How far would you drive to watch professional soccer?

[WishHoustonHAdATeam]

I drive 250+ to see the Burn play...I would drive 1000 to watch the Nats.

[Dom. FC]

We go a little over 300 miles to see the Rapids*, we will be going 600 miles this weekend to see Bayern Munich (and some English team).

* Okay, they didn't look like a professional team last Saturday, they'll be back, I think, I hope ...

[Gunners11]

I've driven to KC from Peoria, and tomarrow I will be driving from Chicago to Columbus. Both trips take about 6 hours or so, give or take a bit. Both matches are to see the Chicago Fire.

[Ed NYC Firm]

I've driven from New York to Raleigh NC to watch 2 preseason matches fro Dundee FC last July . Got to go out drinking with the team on their last night in the States :)

[Bill Schmidt]

LA and san diego arent that far from where i live so i would catch a good game over there if i really wanted to see the game i would drive as fas as to san fransisco which is about 7 hours from where i live

And a match in San Diego would be just about at the 12-hour point for me.

[TrooperBari]

The longest I've ever driven for soccer was well over 1,000 miles ... I went from Omaha to DC for the 2002 All-Star Game and again the next year for a July 4 wedding plus DC-Metros with US-Paraguay in Columbus on the return leg.

Doing that makes all these shorter drives (KC, Chicago, Denver, Dallas) seem much more pleasurable.

[JPH]

As part of a vacation from North Jersey to Savannah a few years back, I went to a Battery game in Charleston. Would that count?

[ZeekLTK]

Depending if I have time off or not, I suppose 6-8 hour drive wouldn't be too bad to see the USA play, especially for World Cup Qualifying.

As for club teams... they could be playing in my backyard and I still wouldn't watch them. :/

[caddisfly]

Some of the Timbers Army went on a road trip to Calgary last year which is just shy of 800 miles one way. The coach saw us on our way in and gave us all free tickets and the players looked a bit shocked to see us at the game. Road trips with friends are always a good time and adding soccer to the mix makes it that much more fun.

[Wizardscharter]

I've driven 8 hours to Dallas and 12 to Denver from East KC. I'm not sure I'll make the Denver drive again unless I can wrap a week around it somehow.

My longest drive was a 52-hour trek over 4 days from East KC to Playa del Carmen, Mexico that I made with my Dad. He wanted a car at his 2nd home and bribed me to join with 2 weeks on the beach, diving, unbelievable food, abundant Swedes, and unlimited Sol. It worked. The first thing I did was go see Inter Playa del Carmen beat up on Cozumel. They have since been promoted to D2 and now have a D3 "B" team. I will fly next time. :)

[T Nitty]

400 miles to Columbus for the Grenada game, 400 miles to Boston for the El Salvador match in September, 30 miles to RFK anytime there's a DC or USMNT game, and 400 miles again to Columbus in November for that qualifier.

I consider myself very lucky to be this close to these matches. We'll see how big of a fan I am when they start playing the qualifiers somewhere other than the east coast.

I sure do miss the ease of travel in the UK and Europe. :(

But I will be there for the final match in Germany! :D

[evanpemsocr]

my father and i have driven 8 hours to crew stadium to see us play grenada and to see the mens college cup. and we drive about 4 hours when we go to dc games.

[AFCA]

Depending if I have time off or not, I suppose 6-8 hour drive wouldn't be too bad to see the USA play, especially for World Cup Qualifying.

As for club teams... they could be playing in my backyard and I still wouldn't watch them. :/

What's your problem? You're like a CD gone bad...

[voros]

We've made the trip from Phoenix to LA several times. It's a shade under 400 miles.

[pmririshman]

I flew from Dallas to Seattle just to watch Celtic last summer. To bad they got spanked by Manchester United.

[AFCA]

flying don't count!

[skinut]

Well, I put 200 as my drive limit, but I've flown much further for matches.

[mutinywxgirl]

On consecutive weekends, I drove (with a friend) from Columbus to Tampa, then Columbus to Boston, then two weeks later, from Columbus to Chicago - all to see the Mutiny play. It was awesome.

Don't get olujosh into this discussion - he's driven from Michigan to Denver before, plus numerous other road trips.

[mellon002]

One day when I have more money I will go further, but for now, just 50 miles.

[1800-WorldCup]

Drive?

I'd fly.

Flew from Europe to Rio -- Maracana, to Buenos Aires -- River Plate.

I hitch-hiked from London to Split (Croatia) to watch Spurs, hitch-hiked to Spain in 1982 -- for the World Cup.