World breathes sigh of relief, WPS team finally in the Yay

By: Melissa | September 3rd, 2008

How Bay Area have I been this week? Hmm… lessie:

1. Spent Monday in a friend’s backyard eating organic, locally grown food, bought at her Farmer’s Market, and chatting with two lesbians about their recent wedding.

2. Spent part of hangover Tuesday relaxing at Baker Beach with the very picturesque view of Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin hills. Topped it off with Chinese food in the Richmond.

3. Spent the majority of my day today at an Amazon Web Services event listening to various startups give talks about their new Cloud Computing businesses (it’s the new techie buzzword people and all sarcasm aside, on a professional level I’m actually really excited about it).

And now there will be a for realsies Bay Area WPS team in 2009. The announcement was made, I think, today.

Led by Brian and Nancy NeSmith, the Bay Area ownership group joins investors in Boston, Chicago, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis, Washington, D.C. and L.A. as teams planned for the League’s 2009 season, thereby giving the League a national footprint of three East Coast, two Midwest and two West Coast franchises. WPS will expand to Atlanta and Philadelphia in 2010 and continues to explore additional potential franchises for 2010 and beyond. The WPS team planned for Dallas is now slated to begin play in 2010 as the League continues to work on securing a facility, with the intention that the Team will start play in the League’s second season.

So big shout out to the NeSmith family and all the money from Blue Coat Systems (my employers don’t use your products by the way) to make this all possible. Now I’ll be very impatiently waiting for a name, a logo, a location, and a coach (*cough*Chastain*cough*).

Bummer about Dallas but their stadium issues should be sorted by 2010 for sure. Also, I started watching Friday Night Lights and now I’m completely addicted. Such a great show!

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