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Join the March.

Our 2018 FC Cincinnati season ticket booklet showed up in the mail today…

All the tickets have different players on them like Kenney Walker…

Jimmy McLaughlin…

And ex-Arsenal man, Justin Hoyte…

Along with our tickets were two of these terrific 2018 season ticket member flags…

FC Cincinnati’s 2018 campaign is off to a very good start with two 1-0 away wins at both Charleston Battery and Indy Eleven. FC|C’s first home match is Saturday, April 7th at 7pm against rival Louisville City FC. We’re really excited for another season of FC Cincinnati soccer. #JoinTheMarch 😀⚽️🎟️❤️

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by Thadd F. on March 26, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, FC Cincinnati, Northside, Odd & Ends, Sports

Tagged #JoinTheMarch, 2018, Cincinnati, FC Cincinnati, Home Sweet Home, March, Northside, Ohio, Season Tickets, Soccer, Sports

Posted by Thadd F. on March 26, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/03/26/join-the-march/

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY! We walked across Northside to Boswell’s late this afternoon…

We met up our friends Chris and Tayler at Boswell’s. Genifer and I shared some delicious Bos Bites smothered in Bos sauce…

Genifer had a Super Grill and I had a Reuben. Both were delicious. Genifer’s green was her Golden Girls Sophia pin…

From Boswell’s, we walked over to Higher Gravity…

And there were some Irish Car Bombs…

We watched our FC Cincinnati win their first game of the 2018 season 1-0 away to Charleston Battery. We ended up hanging out at Higher Gravity to watch Michigan’s miraculous madness last-second 64-63 win over Houston to advance Michigan to the Sweet Sixteen. After the game, Michigan head coach John Beilein’s locker antics were pretty awesome. It was an amazing ending to a great day…

Yep. It was a pretty great St. Patrick’s Day! 😀🍀🍻❤️

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by Thadd F. on March 17, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends, Sports

Tagged 2018, Boswell's Alley, Cincinnati, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, Holidays, March, Northside, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted, Shaken not stirred, St. Patrick's Day, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on March 17, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day-3/

Preseason FC Cincinnati soccer.

FC Cincinnati finally returned to Nippert Stadium this afternoon in preseason form. FC Cincy was playing host to the USL’s Sacramento Republic FC. Did I mention it was at Nippert Stadium? Last Saturday, FC|C played host to Nashville SC at University of Cincinnati’s Gettler Stadium. Gettler Stadium is the home for both the UC men’s and women’s soccer teams, as well as the men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams. We had tickets to last week’s friendly but skipped it and adopted a dog instead. With today’s friendly being played in the friendly confines of beautiful Nippert Stadium, how could we stay away? FC Cincinnati soccer is back at Nippert! Let’s go!

In what has become a prematch tradition dating back to the beginning of last season, we stopped at Mac’s Pizza Pub in Clifton before the match to get some lunch and watch UC’s basketball game against Memphis in the semi-finals of the American Athletic Conference tournament. Mac’s was packed full of Bearcat fans cheering on their basketball team. I don’t really care for the Bearcats basketball program much at all but the atmosphere was pretty infectious, the food was just great as always and the draft beers were only $1 during the Bearcats basketball game…

Just look at that monster of a burger…

After the Bearcat’s punched their ticket to the championship game, we walked over to Nippert Stadium for FC|C preseason soccer…

We spent the first half standing in the sun behind The Bailey. It felt really nice when you were in the sun…

We spent the second half of the match watching from behind our season ticket seats. And it was pretty darn chilly when you weren’t in the sun. FC CINCINNATI GOAL!!!

Both Genifer and I missed FC Cincy’s goal. And there wasn’t any video so no replay…

Bummer. Did I mention it was pretty chilly when you weren’t in the sun?

