Except that the last thing they want is to actually explicitly say is that the reports of actual progress on the stadium are wrong. That in of itself would essentially ruin the narrative they have indirectly pushed and that they have allowed to meander along for n years now. It will be interesting to see how this gets handled.
I hate Mas for starting this thing the rise and fall of hope is painful. Of course if we consider the source this guy thinks Freedom Park in Miami will happen... pipe dreams all around Die rumor, die, no mas. Move along now..
Like I’ve said, the day the Revs play a home league game in a place other than Gillette is the day the Patriots open their new stadium when Gillette is deemed obsolete.
OTOH, Cambridge and Somerville are also both close to the Garden. Mas didn't say the site was in Boston.
We've heard this before, just different words: https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/ne...-jonathan-kraft-we-will-get-the-stadium-done/
I caught the tail end of Zolak and Bertrand today and apparently Jonathan Kraft was on today talking Revs. I'm listening to a stream of it now to see what he may have said.
I got an upgrade to the club seats a few years back. It was terrible. Great for people who barely want to be there, I suppose. Best seats ever were front row balcony at the old Garden. Got them at center ice for a Beanpot and it felt like you could reach out and touch the players. The balcony seats at Matthews Arena (Northeastern) are also pretty awesome.
I did laugh at Kraft finally admitting that. And it basically is because they noticed how well Atlanta actually did it.
The old arenas and stadiums were built much more vertically than they are now. Those balcony seats were gold, but they are pretty much gone and not coming back.
Re-reading that quote, I was really irritated by that admission. I would love a follow-up to ask him WHAT would they have done differently. The only positive I can think of it is that because of all these admissions, WHENEVER they get a new stadium, it better blow every other stadium out of the water.
Jonathan Kraft was an "almost investor" in the Israel-based dot-com start-up I worked for in 1999. I had so many stock options that if that stock had reached $5, I would have been able to single-handedly buy the Revs and build a new stadium myself! But it didn't quite work out that way.... Anyway, this was around the time they had decided to build the stadium in Foxboro, not Southie or Hartford. I asked him if there were design elements that they'd consider so it wouldn't look just like Giants Stadium with cupholders and a nicer scoreboard. I mentioned Sampdoria's stadium in Genoa, a larger version of that, which would be very unique and offer great sightlines and have the fans right up on top of the action, like Denver's Mile High, which at the time was a huge home field advantage. He seemed somewhat taken off guard by the idea, but mentioned he had been to the Amsterdamn Arena, (which is basically a US-style stadium), and talked about nice the Redskins place was. Sigh.
In today’s Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/busines...l-for-kraft/slYAx4tfAUuOQPTi4V56OJ/story.html
Found this little gem from 4 years ago, way back in part X: Revolution Stadium Groundbreaking "12-24 months" Part X Apr 7, 2014
Someone commented that it was a pretty safe bet because they were further along than we were at that point, and were in a more desperate situation than we were. Imagine if the Patriots moved to Hartford, Gillette never got built and we continued to play in the old stadium. At some point, there would be a real need for us to get our own place, like DC in RFK. But here we are, and DC has played their first game in Audi Field and we are no closer to having a new stadium than we were in 2006.