View Full Version : Football markings for second leg?
CLEATS
27 Oct 2007, 04:48 PM
Anyone know if those ugly football markings will be removed for the second leg of the play-offs Nov 3rd against the Red Bulls?
TheRustyEunuch
27 Oct 2007, 05:53 PM
I wouldn't think so. Are they easy to remove from an artificial surface? It would be nice though and by nice i mean really really nice.
The Magpie
27 Oct 2007, 06:24 PM
I'd almost bet on it.
RevsFanDan
27 Oct 2007, 06:24 PM
Anyone know if those ugly football markings will be removed for the second leg of the play-offs Nov 3rd against the Red Bulls?
I would bet my entire life savings and 3 future children and say..Not a chance!!!
...if I was a betting man..:D
Mick7184
27 Oct 2007, 06:36 PM
It dosent matter if they are easy to remove, it would require someone upstairs giving a sh*t, and that situation dosent currently exist.
CLEATS
27 Oct 2007, 06:53 PM
It dosent matter if they are easy to remove, it would require someone upstairs giving a sh*t, and that situation dosent currently exist.
A real bummer.:mad:
BBruin66
27 Oct 2007, 07:10 PM
Are they really easy to remove? do they paint the lines on or use actual colored field turf... all the turf ive seen has built in lines, so the whole field would have to be returfed from my understanding. I think they just paint the lines for the revs (yellow.) Id imagen they have a whole built in turf for the Pats and then just paint the relatively few lines for the soccer game on that, and remove them once the pats play.
Rowdies4ever
27 Oct 2007, 07:20 PM
Anyone know if those ugly football markings will be removed for the second leg of the play-offs Nov 3rd against the Red Bulls?<pedantry>The soccer markings are football markings too. You mean those ugly gridiron markings, to be more precise.</pedantry> :)
It's not just a question of time or how easy it is to add and remove markings, it is also a question of money. Grounds crews people don't work for free.
One more reason to want our own SSS.
RevsFanDan
27 Oct 2007, 09:46 PM
Watching a game is really really confusing. As with the Revs games "they", meaning Denny Crane's grounds crew is probably instructed to make the yellow lines really faint. Is it just me or do Gillette's yellow lines look like a bunch of dogs went onto the field and pissed on it???
If 68k were anticipated for a Revs playoff game you can rest assured that there would be not one gridiron mark on the pitch.
But as Rowdies just said that's why the Revs need their own park!!!
CLEATS
27 Oct 2007, 10:23 PM
But as Rowdies just said that's why the Revs need their own park!!!
Can we really trust that the same people who won't pay to have these ugly gridiron lines removed for an important play-off game ''turning customers away in the process'' would like to invest in a soccer specific stadium for the Revs.I'm not so sure.
bbsbt
27 Oct 2007, 10:29 PM
Anyone know if those ugly football markings will be removed for the second leg of the play-offs Nov 3rd against the Red Bulls?Funny you should mention that.
I have three season tickets and have stopped going since September when those markings were put up. I just can't bring myself to go anymore. And watching the game on TV, I find it very much annoying and displeasing.
The markings didn't bother me THAT much in the past, but for some reason, I now find them insulting. So much that, after six years of being a season ticket holder, I'm seriously thinking of not renewing again. For next year I'll probably buy single-game tickets only to pre-September games, before the markings are put up again.
RevsFanDan
27 Oct 2007, 11:05 PM
Can we really trust that the same people who won't pay to have these ugly gridiron lines removed for an important play-off game ''turning customers away in the process'' would like to invest in a soccer specific stadium for the Revs.I'm not so sure.
You know what?..you're right.
But, in the long run you have to look at it this way. Other than MLS telling Kraft, "Look you either get this team their own stadium or we'll take the franchise away"...which I don't see that happening in the near term, I can see other teams, who've had to build stadiums and new teams coming in, needing a stadium plan, blah blah blah...eventually MLS is going to have to push a little harder.
I can't look into the minds of Denny Crane and his son...so I don't know what long term plan they have. Some of us here do realize that the Revs play second fiddle to his main moneymaker..actually who wouldn't do that? But, his continual disrespect for the team and its fans has to come to blows sooner or later.
Sure, to some fans its downright disgusting that the Revs, come September, have to play the beautiful game with all the confusing scribbles on the field. At least when there was real grass growing the lines would fade and cutting would almost eliminate the grids. However, there are plenty of fans that don't care about the lines because they enjoy the other team as well. And with the increase in attendance, the lines on the field is the last thing on most people's minds..both those that are in the FO and the ones who pay to watch the games.
So, now instead of the Pay Shalrie sign in the corner..maybe a Clean the Pitch for Revs Games could be hung????? Just a thought!! and see what happens!!! I'd bet that security will come over and make them take it down!
CLEATS
27 Oct 2007, 11:08 PM
I have three season tickets and have stopped going since September when those markings were put up. I just can't bring myself to go anymore.
I feel your pain.The reason i asked the question is because i will not attend the game if those lines are not removed.
And watching the game on TV, I find it very much annoying and displeasing.
But at least it's free,although in your case it's not,is it.
Rowdies4ever
28 Oct 2007, 03:57 AM
Can we really trust that the same people who won't pay to have these ugly gridiron lines removed for an important play-off game ''turning customers away in the process'' would like to invest in a soccer specific stadium for the Revs.I'm not so sure.In the near term, no, there is not much incentive for the Krafts to do anything.
Long term, however, a SSS makes sense, even to the Krafts. SSS make money. The Krafts, I would think, know a thing or two about putting together deals that make money.
It just takes time to create the proper mix of political and economic incentives to make a SSS happen. The Revs will probably be the last of the existing MLS clubs to get a SSS.
Soccer Doc
28 Oct 2007, 10:27 AM
I would bet ..Not a chance!!!
I'll take that bet.
The Stadium has taken up the lines before (LA game) and with the Pats schedule there is no reason not to take them up for this game and the ECC against the Fire. :p
CLEATS
28 Oct 2007, 10:34 AM
The Stadium has taken up the lines before (LA game) and with the Pats schedule there is no reason not to take them up for this game and the ECC against the Fire. :p
So when can we expect to know weather this is happening or not?
Soccer Doc
28 Oct 2007, 10:46 AM
So when can we expect to know weather this is happening or not?
Why don't you give Craig a call on Monday morning.
KATref
28 Oct 2007, 10:48 AM
I'll take that bet.
The Stadium has taken up the lines before (LA game) and with the Pats schedule there is no reason not to take them up for this game and the ECC against the Fire. :p
Except being too cheap. I think the lines will stay, they took them up before LA solely for the "Beckham" factor. They have no incentive to do it now. :mad:
Cannons
28 Oct 2007, 10:55 AM
Watching a game is really really confusing. As with the Revs games "they", meaning Denny Crane's grounds crew is probably instructed to make the yellow lines really faint. Is it just me or do Gillette's yellow lines look like a bunch of dogs went onto the field and pissed on it???
If 68k were anticipated for a Revs playoff game you can rest assured that there would be not one gridiron mark on the pitch.
But as Rowdies just said that's why the Revs need their own park!!!
Don't worry, unless you happen to get FSC or go to the game, you won't have to worry about seeing those markings. It's amazing that they televise most of the games during the regular season but do not bother with the playoffs. :(
revsfan44
28 Oct 2007, 11:18 AM
I'll take that bet.
The Stadium has taken up the lines before (LA game) and with the Pats schedule there is no reason not to take them up for this game and the ECC against the Fire. :p
i agree. i remember they took them off for the playoff game against the fire last year, so why not now?