Timbers vs Earthquakes: It's been nearly 50 years for both of these teams...
...and to celebrate, we'll try something new to us.
We’re here, and we’re going to live tweet/X this game. If you have Twitter/X, follow us at @greenitcolor. We’ll see what we can do in a thread there as we cover this game and some games of the past from this rivalry.
Worst-case scenario, you find out who our next podcast interview will be AND you’ll see a bengal tiger interfering with the 1975 Timbers warmups.
If you don’t have that app, no problem: we’ll update this story here with all of those.
20’ | 0 - 0
The first time these teams met, on June 14, 1975, San Jose came away with a 2-1 win at home. The Timbers came away alive, which wasn’t a bad goal.
29’ | 0 - 0
The second time they met, June 28, 1975, the Timbers came away with the 2-1 win, after having played an overtime match the night before in LA. 19-year-old Chris Dangerfield with his first Timbers’ goal for the winner. (More on this later.)
34’ | 0 - 0
This match is scoreless, but in this minute in the 2016 Open Cup, Dairon Asprilla opened the scoring in what would become a 2-0 Timbers win.
Cristhian Paredes at the half! | 1 - 0
While you’re waiting for the second half, you can catch a little of this interview with Timbers and Earthquakes legend: Chris Dangerfield:
49’ | 1 - 0
We’re back. The referee is checking VAR…no penalty.
If you listened to any of that Chris Dangerfield interview (or even Episode 1 with Timbers legend Mick Hoban) you may have heard about how scrappy those first two 1975 matches were.
You may have also heard about the bengal tiger Krazy George brought onto the field on June 28, 1975! It’s true! (Timbers in white; video courtesy of San Jose Earthquakes)
58’ | 2 - 0
Tiger videos bring luck! Evander strikes.
60’ | 2 - 1
Tweets about tiger videos bringing luck do not bring luck. Goal for San Jose. Matthew Hoppe gets one back for the guests.
64’ | 2 - 1
Three subs by the Timbers. For the ins and outs of those and other things happening follow the hard-working
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66’ | Same score
But there’s more to that Krazy George story. I ran into Canadian International Brian Gant, who played for the Whitecaps and Timbers, and he remembers playing San Jose and warming up avoiding Krazy George who once had an elephant on the field and another time was riding a horse-drawn chariot!
80’ | Same score
But every home game at this time, this comes from the Timbers Army.:
80’ | Part 2
Why “You Are My Sunshine” in the 80th? It has everything to do with all of us here, with Pele, with love for this team, this city, and fellow humans—and this man, who I’m honored to say will be next Tuesday’s guest on the Green Is the Color podcast.
89’ | 2 - 1
And back to Brian Gant—he’ll also be in a future episode of the podcast. He told me a great story about a young Clyde Best knocking on the door of Clive Charles’ family’s house in London when they were youth at West Ham. [Extended from the tweet.] Clyde was recruited from Bermuda at the age of 17. He showed up to the airport in London only to find West Ham not there. (The Hammers had the wrong date.) Clyde asked around and someone sent him to an address in East London because it was the house of a young Hammers’ footballer. Clyde finds his way to the house, knocks on the door, and Clive Charles’ mother answers. Best lived with the Charles (and Clive’s older brother, John, was also a ground-breaking Hammer and Black player).
Both Clive and Clyde played here for the NASL Timbers, but it was 1972 when Best, Charles, and Ade Coker made history with West Ham.
I also mention Clyde Best because he’ll be at this Saturday’s home match against Colorado!
Final | 2 - 1
Time for the long-standing traditions of goal scorers getting log slices (1978) and taking a lap of honor (1975).
That’s it from this evening with a great 3 points! Relive the evening here: