2017 MLS Attendance Prediction Contest: Round 7 - New Players Welcome - Deadlines: Apr 14 7:00PM ET

Gotta say, attendance continues to be disappointing in most markets, and the weather has been gorgeous for weeks here on the East Coast. Is MLS losing momentum? Any ideas?

Montreal 17,144
Orlando 25,527
Chicago 16,914
New York 20,104
Columbus 12,319
Houston 16,125
Colorado 15,087
Portland 21,144

 

Columbus- 12319 (ouch)
Houston- 16125 (ouch again)
Colorado- 15087

 

Well that's a grim assessment.

 

shuttle kids and parents to games with free tickets

 

That is a bizarre link. Who the hell would proudly boast about MLS games and post pictures of only one view of a stadium and say "clearly MLS empty seats?" Is this some freakish fetish? Do you get out much, if at all?

 

but the funny thing is all the teams hes pointing out are teams that everyone knows as having attendance issues.

 

the american public needs to get wowed, the mls academies for all their good...do not produce magic...hence the mls has some attendence problems with many teams..everyone knows this. When Maradona deduted at 15 years of age..the coach's instructions were...nutmeg the first opponent that comes at you and enjoy yourself..the rest is history..

tactics can be learned so on and so forth later at around 16,17. But children should be encouraged to be ball hogs,the ones that have any talent will developed the rest can play recreational soccer. We all know bigger is not better in soccer...

Who's tearing it up in the mls currently...the short,skinny kids from Argentina,Paraguay,etc..with an Argentine coach no less...that should be the model in developing magic,,,then and only then should it be paired with German engineered soccer.

oh try getting grass fields in the middle of cities...

 

Pretty easy... The game is still too slow here. It needs about 10 more years of kids growing up watching, playing, and actually seeing that they can make a living doing it.

 

kids and coaches have no excuse, they have been able to watch games from the best leagues and tv or youtube etc... for at least 10 years already,all they have to do is watch,copy and emulate

 

MLS is just the worst. They should be locked up on display for the public to throw tomatoes at them.

 

I'm getting the impression we have an MLS hater here which makes me wonder why he posts his boring vitriol in this forum.
I suppose it's considered exercise at the computer in Mom's basement.