FSN will be showing Portland v Seattle
as a member of the membership council, we were sent quite a few requests from fans pleading that we try to get the portland v seattle match on FSN. dave clark, over at sounder at heart laid out some pretty obviously logic in this post the other day.
so, in a smattering of emails between us council members, i took some input from gandalf and samwise gamgee and took half the afternoon writing what i thought to be a well composed email, with all of the reasons why FSN must show the game, and sent it to FSN’s director of programming and VP of content. with all the edits and grammar checks etc, it probably was a few hours before i sent off the email from start to finish.
3 minutes later, i get an email from the VP of content saying all of
We are planning to carry the game. Thanks for your input
AWESOME.
to be honest, i wasn’t expecting that easy of an answer, and i surely didn’t expect it that quickly.
i pressed him a little to get a few more details… mainly, will it be in HD? will it be live? and the question all of us want to know… if the yankees and mariners go into extra innings…. will the sounders game get delayed and shown at the end that game? or will we join it live at the completion the m’s game? i haven’t heard back on that one, but i will let you know when i do. i don’t think it is reasonable to expect they cut away from the M’s game if it is going long, but it is reasonable to expect that they delay the broadcast and show it in it’s entirety the second the mariners game completes.
without getting to far ahead of ourselves on this matter (i.e. the game hasn’t been shown yet), i think kudo’s to FSN for their recognition of what is truly the right thing to do here. and yes there was a right or wrong answer to this question.
OFFICIAL RELEASE
The Portland Timbers announced today that the team’s match against Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders FC in the third round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on Wednesday, July 1, at PGE Park will be broadcast live on FSN; kickoff is slated for 7 p.m.
The third-round matchup between the Timbers and Sounders FC will be the first official meeting between the Northwest rivals since Seattle joined MLS in 2009. The spirited Portland-Seattle rivalry dates back to 1975 when both were a part of the North American Soccer League. As members of the USL First Division, Portland and Seattle battled through nearly 30 regular-season matches over eight seasons as well as multiple playoff and U.S. Open Cup contests.
The July 1 matchup against Seattle on FSN will replace the Timbers’ previously scheduled FSN broadcast on Sept. 13 against the Cleveland City Stars.
A live broadcast of the Timbers’ U.S. Open Cup fixture against Seattle will also air on 95.5 The Game.
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, which is recognized as U.S. Soccer’s National Championship, is an annual competition open to all amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with U.S. Soccer. The tournament has crowned a champion for 95 consecutive years dating back to 1914.