And the match ended 2-1 to Sacramento…

It was really great to be back at Nippert watching some FC Cincinnati soccer again.The team looked pretty good. With FC|C signing 17 new players in the offseason and with only 9 returning players, I imagine there are still so kinks to be worked out trying to get the team to gel. We can’t wait for FC Cincinnati’s home opener on April 7th at 7pm against Lousiville City FC. Hopefully, it’ll be a little bit warmer in a few weeks. But I’m not going to hold my breath. 😀⚽️🔶🔷❤️

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by Thadd F. on March 10, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, FC Cincinnati, Odd & Ends, Sports, Uptown

Tagged 2018, Cincinnati, FC Cincinnati, March, Nippert Stadium, Ohio, Preseason, Sacramento Republic FC, Soccer, Uptown, USL

Posted by Thadd F. on March 10, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/03/10/preseason-fc-cincinnati-soccer/

Timehopping.

One year ago today, we got this awesome Twister selfie at the Cyclones game…

Thanks for remembering, Timehop! We haven’t made it to one Cyclones hockey game yet this season. We’re hoping to get to at least one game in March now that I’m actually able to walk a better. And we definitely can’t wait to get back our normal schedule of Cyclones hockey games next season once my hips are good again. 😀👇📷🏒❤️

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by Thadd F. on February 22, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Central Business District, Cyclones hockey, Odd & Ends, Sports

Tagged #Timehop, 2018, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Cyclones, Cyclones hockey, Downtown, February, Ohio, One year ago, Taken with Instagram, US Bank Arena

Posted by Thadd F. on February 22, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/02/22/timehopping/

Gearing up for another season with FC|C.

FC Cincinnati has a new kit for their third season of exciting USL soccer action. So this afternoon, I crutched my way across downtown to the FC Cincinnati Team Store to pick up my brand new FC Cincinnati home jersey that had just arrived…

It was supposed to be all bang-bang, in and out but I made the mistake of stopping to look at the other new merch in the store. On the women’s side, I was really digging on these two FC|C sweatshirts for Genifer…

After a quick consultation via text with Genifer, she decided on the blue hoodie. What’s awesome about hoodies like this is that they zip up extra high on the neck. And they’re hoodies. Genifer got me an Arsenal hoodie for Christmas that has an extra high zip and it’s quickly become one of my very favorite sweatshirts. Because of the zip and well, it’s a navy Arsenal hoodie.

Also with the first real preseason match right against Nashville SC right around the corner on March 3rd, I figured I might as well pick up a couple of FC Cincinnati winter hats in case the weather decides to get all wintery on us again. I got one of each of these stocking caps. We’ll bicker about who gets to wear which one later. I’m just kidding, we don’t bicker. At all…

I got myself a new FC Cincinnati hoodie with a high zip as well…

And it has an embroidered crest on the arm…

And here’s my new FC|C 2018 home jersey…

I’m a little disappointed in it. Both the Nike logo and Toyota sponsor are part of the fabric of the jersey. On last season’s jersey, the Nike logo was embroidered and the Toyota logo was an applique. Also, I feel like I’m going to have to be extra careful with the FC|C crest. At first glance, it seems like you could easily peel it right off. It’s just kind of crazy that both sweatshirts I purchased feel like much more quality items than the jersey. And I really dig the extra little-embroidered details both of the sweatshirts have. Plus, the two sweatshirts combined cost just a little bit more than one jersey. To be honest, right now the jersey is just a little bit whomp-whomp to me. I’m sure it’ll grow on me as we get into the season. Oh well, #JoinTheMarch, right?

We’ll pick Genifer up a new jersey just as soon as FC Cincinnati announces when women’s or kids sizes are going to be in stock. 😀⚽️🔷🔶❤️

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by Thadd F. on February 22, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Central Business District, FC Cincinnati, Odd & Ends, Sports

Tagged 2018, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Downtown, FC Cincinnati, February, New gear, New kit, Ohio, Team Shop

Posted by Thadd F. on February 22, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/02/22/gearing-up-for-another-season-with-fcc/

Superb Owl Sunday.

