The many states of USA CUP

By Jordan Osterman

With teams coming from all around the United States, the parking lots at the National Sports Center fill with all kinds of vehicles. The license plates on those vehicles tell the story of the great distances this tournament covers. Below is a sampling of some of the many license plates present at USA CUP.

Bring a map. This place is big.

 Schwan's ice cream + desert = vanilla puddles.

 I wish they all could be California girls.
 Elevation anyone?

Keeping up vitamin C levels shouldn't be a problem here.

 Luckily for opponents executive orders don't affect USA CUP game outcomes.

  I wonder what it would cost to get Gene Hackman here for eight days?

 You would be surprised how well a plowed corn field doubles as a soccer pitch.

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

 How do you say, "I was fouled" in French?

 Cheers Jimmy.

 Don't say anything about the Buckeyes.

 Home, sweet home.

Thomas Jefferson's first words after having Missouri's capital named after him would surely have been: "Go forth. Play soccer."

 You know you're bored when your university's mascot is named after a pre-meal chore.

 As long as you don't wear a Yankees hat while you're on the soccer pitch, it's cool with me.

 Won't you be? Won't you be? Won't you be my neighbor?

 Don't say anything about the Wolverines.

It's a great musical, but please no singing on the field.

 Easiest directions ever. Go north, you'll hit it.

 Pacific Northwest is just a cool name for a region.

 I wonder if North Dakota called top bunk, or if South Dakota called bottom bunk?

 Have horns, will travel.

What's there to say? If you're there keep going, you're almost to Minnesota.