Recently, UPH found ourselves at a Houston Dynamo game.  (They lost to the Revolution 1-0, but that’s neither here nor there for today’s purposes.)  The Dynamo, for those who like UPH have only recently figured out what the soccer fuss is about, is one of the few teams in the MLS that is consistently pretty good and financially viable.  They’ve won a championship or two in their relatively few years of existence, and the team as a business enterprise is doing fine: money’s being made.

The fan presence at these games, which are played at the University of Houston’s Robertson Stadium, is stellar.  The large Hispanic community in Houston has really embraced the team, they may get their own stadium,  and two competing, independently-organized fan sections (El Battalon and the Texian Army–click for MP3s!) bring instruments, wave flags,sing, throw confetti and crepe paper when the team scores, and are generally pretty fantastic.  UPH was inspired!

Upon being inspired, UPH, as we often do, decided to purchase some team apparel (in a color, clearly, other than pink.)  Now, UPH, being female, is not shaped such that unisex t-shirts, even ones with the adorable Bobby Boswell’s name on them, fit us.  In fact, they make UPH look like a blob, at best.  Imagine our surprise, then, when we found that of the literally fifty or so apparel options, not a single shirt or jersey available was cut for women.

Oh, yes, they had pink and light blue shirts…cut unisex.  Perusal of the team website reveals one single option, which all but eschews the Dynamo logo, instead featuring a girly flower design. Incredulous, we scoured the internet and local shops. Nope. Nothing.

Hey, Dynamo, you have a lot of female fans. Fans who want to show their support. Fans who will give you their money to wear something flattering.  You just lost UPH’s $30.  How many of the women currently squeezing themselves into size-XS unisex shirts in a futile effort to get some shape would upgrade to a nice women’s cut tee? I’m betting there’s lots out there.

Get on it, please, or we’re going to be forced to put together our own orange outfit*.

*Man. now we kind of want those shoes…