City of Bridgeview needs the money and I'm sure XFL would like a team in Chicago (well 12 miles outside of Chicago).
Like I said.. a few.. The last XFL had teams in NJ, LA, Chicago, Orlando, Las Vegas, Memphis, Birmingham, and San Francisco.. That’s only 4 MLS cities, 5 if you count San Fran.
Posted in the other thread, but LA1 or 2, NYRB, and Chicago Fire each have solid places which may be available. Then looking at some of the largest cities without the NFL, there's Portland, Orlando, Salt Lake, and Columbus. Each pretty solid for what the XFL is likely to want. Don't think there are viable stadiums in San Diego or St. Louis, or in Sacramento unless there's an MLS club granted. Don't be surprised if most of that league plays in MLS facilities.
Oh for god's sake don't make me drive all the way to Bridgeview to see the Chicago Fightin' Omarosa's
One where Toronto finally has a winner to support. The support has always beeen there, just needed a good team.
That's why numbers are reported as Season Ticket Equivalents. That way they can sell half season tickets and count 2 half season tickets as 1 full season ticket equivalent.
Attendance at tonight's #Rapids96 game vs. #TFC: 2,673.— Daniel Boniface (@danielboniface) February 21, 2018 Can't blame them. It was -15 C (3 F) during the match. One of the coldest soccer matches ever.
Also interesting that it states that the 84% show up rate prevented the team from reporting "what would have been considered sell outs in terms of tickets sold". (And that they expect to sell out every game this year.) This appears to be confirmation that TFC uses turnstile numbers instead of tickets sold. So presumably their reported attendance would be higher if they (as I understand the other teams to do) used tickets sold (or distributed) instead.
This is the best I could find for coldest soccer game ever played https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/dec/15/the-knowledge-cold-football-matches Looks like the TFC vs Rapids has it beat. Even in Russia they try not to play in weather this cold.
I practiced on a turf field back as a teenager when it was around 20F. Every time you fell it felt like hitting ice!
Didn't make it (traveling) but saw where a lot of folks headed to the inside bar since IT WAS SO COLD THE BEER LINES FROZE! https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/21/beer-taps-freeze-rapids-toronto-fc-soccer-game/