On the Allen (TX) City Council agenda for next Tuesday is a line item to approve a lease agreement for the 6,200 seat Allen Event Center for a group called "Dallas Sidekicks, LLC". I've read that lease agreement and it calls for the Dallas Sidekicks to be revived in the PASL for 2012-13. http://allenpublic.novusagenda.com/...gID=369&MinutesMeetingID=-1&fb_source=message
While I would prefer the 'Kicks in an MISL using traditional scoring, the fact is that the financial losses would be too high for a first year team in the MISL, even under the new USL regime. I'm willing to support the 'Kicks as long as they do it right: play in an actual arena (not an ISC), with a professional level of promotion and presentation. The new ownership seems to understand that. I am hopeful that the arena-level PASL-Pro (Cincinatti, Ohio, San Diego, Anaheim, and now Dallas) teams can someday be merged into the MISL. Let's see if this season can make money. I am hopeful they will.
VERY sad. I wish the PASL would make up their mind..............Doesn't make sense to have 1/2 the teams just garbage playing in dumps, 1/4 of the teams playing in decent buildings playing in front of friends and family, a few teams that actually do OK on the field and in the stands, and then you have the Sockers that win every game. At least I will be able to call this squad "pro". Maybe
Better the PASL than no team at all... Maybe in a few years if the MISL builds on what they have and expands west, there's always a chance Dallas could join.
From what I hear, it is the same bunch that folded the Sidekicks years ago. Grand...Tatu in the PASL, so pro...
Interesting to read the lease agreement. OK, so if you draw 0-2000 fans you pay this, if you draw......um.....you can stop right there. Outside of SD and Anaheim NOBODY in the west drew more than 330 folks. How is this supposed to work in a 6K seat building???
Well, for starters, they don't expect the majority of potential fans/followers to research the attendance of other teams before committing to purchase a ticket. (See Milwaukee Wave 1990-95)
I was told a while back that the Sidekicks were a long shot to join the misl its sad we are loosing Former teams to the PASL Pro the I am sure MPS is not helping the Misl
I don't have a clue what the Sidekick brass was thinking, because this ship will sink, but I am sure MPS wasn't one of the turning points.
Allen is to Dallas as Earth is to Mars.......in other words it's a hike, with traffic and a toll road for part of the way depending on your starting point. The Texas Outlaws at least played in the DFW metroplex. This rink is already occupied by the CHL Allen Americans and the aforementioned indoor football team. This is a hike. If they called themselves the Texas Sidekicks or the Allen Sidekicks then fair dinkum. But to call yourself Dallas is going to help nobody. It's way to far for anyone from Dallas to attend and you will offend the locals by using Dallas as the name. I like PASL and their business model do I hope it's a success but...... Well let's leave it at "but"
At least the football team only had 1 home game each of the last 2 seasons that overlapped the PASL season.
That's nothing. Back in the 1990-91 season, the New York Kick played in Albany, which is two hours north of NYC.
Ummm Im not sure if this was joke and if I missed it I apologize but Albany is in New York. They weren't refering to the NYC im assuming. So they were calling themselves by the state name like the Minnesota Wild. If I missed the point, then im sorry but just trying to clarify your point here.
Except that the AISA/NPSL (I can't remember which one they were back then) were trying to get national attention by having a team in "New York". It was a PR trick that nobody fell for.
And video killed the radio star... Seriously, even in Texas, MPS could work... use your fingers, then your toes, then your neighbor's fingers & toes...
NOT TRUE. From Day 1, the New York Kick was accurately described as being based upstate... and if you recall, they split their home schedule between (generally disinterested) ALBANY and (seriously, who thought of this?) GLENS FALLS. It's not as if fans (other than worshippers of Shep Messing) were lined up outside the Coliseum on Long Island waiting for the gates to open...
It should be a great move. Shiny new right-sized arena and ownership whose background is in ticket and sponsorship sales. Plus old faces involved. Venerated name and -- like the Wings -- they have been away long enough for people to miss them.