Crew are trending toward a big opening day. Weather forecast is poor but tickets are selling briskly. We should be above 16K.
The 10K number shows just how degraded the fanbase is. When the stadium opened they blasted out into the aether that we had 12K season tickets....sold out! Now that number is so much lower. It's amazing that Chris Canetti was allowed to walk away and is managing Houston's bid for 2026.
Well, of course if they're going to schedule games in Columbus in early March (might as well be February) then they can expect that the weather will be the usual, average weather for this time of year.
My annual guess for attendance. I was within 0.25% last year! https://www.stumptownfooty.com/2019/2/27/18244274/crystal-ball-predictions-2019-attendance Total: 9,044,850 Avg: 22,169
In case you’re expecting a big number in Commerce City for today’s Rapids opener, don’t. There’s currently a storm over the Denver metro which is currently dumping several inches of snow on the area and will continue until tomorrow.
Right now just light snow here in Arvada and out in Commerce City, but its supposed to pick up after 2pm (kickoff at 4pm).
Forecast in Columbus has improved. We'll get above 40 at game time with no precipitation. Might not get a big walk up crowd though with the Arnold going on.
I think it is very odd he schedulers, scheduled a game in Colorado on opening weekend. Maybe it is normal but I would have put them on the road for a week or two just to try to get further into the spring.
We're playing Portland, so it probably has something to do with their long enforced road trip. Our earliest game before this I think was March 9th, which had to be bumped back a day due to a storm. But, again, we're getting into the scheduling issue and the league wanting to move earlier and earlier, so early march games are going to be a thing in Denver going forward, as much as I think its a bad idea.
At some point, someone from the Rapids FO needs to call up the league office and let them know that March is Colorado's snowiest month and that maybe putting off the Rapids' home opener until the second half of March might not be a terrible idea.
Except waiting that long for the home opener every year sucks and is unfair to the team. Its why I dislike the schedule moving earlier.
It could have been 70 or 30, turns out it's going to be 30 with snow. I hope they brought the orange or yellow balls.
That is the same for much of the country this time of the year, but seems the chances of weather like this in early march is much higher in Denver, Minnesota, Toronto, NYC, Chicago, Boston, Vancouver, and Montreal. If they want to keep moving the season forward seems it would be logical to avoid home games the first week or two in these locations. Yes, I know that isn't fair, but that is the problem with moving the season earlier. I know this topic has been discussed a lot. Don't mean to rehash it. P.S. Here in Northeast TN we often get huge snows in early March. So even fairly far south snow is very possible in March. It could also be 80 degrees here in early March.
More likely to happen in Denver, if I recall there have been many occasions that it went from 30 to 70 (or vice versa) within a day.
Latest info Around 20 degrees at kickoff with temps dropping into the teens during the game with a comfortable 13 mph breeze. Good news... tomorrow afternoon will be in the single digits with temps falling to zero Gooder news... snow predictojave been reduced to 3 to 5 inches withe the heaviest starting this evening.
Orange ball? or Yellow ball? If it's snowing to hard, would the game be rescheduled? If so probably not Sunday considering it's going to be cold.
Playing the first two weeks on the road is such a horrible imposition? Doing that this year would've had the Rapids' home opener on March 18.