American Outlaws Hartford Chapter – Interview

American Outlaws Hartford Chapter Interview

The transcript of our interview with AO Hartford Chapter Treasurer Andy Leary. See the full post here.

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Describe the American Outlaws in 3 sentences.

AL: The American Outlaws [is the] unofficial supporters group of the US National Team, both Men and Women. It’s the part that’s trying to bring the atmosphere to the games and to the next level. It’s similar to Continue reading

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“Come to an event”.

To cynical and subtle Europeans, nothing is a bigger cringe than American Sports culture. Cheerleaders, half-time shows, a sponsor for absolutely everything. And rows upon rows of adults festooned with a garish and nauseating array of stars and stripes. Flags, face paint, costumes…. the whole culture is so far from European Football tradition, it is easy to convince yourselves that Americans would never be able to “do” Football fanatic properly.

But Andy Leary is prepared with apt retort. “That’s the response. Come to an event and tell me about that after”.

This is the National Team fan group you really should know about.

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