I would argue there was damage before Precourt. MLS bizarre rules clearly favor certain markets and Columbus has always been the runt of the litter. Day one some teams had a Donadoni, some had a Doctor. I know folks who stopped watching the league because they feel it's rigged. MLS for the first twelve years or so was soccer the suburban sport. Families were the priority, a saccharine atmosphere was demanded by the league and what happened? The league decided it wanted to be urban hipster. Everything they had done in those first years was wrong and we are seeing the effect. It's not just Columbus either. Colorado, NE, MetroBulls, Chicago and Dallas are playing in empty stadiums. The only original that seems to be doing well is LA and they've been given so many league handjobs I've lost track. Before FratAss showed up and pissed on the market it was damaged goods.
This is interesting. So you are saying you have a source that told you he was not in attendance for the most recent meeting? If so i would say that may have some significance.
I saw a reference to Dave Greeley having represented the Crew at the meeting. Which is OK, since the BoG is one-vote per team, so they can probably designate someone. Still seems odd.
Tony was probably too busy pounding queso flavored zimas to be bothered by something as trivial as a BoG meeting. Greeley gets sent to do the small fry stuff. Like drumming up support in Austin and meeting with the other owners.
Yes. To be fair... people forget how small hockey used to be here in Columbus too. Before 94 we had one ice hockey rink (OSU). Though there were a lot of minor league hockey teams that came and went in Columbus before the Chill kind of captured the cities attention in thee early '90s.
While I agree matches against the Austin Toxic Avengers will be epicly nasty, I think any PSV owned team will be reviled by the entire league, or at least by all SGs.
There were other rinks off and on--one by where Sonic now is that was taken over by Riverside for a storage facility and one up in Worthington off Wilson Bridge Rd. But I only ever skated at tOSU. Oh, there was a downtown rink on land that was originally supposed to be the site for the fourth anchor at City Center Mall called the Centrum. I think I went there with my then GF (not Mrs. KG--met her much later) once or twice. But I played IM hockey at tOSU for 5-6 years (grad school will do that for you) back in the late 1970s thru early 1980s as I was a bit of a rink rat in those days. Haven't played since as my then roomies borrowed my gear and I never got it back.
I think what's significant about it is that it would imply that AP is even on the outs with other owners about this nonsense and so he sent Greely as a proxy becasue he doesn't even want to face the other owners.
F*ck this f*cking commissioner.... Garber says he feels for Crew’s small but passionate fan base. Called managing current situation with Columbus one of most difficult parts of job. Regrets that zero municipal support for new stadium has materialized. https://t.co/erg1IkVGjm— Jeff Rosen (@jeff_rosen88) April 19, 2018
mu·nic·i·pal myo͞oˈnisəpəl/ adjective relating to a city or town or its governing body. So I guess the mayor, area politicians, and the Columbus Partnership don't count as relating to a city or town and/or it's governing body. MLS continues to live in fairy tale land...
Are you interpreting Mark Abbott's body language in the accompanying photo? Because, I agree, I think that's what it says.
I don't have to imagine. I've been to Browns-Ravens games. To describe a potential Crew-Austin game as "vitriolic" would be polite.
From what I gathered in a brief look on Twitter, this Jeff Rosen guy is a reporter in KC, and he interviewed Garber recently Edit: whoops, looks like I was beaten to the punch on this info from Tweetville haha
Again, this is between us and Austin. Where, of course, zero municipal support for a stadium has materialized. I don't see this second hand tweet as changing anything whatsoever.