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UPSF, I'm taking your tack on this. Considering what day it is, I'll take it with a grain of salt. Of course, who would make up a joke like that, especially naming Enyeart and Smith?

Then again, there were some rumblings about a big player coming in before today.

Still... I can't even begin to say how incredibly, amazingly, wonderfully HUGE that would be. Oh my gosh... I can't even imagine it!!!!!!!

Hmmmmm......... look at the page closely. I'm saying this is a terrific (and cruel) April Fool's Joke.

http://sambafutebol.blogspot.com/



Nice one!

What did I miss on the page?

Nevermind... got it

Not sure what you are seeing. . . would somebody be willing to point it out to those of us who are less observant?

-SciFi

Okay, okay, okay.. the jig is up. I will only admit to ASSISTING in this April Fool's Day charade. I did not build the site, and it wasn't even my idea to perpetrate this prank. I merely facilitated the excitement around here by baiting a few hooks with some big, fat, juicy worms over the past few days and then posting the link today. I can't tell you whose idea this was, but I thought it was pretty hilarious and agreed to play along. So, no, Marta will not be donning a purple jersey this fall, or any other fall for that matter! (Unless of course, the team she lands on in the new women's league has purple as one of its' primary colors)

And no, I have no ideas on other big-name recruits for Portland. You guys have ALL the info on that already.

On the right side, by the picture it says Tomás Tolós de Abrîl which I have no idea what it means, but when you punch it into google the first webpage that comes back is the wikipedia tag for april fools day.

EVIL.... all I can say

It's not really an April Fool's joke if you're doing stuff BEFORE April 1st, though. That's called cheating. I declare shenanigans!

Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little set-up. The actual joke didn't take place until today.

Still cheating!

And still no press release about the actual recruits!

So. Double offensive.

I suspect that we'll get the official press release right about the time we get a new Guns N Roses album.

Pranks are for children. That SUCKED!!!

I can take a joke just fine.

This wasn't just an April Fools joke. It was an elaborate scheme. A lot of people genuinely love this team and the whole thing seemed very real. You made a lot of people pissed off today. I hope it was worth it. Ha Ha Ha

OK, I'll take the heat.

There were plenty of clues, though.

First, the name, which does translate as "April fools"

Any good Pilot fan would recognize the author's picture as Angela Harrison's.

And the story line? C'mon!

Oh yeah--favorite book, The Black Hammers.

Maybe there needs to be a little more rigor in the recruiting hunt. This isn't the only unsubstantiated rumor in the recruiting hunt-- Courtney verloo - Tereza Noyola, to name a couple.

On the other hand, you have to admit the Samba music was great. the song is all about a soccerr fan watching his favorite team play pretty soccer 'my pretty team of fut-e-bol'. What could be greater than that? I think it shoud be the warmup music for the games.

Still It sure would be nice to have Marta on Merlo field....

To be fair, I don't think many got as far as the author's picture. I know I didn't scroll all the way down initially.

In a way, I think we can take a positive away from this. I mean, no other team has this kind of interest or anticipation tied up with potential players. (Then again, no other team waits until August to ANNOUNCE them, either) I think it's a GOOD THING that Pilot fans care this much about their team.

It's also a good thing that this was pulled on April 1st, otherwise I think you'd get a lot more people reacting like our friend FANatic.

And the build up is still cheating. Monsters.