Anyone know how many people those blimps can hold? Get a fleet of them and float them over Buck Shaw -- might be able to add another 1000 fans or so.
We got a Zeppelin... It's Silicon Valley, the home of innovation. Build a stadium overnight at Moffett Field.
Check your tongue-in-cheek-o'meter, a68, I was being only half-serious with this. :--) Edit: Whoa, so it's not just a68. There are a lot of tongue-in-cheek-o'meter's that need batteries around here :--). The "snack shack" reference wasn't enough to give it away?
Indeed. Plus it's the internet. Nothing is funny or tongue and cheek on the web... unless it's the Onion.
How about making the final an indoor game at HP Pavilion? There are plenty of open dates available and it would hold about 17,000 for soccer. Garber can have his luxury boxes and special effects, and the downtown businesses would appreciate the extra $$$.
Keep those ideas coming! My latest was Shoreline. Holds 22,500, plenty of parking (unlike PAL, which otherwise would be a charming locale). Put some turf on stage and you're good to go!
Frogs season ticket holder in 2006! Every seat in the house was a good one, but a different experience from 2005, that's for sure.
Just to clarify because it seems like some people are confused: The Quakes are not guaranteed to host the MLS Cup final just because they won the Supporter's Shield, they have to get there first. The league's website has worded this fact in their stories incredibly poorly. Whomever has the better record between the two finalists will host, just like in baseball, basketball, or hockey. While the final, if the Quakes are in it, would not be at Buck Shaw, they aren't really breaking too much of the rule by having it at another Quakes friendly venue.
No one is confused. We're all working on the assumption the Quakes will get to the Cup. Plus it's not like they can wait until November 17th to start looking for sites after we've been guaranteed a trip to the cup. They've been looking for a while.
Fair enough. It just looked like some were calling for the league's head for violating their own rules and preventing SJ from hosting the final. Misunderstanding on my part, I didn't read into the assumption of the Quakes being there. To the topic at hand, Stanford wouldn't be that bad (other than the nightmare that is parking and getting out) an option, assuming its available. I would almost rather see the game at O.Co or AT&T over Spartan, despite its proximity to me and the Quakes in general because of the turf.
It was more the "charming locale" comment, since it isn't a neighborhood I would willingly walk through.
The neighborhood, maybe, but hard to beat the experience of sitting underneath the confluence of multiple freeways. The excitement begins before you step out of your car!
I've walked around the neighborhood several times before matches at PAL and several times afterwards to return to my car parked on the street outside the parking lot (either the lot was full or parking in it wasn't free.) I never felt uncomfortable. The negative reputation of low income neighborhoods is often disproportionate to reality.
I cannot speak for others, but my concern about the league's disregard for its own rules stems more from my being a lawyer and an American than it does from being a Quakes fan with a particular self-interest at stake. The "rule of law" is an important concept which should be respected on its own terms, not merely because it might confer an advantage in a given case. In my view, MLS ought to have as few rules as possible (and none against profanity or "offensive" tifo by supporters), but those rules MLS does justly have the league should adhere to in an even-handed fashion.
We should absolutely hold the Cup Final at Buck Shaw, and for halftime entertainment, we can burn Gerber at the stake! Even if we can only squeeze another few hundred seats into it (and I think we can mange two to three thousand more), it's OUR home, so let's do it!! Sure, we'd have to add a bunch more porta potties, and some more food carts, but we have media facilities now, so we're good to go!! GO QUAKES!!! - Mark (This post is a joke. It is intended to be seen as humor only. So don't get uptight.)
Anybody else find it incredibly insulting that the same piece of dung who said "okey dokey" to the under-handed, ill-conceived, and downright dishonest removal of our original team by he-who-must-not-be-named is now telling US that WE can't have the final in OUR stadium? There really is no end to the sheer chutzpah exhibited by his a$$holiness, the commissioner. Now that the reign of AEG is finally drawing to a close, I truly hope that Lew and the rest of the owners toss this clown out on his butt. Or, perhaps he should simply be banished to LA where he and his lackeys can engage in an orgy of self-congratulation...