Evan Floyd: I'm a transplant to Louisville and when I moved here about seven years ago, none of my particular sporting interests were being served by the town. And when I heard rumors that there was a possibility of bringing a [soccer] team to town, I sort of shrugged it off honestly. So, I was not a Cooper at the time and until they announced that the team was coming, I didn’t take it seriously frankly. There is a group of 15 to 20 Coopers who are still very active with the Coopers that really helped drive bringing the team here. Obviously, the business interests of it all were paramount for the owners and for the location and for the groups, but the Coopers did a lot in terms of trying to encourage the potential ownership groups that this would be a valuable place for them to have a team and they take a lot of pride in that.

When they announced that the team was coming, my wife bought me and her the 36th and 37th season tickets that had ever been sold for Louisville City FC and we showed up for that first game, had a blast. Because I didn’t know any of the Coopers, we just sort of sat in our actual seats that we had purchased, and it turned out that we were near another vocal group of fans that weren’t Coopers and we took to the patio deck that first season. We sat there all year and really enjoyed ourselves. They started selling those seats the following year as a corporate package and we thought, ‘shoot, we’re better fans to have behind the opposing goal than they are’ and we banded together and petitioned the front office about how we could get those spots because it’s important to have a rowdy bunch of loyal supporters there. And Michael Bromilow, who is the founder of Scouse’s House, really took the reins and found out how many season ticket holders we would need to provide, what kind of charter we would have to have, the offices and the charitable outreach that we would have to have and really implemented it all with the help of about five or six of us that worked tirelessly on it.

When we had our first elections, I took on the role as town crier or public relations person for Scouse’s House, started the podcast last year, had starting working on the blog and the website and drumming extra memberships the year before. And we just had a really nice time with it. It grew and grew and that gave me more and more access to the people who were making decisions and I realized that I wouldn’t be horribly out of place if they brought me on and that I had some ideas of things that they could be doing. The joke I make about it is that [Louisville City FC President] Brad Estes finally got tired of me saying ‘Hey, why aren’t you doing this?’ and finally said ‘Fine, come do it yourself’ and that’s how I ended up here. I petitioned them for a long time about letting me come on. I understood it’s probably not going to be the same level of position that I had previously held, but it would be a happier work environment for me every day and I’ve been right about that.