When Stumptown Footy Managing Editor Zach Kay asked if anyone wanted to review a Timbers-themed bobblehead—in other words, if someone wanted to bring a weird-looking plastic doll into their home and examine it in detail—my answer was immediate:
Of course I do.
Let’s go over the basics. This is a sample in an upcoming line of retro-themed MLS bobbleheads made for the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame, a bobblehead purveyor and yet-to-open museum. There’s one for each MLS team and rather than modeling them after specific players, they’ve gone with a generic vintage look that harkens back to the days when men were men, the Cold War was raging, and soccer was still a fringe sport in the States.