They also had Chad Ochocinco try out for them once. I can’t believe I forgot to include that!

The Wizard's identity was based on the Wizard of Oz. And fun fact, a lot of SKC fans still lovingly refer to our boys in sky blue as the Wizards. We even have a tradition where before each home match we sign "When The Saints Go Marching In" but we replace the word "Saints" with "Wiz"

Where the Kansas City wizards named after the wizard of oz because that movie took place in Kansas for about 5 minutes

As a kc fan this was a great video to watch. Overall I think that children’s mercy park is still the best stadium in mls. Yes some new stadiums have massive supporters stands, like lafc and Atlanta, but sporting was really the original stadium with a supporters stand.

Your content is so good that you've made an RSL fan somehow sit through a Kansas video

Make a video about the Puerto Rico Islanders, a USL team that was better than most MLS teams, reaching tue semifinals of the Concacaf Champions League in 08-09 and eliminating Toronto FC and LA Galaxy in the next seasons.

Man it’s crazy from seeing them empty seats to now full. Coming from Nebraska and the Midwest I support Kansas City Sporting and us folks in the Midwest love to support our teams even we lose

It’s tough to nail a rebrand, but Kansas City did a great job. I remember watching a full MLS game on TV for the first time back in 2011 when Sporting KC was playing RSL. I spent the first half trying to figure out what cities RSL and SKC represented, LOL. I thought SKC was Saskatchewan at first. 😂

Hey Danny , big fan of yours . I am a Liga Mx fan but always keep up with MLS. I loved your concacaf champions league documentaries and hope you do more concacaf champions league content in the future.

Danny! You should really do a rewind of when the Wizards beat Manchester United!

I like the new intro and love the channel! Constructive criticism: frame your shirts and hang them on the wall behind you and your set will look considerably better 👍

Hey Danny! KC Season Ticket Holder here (apart of that beautiful Blue Hell baby!!!). Have to say, that was awesome! I've been a fan since the Wiz (I was only in sixth grade at the time and didn't really follow all the games until I got older). Arrowhead is a great stadium, it's just not for soccer. Community America is now on default with a loan and might not be around much longer (if they can't agree on money). Children's Mercy Park (formerly known as Livestrong Park) is wonderful! I would love to have you join us (whenever this damn virus moves on). Much love Danny! Keep up the great work! Hope to see you at a game!

I visited their stadium back in 2014 when they played my team Cruz Azul in Concacaf Champions League. The atmosphere was amazing felt like I was in a game in the EPL. Great content man👍🏼 I binged watched all your videos during quarantine 😬

I finally found an MLS focused KZfaq channel! Great video!

With Major League Rugby’s current success I’d find it interesting if SKC decide to apply for an expansion team. Just something they could or should think about.

greetings from a SKC Supporter from germany! :D

Thanks for the great MLS content hope to see the channel blow up as our league grows!

Hey Danny, love the hell out of your content. Do a video on the history of soccer specific stadiums!

Video idea: finishing the MLS season in FIFA 20 Please try this I really want to see it

I remember going to arrowhead and t bone stadium to see the wizards play ever week.

As a LA Galaxy fan I always though Kansas City Wizards had the coolest name in the league.

Stumbled across this and was happy. Great video man

Awesome video, would love to see more vids like this talking about other MLS teams and USL maybe too

I love your channel so much! Keep your content coming!

The Wiz was the "modernized" movie version of The Wizard of Oz released in 1978 starring Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and Richard Pryor. So when bunch of designers, many of whom had probably never been to Kansas, but who watched the Wiz as teenagers a decade and a half before MLS launched, get to design the team for state they've never been to, this is what happens. Well it was either that or: "We're not in Kansas anymore FC"

Great video! The badge is based off the state line with the dark blue and light blue stripes representing a team based style for 11 players instead of one big star player. They were going to make it off a fountain since KC is the city of fountains but our kit design team said in a interview they couldn't get it to work in a badge so they went with the state line. Which is a big thing in kc with KCK and KCMO. And many dont know the badge includes the kansas missouri state border going back to the civil war jayhawks and the KU MU rivalry. Also we are the third most succesful mls team with the 3rd most trophies in MLS history besides DC united and La Galaxy. And wizards name celebrated based of Wizards of OZ and thats what the cauldron supporters section is based off of with the blue hell to this day.,

You are one of my favorite youtubers and your documentary are amazing

Another odd bit of Wizards history, or at least it was an "Urban Legend" back in the day. Their mascot, "Chopper The Dragon" was also a full time Kansas City, Missouri Police Officer. I remember going to the games back in the day (1998 to 2001). Even with 15,000 fans in Arrowhead it still just looked like some of the friends and family of the team showed up. I believe I remember one game with over 20,000 fans (on the lower level only), during the 2000 season, and it just seemed crazy in comparison to most of the games.

