'Let's make some history together': Why I'm glad I joined a bunch of Austin FC fans to freeze with Brandon Vazquez on Monday evening

It's the first major cold front this winter, so of course fans hung outside the Fairmont Hotel to say hello to Austin FC's newest designated player.

He danced awkwardly to songs played by La Murga de Austin members. He held Pollo, the famed Austin FC rubber chicken mascot, without quite knowing why he was holding a rubber chicken let alone how his new club acquired one as an unofficial mascot. He signed whatever was put in front of him by fans, including a baby. (Well, a baby wearing a baby-sized Au…