How does the day look for everyone? Lots of meetings? Tip-tapping away at emails? Explaining to your co-workers why it seems like the entire city is talking about today’s match? Skyline for lunch? It’s 513 day, after all
Lock in, crank out those spreadsheets, then unwind by heading to the teek for happy hour. Match kicks off at 7:30! COY FCC!
And this Song of the Vine,
This greeting of mine,
The winds and the birds shall deliver
To the Queen of the West,
In her garlands dressed,
On the banks of the Beautiful River.
HW Longfellow, from the poem “Catawba Vine”, which popularized the nickname the Queen City in reference to Cincinnati
But Queen City this Queen City that, what about Charlotte’s *other* nicknames? To Wikipedia!
Oh, hmmm. Seems like it’s that or “The hornets nest” for them. Not a great selection
What about their motto? Surely they’ve got something awesome to rival our *Juncta Juvant*? Right?
“Charlotte’s got a lot”
Eeeesh. Real inspirational motto
Anyways, there’s a soccer game. Whether you buy into it as the Queen City derby or not (for me the Queen City derby is with the Independence), we’ve got to play in their stupid NFL stadium tonight. Last time we won this matchup was 2023, and we’ve never won there. Seems to me like we’re due. They’re on 4 straight losses, we’re on the rise.
Let’s go out and show em that the real Queen City is about more than just being named after a dead Hapsburg!