Mobile Apps Encapsulate Timbers v Sounders Rivalry
by Dave Clark on Apr 7, 2011 9:25 PM PDT
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PrintThe Seattle Sounders released a mobile app that initially seems redundant with the MLS app. Except for a few notable differences. It works. It has live gameday audio for league and non-league matches for the Senior team. It has fans interacting. It works. The app is being polished prior to development on other platforms, but it is expected to be out during this season on at least one other smart phone OS (either Android or Windows Mobile).
In the mean time the Seattle tech team is redeveloping the mobile web version of their site. It will have news, blogs, video, the full roster, stats and you should expect to see an announcement soon. Oh, again, it WORKS, even in beta.
Our southern brethren took an entirely different angle with their recent mobile app.
Yep, nothing says Major League Soccer like a game designed around cutting down cartoon versions of a derisive nickname of the opponent. Yes, it is real.
But you know what? It will work for them. Just like their season ticket advertisements aren't about soccer, neither is this. What this is, is an effort to feed their base. They do it well.
They know who they are. From front-office, through the coaches, to the players to the Timbers Army, they know who and what they are.
So does Seattle.
Both strategies are perfect for their markets. I'm also quite glad I'm in the city I am.
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Are those fish?
Are fish a nickname for the Chicago Fire? Or did you not mean the opponents in any particular week? Do the fish have something to do with Seattle?
Nos Audietis
Ah
Was there ever a fan base as obsessively focused on a team other than their own than the TA? Vancouver focuses on their own team. Seattle focuses on their own team. TA obsessives talk more about the Sounders than they do their own club. Kind of creepy.
Which is not to say that there aren’t many wonderful Timbers supporters. But there’s a huge element there that has some issues.
Nos Audietis
by sidereal on Apr 7, 2011 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Some Fulham fans
Are bigger Chelsea haters than Fulham fans. I’ve run into a few at the pubs, but it’s not as widespread as the TA’s obsession with Seattle.
As it says above, it is coming
I am not a Supporter | I am not a Fan | I am a Sounder
Sounder At Heart
It says either Android or WP87
My money’s on Android.
by chrisperry1983 on Apr 8, 2011 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Nothing says "Authentic Soccer City USA"
like blatantly ripping off a popular time-waster app. With badly rendered flat fish.
You will hear us on Brougham, you will hear us on Occidental, you will hear us on King. We are all around you, there is no escape.
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