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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 8h

So is Portland going to do V for Vendetta, but with inflatable frogs instead of Guy Fawkes masks? (complimentary)

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 1d

Scuba dive is my all time fave

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 1d

ROGER LEVESQUE!

@empiregass.bsky.social go ahead and write in pen.

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Southern Sylvs 🍉 she/her @southernsylvs.bsky.social · 2d

Tifo tonight for HHM

A woman's image made as a mosaic with the phrase Nuestras Raices Nuestra Fuerza around her face

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 2d

Can they try Taha there? If it's next to a true six?

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 3d

Klausewitzian principles are in play here.

Portland is unconquerable.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Soccerwise @soccerwisehq.bsky.social · 3d

How we feeling today, Philly fans?

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 4d

There’s just no weak spot on this team, and there definitely were in 2021.

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 4d

The 2022 team was one of the best teams in league history. This is the second best Union team to me. 2020 was just so weird, and a very shortened season.

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Philadelphia Union @philadelphiaunion.com · 4d

PHILADELPHIA UNION 2025 SUPPORTERS' SHIELD WINNERS⚡️🛡️🐍

#DOOP

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Jake Zivin @jakezivin.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to @philadelphiaunion.com for winning the @mls.bsky.social Supporters' Shield. Every other team in the Shield race had a dip at some point over the past couple of months, but the Union never did. Incredible job by Bradley Carnell. #DOOP

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 4d

Hey yall! Do you suffer endlessly because you don’t think the good side ever wins?

Good news, turns out sometimes good things do happen and you can win things! Even when everyone else gives up.

Anyways, LFG @philadelphiaunion.com were the best team in America and sometimes good things happen!

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 4d

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 4d

Yalllllllllllllllllllll

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 4d

No comments until this match is done

John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 4d

Two weeks early in a way. Real smart move

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 5d

It does! I’m scared!!

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!!! I was in the stands in 2022, covered in beer and soda, thinking we’d won already and letting my heart sing.

I’d experienced 28-3, I knew better. But no…

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 5d

They didn’t allow college sports and I don’t think they captured the unique misery of teams that compete and spectacularly fail.

I also believe a pop psychologist would have a lot to say about me deciding this fandom required more of my time and emotional investment.

John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 5d

It’s really f’d up, especially because I made sports my entire life.

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 5d

Anyways, #Doop and #Anchordown tomorrow is my biggest non US Soccer sports day of my life and I’d like for it to not suck

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 5d

I’m a Philadelphia Union, Atlanta Hawks, Vanderbilt basketball and football, and Atlanta Falcons fan (in that order).

The only thing resembling a title I have is the 2020 supporters shield, in a shortened season without fans.

Tomorrow I can celebrate the first unequivocal title of my life.

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 5d

I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.

This was my Faustian bargain. The Union could win the Supporter Shield, but it’s gonna come down to Chris Donovan.

Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 5d

The official injury report is out, and it is long.

Out: Quinn Sullivan (ACL), Jeremy Rafanello (hamstring)

Questionable: Indiana Vassilev (knee), Mikael Uhre (knee)

On New York's side, Matt Freese is not listed after being subbed out with a head injury last weekend.

Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 5d

The Union don't need any extra motivation to win tomorrow and lift the Supporters' Shield at home.

But they have it anyway, as Cavan Sullivan, Nathan Harriel, and Jakob Glesnes told me.

They want to win this for Quinn Sullivan:

www.inquirer.com/soccer/phila... via @phillysport.bsky.social

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 5d

From this week's @kickbacksoccer.bsky.social newsletter (sign up at kickbacksoccer.com) @susannahfuller.bsky.social's Bushwhacker recipe.

As a former student in the great city of Nashville, I must recommend you treat yourself to a Bushwhacker.

Clear your schedule for the next day, though.

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John Parker @johnkickback.bsky.social · 5d

But can you do this after your daughter was kidnapped by a secret cabal of super agents called The Table?

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