At the end of the 2014, I had the grand Idea to start a zine about the Portland Timbers. It stemmed from having a long history in zine making and having a lot of energy leftover after the Timbers (just barely) failed to make the playoffs despite a really strong finish to the season. Like so many other grand ideas, this one never got off the ground. Then someone on Facebook mentioned the need for a database to document various supporter’s scarves, and I thought why not. But where to host it? That was as good of an excuse as any to register the domain name. Sometimes a good idea just need little push. I’m going to use this space to publish Timber’s related posts, but don’t look to me for detailed analysis of gameplay. I still can’t tell what formation we’re fielding by looking at the game play, and I didn’t even become interested in Soccer until going to my first Timbers match, which was a reserve team game in 2012.
When that scarf archive goes live, I’ll post a link. Disclosure: I’m backdating this post.
2025 Update: That scarf archive and database did go live, but I had naught to do with it. Scarfage was really active for a while and was the inspiration for myself to build PatchPatrol.com, but then the community became sort of inactive and hosting became expensive. Eventually it ceased to exist, but I think someone might have a backup, but I can’t confirm.