vain because they changed the logo into this weird shit now. And seriously what was wrong with the three guys just staring into the distance like they're high?
You are right about that Danny. Columbus will never forgive Precourt and his thinking he can put the moves on the Crew. But they can forget what happen, that is what I think. Also, I am hoping that Precourt would come back to Columbus. The Shitstorm will be heavy. But after some time, the people of the two cities will forget about this. Also, Precourt maybe shitting bricks when he hear that The Crew won the #MLSCup2020 But really, it is all thanks to him that Columbus is stepping up and getting the team to fight harder. #ColumbusCrew
As an Impact fan, I'll always hate TFC first and foremost. They're bastards. But as a former fan of the Expos, whose never forgotten the pain of someone stealing your team? I hope Austin FC gets their asses kicked. I hope their fans know nought but sorrow. I hope their owner loses all his money.
Glad Columbus got to keep thr Crew. Im an Austin FC season ticket holder but I wouldnt be if that had happened. Fuck that. We dont trust Precourt, but so far it has been fine. Well outside of 20 dollar IPA's.
There are still Baltimore Residents who still have Hate for the Irsay's after lying that they ain't moving the Colts and then Leaves. A Cleveland Fan pissed on Art Rooney's Grave because he still hated how he moved the the Browns to Baltimore to become the Ravens. #SaveTheCrew should be a 30 for 30. Does ESPN even have an MLS 30 for 30? Also I can't wait until the First Matchup between Columbus & Austin. That's the Real "Hell is Real" right there!
The Austin rugby team is the saddest team in MLR. They just need to scrap it or move it to somewhere where it might actually work, like somewhere Ohio, or, if I had my way, Charleston, South Carolina.
I feel as though American soccer craves a proper rivalry sooooo much but it will be a long time coming because they happen over time not over night or over a split decision
Question: what then was the reaction when San Jose moved to Houston? Similar thing or very different?
Probably kinda similar but as mls popularity wasn’t nearly as big as it is today and with the ease of getting an expansion team in a proven market compared to now, it likely wasn’t as extreme
As an LAFC fan I thought the black and gold was the villain of the league ,everyone seems triggered at the teams existence
#WeAreLAFC
Ya know the old saying "I only root for two teams, X and whoever plays against Y"?
I wonder what RSL fans are gonna do when Kansas City Plays Austin
University of Texas football is more or less a professional team. And very popular.
I think the original logo was badass
A good business move for the MLS would be t0o franchise teams wherever NFL close or move. eg start an Oakland Raiders MLS team (just make the logo slightly different to avoid copyright issues) and tap into a huge and frustrated raiders fanbase in their spiritual home of Oakland.
Move to the southside of Chicago so you can meet Andre Reynolds
San Antonio wasn't passed for shit. The fans are there, the money's there, the stadium is there, but the ownership groups in S.A. HATE MLS and Garber. They hate the set up of the league, how the league does business etc.
Trust me, as a supporter of both iterations of the Aztex, I don't trust Precourt, I despise Phil Rawlins (the guy that yoinked the first aztex when he saw it wasn't going to be cheap or easy) and I don't very much care for MLS.
HOWEVER football has been in my blood since 98. Im 32.
In short don't hate, participate in a tailgate and a kick about with some booze and bbq bud. While we have a cause for it.
Cheers man.
-JJ
Add Seattle, RSL, LA Galaxy, and have The Woketard Cup.
DONT you think that it kids be bad to move the first ever MLS team in history?
The new Columbus crew logo is beautiful what you talkin about
I am very excited to have Austin FC in the league. I think Austin will be a great home for a team. It’s fits the demographics well and the branding is looking good so far. I know the situation was not ideal when Precourt tried to relocate the crew, but now both will be in a better situation
4:57 I live in Austin and that’s the first time I’ve ever heard of it
I wish it were San Antonio and not Austin that got the team, I think San Antonio is a better market and they already had a soccer-specific stadium with expansion plans that were super cool.
To many poors in San Antonio.
I could never support a football team called SC. Crew should change to FC.
Austin FC..'No one likes us, we dont care.' Haha