Yankee Stadium for NYCFC

See I have a problem with this statement. NYCFC obviously has made a marketing push to differentiate themselves as a City team. However, the Giants, Jets and Red Bulls all claim to represent the city by the use of the name of the city. They are all called the New York _____. It is incorrect to claim that those teams do not claim to represent the city and more importantly use the city as a marketing tool.

 

NYCFC's total marketing is based on being the team IN NYC, anything short of that would be a unmitigated disaster. I think most people would accept playing a few (3-5) home games outside NYC as long as a permanent stadium solution in had shovels in dirt.

 

Actually the Giants and Jets both started and played significant portions of their history in NYC. They both now play in Meadowlands because they couldn't get a NFL stadium built in the city limits. Giants in 76 and Jets in 86. They have enough bona fide connections to NYC to be able to wear the name.

Red Bulsl on the other hand, they have nothing to do with NY and never have any legitimate connections here. When Red Bull bought the team they gave it a NY name for sole purpose of marketing the brand image to america's most iconic city. (Even MetorStars never referred to them selves as NY) it was always NY/NJ and then just MetroStars.

 

All the NYCFC executives are on twitter if you need to contact them.. But wait until the voting is done, they probably got a few messages on a daily basis right now.

 

I still got my stolen scoreboard light bulb from Shea Stadium after the Jets last game there!

 

Well..

 

It seems that the super-duper-NYC-connected Jack Bell does suffer from the tabloid-ian affliction of making shit up to stir up the pot and get attention.

 

Because it never was an option?..

 

One less thing for the Midol Brigade to chirp about. Not that that's really going to stop them.

Not saying Westchester was never on the table, I just found it odd. Odd that he never did a follow up. Odd that he never mentioned anything in the Times until I raised the question in the comments section of an entirely different article and odd that nobody else picked up the story.

 

Oh he might have heard about Westchester as he was the one mentioning it as a training campus for NYCFC, he might also have heard about building a temporary stadium and just assumed they where connected..

 

The interesting part of the tweet is that regarding the stadium, "all options remain open." To me that means "we haven't gotten any further on the Bronx site"

 

They where options about a temporary stadium I assume.. As that is the context of the tweet I mean

 

Don´t think so given what executives that will attend (Reyna/Pernetti), but a possible sneak preview of what Adidas have in mind perhaps..

 

If they truly are committed to being the NYC team, Yankee Stadium is the only real option for the start up.

 

Anyone else find the f.Cosmos fans in the comments hilariously pathetic?

"Vote is rigged!" "Anyone can vote, 100,000 votes isn't impressive!" "I voted for the weakest one"

Grow the ******** up.

 

That's because a lot of f.Cosmos fans are a bitter, delusional lot.

 

They were sold a bill of goods with the Cosmos that will panned out to be basically the LI Rough Riders 2.

Couple that with the failure of the predictions that NYCFC would just be basically a reworked Man City badge (to be honest I made same prediction)

They are upset.

 

That sir is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 100% spot on.

 

With their budget they will win NASL repeatedly. But lets be honest, is that any more relevant than the LI Ducks winning their independent league last year... As a minor league team (on LI) they've probably maxed out popularity wise. Most of their crowds (outside their opener) were in the 5-6K range (which is fantastic for lower league in states) but it's far below where I'm sure they thought they'd be (which is only about 1K more than the LIRRs drew in their heyday) .