Archive - Green Is the Color

Wherein The Quest Ends

The search for the first Portland Timbers mascot concludes

Jun 13

Episode 55: Dennis O'Meara

This 2010 interview features one of the first NASL Timbers employees, who helped name the team and also led University of Portland Soccer to become an…

Jun 10

1:17:40

Podcast Episode 54: Jim Taylor

This episode features the Portland Timbers General Manager from when professional soccer returned to Soccer City, USA in 2001: Jim Taylor

Jun 3

1:33:26

May 2025

The Greatest Show on (Tartan)Turf

56 years ago today, Civic Stadium hosted the first professional soccer match in Oregon—and first on a new kind of (artificial) surface.

May 25

Unstuck in Time

Put a 50-year-old team in a 112-year-old tournament, and everything old is new again

May 20

Podcast Episode 53: Other Podcasts/Outlets, V. 3

This podcast features a conversation with the hosts of The Timber Review: Adam Susman and Adam Booker

May 16

57:10

April 2025

Podcast Episode 52: Jim Gorsek

This episode features the first homegrown NASL Timber, who went on to win 6 indoor championships before returning home with then-new franchise Portland…

Apr 29

1:25:39

Podcast Episode 51: Steven Lenhart (aka Nevets)

This episode features a Portland native & NASL Timbers fan who followed the club through all iterations since, and was there from Day 1 of what the…

Apr 23

1:18:20

March 2025

Podcast Episode 50: Phil Neville and Santiago Moreno

This episode, recorded live at the Portland adidas Employee Store, features a conversation with Timbers head coach Phil Neville and forward Santiago…

Mar 28

47:18

Announcement: Join Me for the 50th Podcast Episode Live Recording at the adidas Employee Store

Join me, Phil Neville, and Santiago Moreno as we record the 50th podcast episode of Green Is the Color at the adidas Employee Store Thursday March 27…

Mar 19

3:11

Welcome New Podcast Sponsor: Lexus of Portland

Green Is the Color is happy to announce Lexus of Portland as our newest sponsor!

Mar 12

February 2025

Podcast Episode 49: Darren Sawatzky

This episode features one of the first Timbers signed when the club returned in 2001, a former UP Pilot who was taken by New England Revolution in the…

Feb 25

1:38:14

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