Franchises
Charlotte FC’s voice of the people
On a cloudy February afternoon, Shawn McIntosh slipped away from work long enough to get lunch at Tupelo Honey, a trendy Southern cuisine-style restaurant in uptown Charlotte. As one of the newest members of the front office of Charlotte FC, the MLS expansion team whose Feb. 26 debut was less than three weeks away, it wasn’t a surprise that McIntosh didn’t get very far into his Southern chicken BLT before his phone started buzzing with messages from his bosses. These were not the people he answers to back at the team’s offices, however. These were from the other constituency McIntosh reports to — the ones who paint their faces, adorn themselves in various combinations of the club’s blue, white, silver and black apparel, and stand at the corner of West Morehead Street and McNinch Street three hours before kickoff preparing for a March to the Match.
