Totally agree. We are the worlds famous Minnesota 1st Volunteers. I'd rather be independent. I'll stand with Sam's Army or the American Outlaws but I don't really want to be either of them.

If you guys want a membership card and a bandana just send $40 to either myself or Seamonster and we will send one out. We are currently working on some deals through local sponsors, including a bar with 2-4-1s.

Well one of the perks to joining the American Outlaws is you get a discount on your tickets to USMNT games.

Yah, thats the only reason I am in either group. I am totally fine with not having an official chapter of either group, but if we have the members to form one, it doesn't really hurt anything either.

Dude! I'm not looking for a bandana that says Gainesville Rocks on one side and Roller Girls on the other. Come to think of it, I don't really need a bandana from American Outlaws either. In fact I just don't need a bandana.

LS how close are we to being an official chapter of the Outlaws

We should be able to get the same ticket discounts as AO, but it would require some sort of organization. You can't just go to US Soccer and say, "we're a bunch of badasses, and we want some discounts." But if we had a more official sort of organization, we should be able to get the same deal that AO and SA get.

Last time I bought through SA, you could buy as many tickets as you wanted with one membership. So as long as we have 1 member, we can get the same discount I think.

I have a list of 15 members that the AO sent me a week or two ago ... 25 paying members are needed to become an official chapter.

For full disclosure, I AM NOT A MEMBER. However, I want to cultivate as many USMNT supporters in the MSP area as possible.

Whether you want to be an AO, SA or USSSSC member or none of the above, we should all be under the umbrella of the 1st Minnesota Volunteers.

Luckily, we have a great place to watch the games without being shunned by other Euro supporters, and we all get along together (for the most part). This is much better than the situation in many other cities where the supporters are split into feuding factions.

PEACE AND FUTBOL

Wow, I always just assumed there must be 25 AO members somewhere in the Twin Cities. If we only have 15 there is no point in forming a chapter assuming we can get ticket deals somehow. I plan to remain a AO member just because I go to some games that the group doesn't, so I need my own access to deals. I like the independent First MN Volunteers. I wore my 1st MN shirt to the State Fair today, which means our group was better represented than the Stars at the Fair.