The match was a snoozefest, but it was a lovely evening, and all of the dogs were well behaved. Pittsburgh is a dull football club and both teams having put forward tons of effort in their midweek US Open Cup matches, Lou City couldn’t penetrate the Riverhounds fortress of no creativity. Speaking of a lack of creativity. Being a Pittsburgh sports fan must be a drag for any person who prefers a multi-colored sports related wardrobe. Everything in Pittsburgh pro sports must be required by law to be yellow and black. The Riverhounds away kits did at least have some grey in them (ooh exciting!), but Elizabeth summed up their look at “slept in pajamas”.

Lou City came out in a not black third kit for once (yay!) but opted for black’s first cousin, navy blue. The new kit has meaning behind it, and I bought one so those are the positives. The navy in the kit looks darker than Louisville’s flag, so I feel like they should have matched that color. However, there is a certain section of the fanbase who is greatly offended by any shade of blue approaching royal blue, so that isn’t really an option. Arsenal at many points in time in recent memory has featured just about every color (bar orange for some reason) in a kit although home is always red and white. That’s why I can say “North London is Red” but also have blue and white in my wardrobe without feeling some bizarre allegiance to a color. I save my bizarre allegiances to badges.

Pittsburgh sucks by the way. If you feel like I should provide some evidence to that assertion, my evidence is look around. I can think of no reason to every visit there. West Virginia could annex it, and I don’t think anyone would mind. There are some good things about the city. The architecture looks cool, and the number of bridges seem to be a point of pride. The Pitt is an excellent show. My only bone to pick with it, is that it could be more realistic. I don’t mean the medical procedures, which are fully depicted and not for the faint of heart. My beef is that they covered 15 hours, and not once did it depict two drunk Steelers fans having to be admitted to the ER for getting each other’s front teeth lodged in their knuckles after arguing (with mild to moderate racism) over whether Mike Tomlin should keep his job. To be fair that teeth in knuckle thing did happen but come on…surely it should have been over the Steelers. Bonus dig for anyone actually from Pittsburgh…the Penguins suck.

Oh yeah, there was a match and some dogs.

Lou City lined up as:

1-Las; 2-McFadden; 4-Totsch; 7-Serrano; 8-Moguel; 15-M. Perez; 16-A. Perez; 17 T. Davila; 25-Jones; 25-Wilson; and 32-Adams (C)

11th Minute

Lou City win a corner after some sloppy back line work from the Riverhounds

15th Minute

It’s a (Bone Dry) yellow card from Adrien Perez. It is unnecessary.

20th Minute

Davila the younger can’t get enough on his goal-bound effort to bother the Pittsburgh keeper (yes, I know his name).

27th Minute

The assistant referee has no idea who touched the ball last, so he awards a goal kick to Pittsburgh. Why do this to yourself? If you have no idea, go with the home side and avoid the boos.

38th Minute

Pittsburgh is keeping the ball in their attacking half for a significant portion of this match.

39th Minute

McFadden goes over the bar on a decent chance while Dick fully extends, just to be sure.

41st Minute

Willson’s long effort is saved.

44th Minute

Totsch makes a goal saving tackle, which probably earned him Player of the Match honors.

Halftime

Lou City 0 - Yinzers 0

“Yinzer” has to be the dumbest slang for the second-person plural in American English. It’s followed fairly closely by “Youse” then “Youse guyz". “Y’all” is the king of second-person plural slang. Accept no substitutes!

There are three changes at halftime, but I am already tired of writing about this match, so look them up “yo-self” if interested.

Minute 46 to 89

A bunch of stuff happened that wasn’t that interesting

90th Minute

Dick goes limp on the ground to waste time.

Full time

Lou City 0 - Heinz 57 (actually nil)

Adams commented that he felt like Pittsburgh outplayed Lou City for about three quarters of the match. It’s hard to disagree. Coach Cruz was again disappointed with the effort. He has also been disappointed recently when Lou City win. I hope they put on a decent effort soon or it could be a long season (according to Danny).

Lou City 0 Riverhounds 0 as Nothing Happened