Danny, another awesome video! I love learning about the backstory of MLS teams like this and your format is very entertaining. As for what I would like to see you do a video on how bonkers MLS roster rules are, including GAM/TAM/DPs/Gen Adidas/INT slots/Senior slots/etc and maybe sprinkle in some new CBA stuff 🤷 Keep up the great videos man!

14:46 I also had a reason in addition to for their fans' sake to support #savetheCrew. When all this expansion is done and Nashville switches conferences (from their wonky current alignment in the West despite being southeast of Chicago), that will *double* the number of Eastern Conference teams outside of the Eastern Seaboard since the league announced intentions to expand to 28 teams. From 2 to 4. I figured the conference needed more teams in that area, not fewer. Also, nice new intro.

Literally any team do this again I love when u makes these

I remember going down to Kansas city that weekend for my mom's work (she owns the H&R block in my city). My family got to Kansas City on a Sunday when NASCAR was in town. We decided to eat at Applebee's right by the stadium. We see this stadium that has banner's everywhere promoting their first game (June 9th vs the Chicago Fire). Me as a 10-year-old who doesn't even know the team name wanted to go to the game. My parents got tickets (for me and my dad) at the hotel. What we did not know it was the opening night of the stadium. I guess I have a good reason to support Sporting Kansas City. The only thing I remember from that game was a drunk fan dressed up in a cow costume decided to jump onto the field. If I remember he also scored a goal for Chicago.

One thing I'd love to see is the MLS experiment with if FIFA allow it is more substitutes to be allowed. IMO it would turn the game from a marathon into a sprint. Or more accurately a relay, but you get the point.

Great vídeo. Thanks!

Great video!

The only thing that sucks about the rebrand is that you have a team that should be on the Missouri side of KC on the kansas side. Might just be the petty Mizzou fan in me.

NICE VIDEO THANK YOU

DannyT is going to get me into MLS I can feel it

Thank you for doing this video on my club.

Hey Danny love the content I was wondering if you could do a video on how the old earthquakes left to Houston to become the Houston dynamo

Great video! Sporting Kansas City is one of the most consistent MLS franchises of the past decade. Make a video about the top five Americans who have never played a World Cup. My list Ante Razov Jason Kreis Sacha Kljestan Chris Armas Joe Cannon

I remember being in 7th grade when they announced the rebrand, and I remember that nearly everyone I knew (all of us 7th graders) hated it at first. "What's a Sporting" was extremely common. We loved our Americanized "Wizards" (which, whether MLS would like to admit it or not, was due to Kansas being featured in Wizard of Oz - even though the team played in Missouri until they moved to the ballpark). With that being said, we all came around eventually, and soon Sporting KC is nearly among the ranks of the Chiefs and the Royals. There's no one in the KC area that doesn't know who SKC is, but I would argue that tons of people in other cities don't know they have an MLS team.

The first MLS game I ever attended was the Wizards vs. Galaxy at the Rose Bowl in a 0-0 tie.

Hey danny, in your Austin fc video, you talked about making a saved the crew video and i would still like to see a video like that

Hey some of my best memories were sitting on that grass... it was janky and I loved it...

Can you please do a video on Toronto fc and how Sebastian giovinco and tim bas( he is the GM at Columbus crew now. Really long last name) transformed Toronto fc

Ranking of MLS match balls!

Can you please either do a ranking or some sort of breakdown of all if the stadiums.

