On Tuesday night, we planned to take a bunch of summer clerks to see the FC Dallas v. LA Galaxy soccer game. The big draw for this particular game (there aren’t may draws, big or otherwise, for the MLS in Dallas) was David Beckham. This was to be his first MLS game away from LA. By last Friday, all 20,500 seats were sold.
And then on Monday morning it was announced that Becks wasn’t going to play and hadn’t even made the trip because of his injured ankle. And because The Oven (my monkier for Pizza Hut Park) is just south of the Oklahoma border, we left the office at 4:45 for the 7:00 kickoff–to no significant benefit as we still didn’t get there until 6:30.
Emma and Layla had a great time
We had reserved a section of the party deck, which is an open-air area on each end of the suites. Though we were down on one endline, the seats were actually pretty nice. The catered food wasn’t great, but it was good enough for two scantily clad women who just walked up to our buffet, helped themselves to a plate full of barbecue and beers, and sat amongst us for fifteen minutes while they ate. Then, full of food and beer, they left. Very odd.
Who are these women and why are they eating our food?
With a couple of extra tickets, Emma and Layla came along. The packed house was irritated at Becks’ absence, as was a Dallas Morning News‘ columnist. And then Dallas came out unbelievably flat, giving up 4 goals in the first 20 minutes. I’ve never seen anything like it. They did manage to get one goal back before halftime. The second half started pretty blandly, but Dallas started putting it together around the 75th minute. The game ended up pretty entertaining with Dallas clawing back to 4-3 before Landicakes made it 5-3 and shushed the crowd followed by a throat-slash gesture and mouthing “game over.” But like most everything else with Landicakes, he was wrong. Each team scored at least one more goal over the last couple minutes of regulation and in extra time–5-4, then 6-4, and finally 6-5, which is more of an indoor soccer score.
Is there a sign for “make a single important international goal before talking smack”? Maybe it’s me causing LD to be so bad; every time I watch him (including Beck’s first game a couple of weeks ago) he is just terrible.
I don’t know. They say he’s a decent man, so maybe his advisers are confused.
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