In the middle of the Zorn-a-palooza of today's Post sports section was a quarter-page ad from DC United declaring that "It Takes MORE To Be The Head Coach Of D.C. United," along with a picture of Mike Shanahan. Er, I mean, Curt Onalfo.
"It Takes MORE," which also appears next to the United crest at the bottom of the ad and on the banner of United's website, is the team's tagline for the season. (United has helpfully named the filename of the image "tagline.png.")
Putting aside the fact that the tagline smacks of the same sort of meaningless hubris that characterized official and unofficial team pronouncements in 2009 (e.g., "We Win Trophies"), it got me wondering what It Takes MORE of, exactly?
- More second-division rejects?
- More square and back passes?
- More forwards who cannot be bothered to defend?
- More hamstring injuries?
- More . . . well, you get the point.
Onalfo starts with a clean slate, and given the lightening of United's fixture list due to its performance last season, nowhere to take the team but up. Indeed, despite his league experience Onalfo arrives as something as a blank slate, in that he is someone onto which the fans are projecting diverse hopes, but who has yet to telegraph how he intends to steer the ship.
That all changes today.
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