You can not tell me MLS did not pick wizards because of wizard of oz with its iconic “you’re not in Kansas anymore”. Like if Houston would of been part of the original MLS I could see the league naming the team the “Houston problems”

Good content as usual, I live in the Uk and I’d have to argue the Wizards name had more possibilities Internationally and domestic than the sporting branding it was just mishandled and you’re spot on to be called sporting you normally have multiple sports teams as an organisation, tacking it on just seems forced which is what puts some overseas fans off about the MLS alongside a few other things.

Hey man love the channel and the deep dives you do. Wondering what your thoughts are about proreg, the number of us soccer organizations like MLS USL NISA NPSL, and MLS wanting to keep a lot of USMNT stars in the league instead of persuading them to go to Europe. Thanks! Keep up the good work

I would love to see a video of DC United: first dynasty history, current state and potential future, please 😊

Early gang Ps. Nice new Intro

5:00 That Soccer Ball And The Coloured Stripes On The Wizards Logo Looks Like Sonic The Hedgehog

great content, go fire

1:11 I want to see a video on Pro Rel like you did with the 30 team schedule

Rebranding to “Sporting” was the best move they ever made.

Lowkey the MLS shootout was way better than PKs

So the state of Kansas has the recession to thank for giving SKC the honor of the only major professional team in the state!

I'm from Lithuania, and the first thing I imagine when hear about Kansas - is obviously Wizard of Oz :) so I think the old name of the club was reasonable

I'd love to see them use some of those old designs as alternates for more than just one match.

Talk about the Houston Dynamo and their relocation

New intro nice

I like your new logo

You got remember. Around the time MLS started, that time in the 90s was all about being “EXTREME” and clothing, tv shows, food and even sports were all about capitalizing on that.

I remember watching that 2004 Western Conference Final game live on TV. So glad KC moved on from the cringeworthy Wizards brand to Sporting KC.

The ending, mentioning thats the correct way to rebrand (which it is) Chicago could take a few pointers and rebrand a bit differently then how they did

can you do a video on the hudson river derby

1.) I like the old MLS colour scheme. Its different to what we see with other major sporting leagues in the US, in a sense that it doesn't use the red/white/blue colour scheme. 2.) "Kansas City Wiz". Ha! Were they taking the piss?! 3.) Kansas City should drop the "Sporting", and replace the word with "SC" (Soccer Club) 4.)Winning the MLS Cup and the Supporters' Shield should not constitute as a "double"... 5.) Teams should do throwback kits like LA Galaxy did in 2014.

Do a vid on the sounders!

Plz do what the hell happened to Orlando city. I am a City fan ever since their first season in MLS

Can u do a video on the Dynamos fall from glory :( from a Dynamo fan

You should make a vid explaining rivals

DannyTRadio had a rebrand as well

Best rebrand in American sports

Please make a San Jose quakes video :)

A video on the relationship between mls and nwsl

When the rebrand to Sporting happened, half of the people hated it. I liked it because it rolled off the tongue, and it still works.

Do a brief history of the Legendary LA Galaxy

I like the rebrand

Do a video on the rapids please🙏🙏🙏

Make a vid about the timbers history

Hopefully teams like the Revs follow their footsteps

As an FC Bayern fan: What do you think about Alphonso Davies?

Do an Atlanta United success story video

Do the story of Atlanta united

Do a video on the union

MLS 2 Indianapolis!!! One can only dream😔

Can you please do a video on Charlotte's expansion team?

That'd be a dangerously huge crowd in modern times #ImJustSayin #Rosemont

Opinion on what essentially is their reserve/development team in USL Championship doing their own rebrand from "Swope Park Rangers" to "Sporting Kansas City II"?

What about Real Salt Lake? That team name is inaccurate; great video though!!

Can you do Chicago fire

The new Logo isn’t bad.

Maybe try to make a video on some failed USL franchises because there have been quite a few failures in that league and I (and maybe other people) might find that interesting.

La Galaxy or DC United or Columbus Crew video next please

Im glad that the Seattle Sounders were not a charter member when the League began. I probably woukd have lost interest, because MLS didnt go by FIFA rules.

Sorry for bad English What city do you want in the MLS other than city that already has MLS team including city that coming to MLS like Austin , Sacramento , San Louis and Charlotte

In my opinion, the sporting K.C badge is the best looking in the MLS.

Was there no way they coudlve added the little 🧙‍♂️ somehow onto the logo even with the sporting name?