Well, the result of The Big Game™ didn’t turn quite as I would have liked. I guess Tom Brady and the Patriots can’t win all the Superb Owls. It’s awful nice of them to let someone else win one every now and then. But it was still a good game. And there were some pretty good commercials. Oh well. Onto the next sports ball season already in progress. 😀🦉🏈❤️

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by Thadd F. on February 4, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Odd & Ends, Sports

Tagged 2018, Cincinnati, February, Football, Home Sweet Home, NFL, Northside, Ohio, Seen and noted, Sports, Superb Owl

Posted by Thadd F. on February 4, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/02/04/superb-owl-sunday/

Sunday Funday.

We went back to Taft’s Brewpourium to watch Michigan take on Rutgers. We hadn’t been to the Brewpourium for a quick minute…

While we were watching the game, we ordered another one of Taft’s New Haven-style apizzas, some of their delicious garlic knots, loaded tots topped with Cincinnati chili and some great Taft’s beers…

Everything was as delicious as always. And Michigan beat Rutgers 62-47! We always have a good time at Taft’s Brewpourium. 😀🍕📺🏀❤️

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by Thadd F. on January 21, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends, Sports

Tagged 2018, Cincinnati, Home Sweet Home, January, NCAA College basketball, New Haven style pizza, Northside, Ohio, Spring Grove Village, Taft's Brewporium, University of Michigan

Posted by Thadd F. on January 21, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/01/21/sunday-funday-6/

Meanwhile in Michigan…

Tonight, my parents went to see #11 Western Michigan take on Colorado College at Lawson Ice Arena in Kalamazoo. We tuned in to watch the game on CBS Sports. While we were watching, we kept an eye out for my parents. I thought I recognized the white stripes on my dad’s jacket in the crowd…

And then coming back from a commercial, there were my parents…

It was pretty neat to see my mom & dad on TV. And it was a really good hockey game too. Western defeated Colorado College 3-2 in overtime! 😀📺🏒❤️

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by Thadd F. on January 19, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends, Sports

Tagged 2018, As seen on TV, Cincinnati, Fiala Family, hockey, Home Sweet Home, Janaury, Northside, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Pure Michigan, Seen and noted, Western Michigan hockey

Posted by Thadd F. on January 19, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/01/19/meanwhile-in-michigan/

Northside Sunday.

This afternoon we walked down Hamilton Avenue to go check out the FC Cincinnati Fan Appreciation Tour which was making a stop at Second Place…

We thought there would be a representative on-hand promoting or representing the club. Maybe trying to sign people up for season tickets, answering questions about FC Cincy’s possible promotion to MLS or the latest on FC|C’s plans for a soccer-specific stadium or even just shaking some hands. Maybe if we were really lucky, there’d be a player or two on-hand. But nothing. The FC Cincinnati Far Appreciation Tour meant you could get a Moerlein FC Cincinnati Blood Orange IPA just $3 from 11am to 2pm. That’s it. Boy, do I feel appreciated. 😶 It was also the Manchester Derby: City versus United so Second Place was pretty crowded what with it being the Cincinnati hub of all things City and all…

We’ve watched a couple of big Manchester City matches at Second Place. There’s this one guy who’s a City supporter who is very vocal and very loud and his voice is so annoying that it makes it really difficult for me to watch City matches at Second Place. I’m just happy Second Place isn’t an Arsenal supporters hang out. Because that guy… whoa. Don’t get me wrong, I really love Second Place just not during Manchester City matches. But that’s just me.

We stayed until just before halftime and then broke camp to watch the second half at Higher Gravity. And in walking the block from Second Place to Higher Gravity, we missed two goals. The first forty-plus minutes, nothing. The last three minutes of the half, two goals. It figures. We watched City knock off United 2-1. Higher Gravity still had Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout on tap…

That beer was pretty amazing. We hung out and watched the Bengals get thumped by the Bears and then just came home. It was yet another really fun afternoon in Northside. 😀⚽️🍺🏈❤️

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by Thadd F. on December 10, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, FC Cincinnati, Northside, Odd & Ends, Sports