Mods, feel free to move this to rivalries. I'm not actually here to argue or debate, but I can see how this could certainly inflame things. I just thought it was funny. See you guys next year.
Hopefully it will make some of the casual fans more aware of the rivalry. Great marketing move. (and not that it really matters cause Qwest is right across the street, but the stadium in the picture is Safeco Field)
the denver nuggetts put a billboard up on the freeway just outside energy solutions arena (where the jazz play) a season or 2 ago... great marketing. Not only for the team on the board, but for the home team. seattle should thank (in a weird way) Portland for doing that. Ticket prices/demand for that game next year will be through the roof. Hope they open the entire stadium
With their inaugural season ticket sales lagging behind every other recent expansion club, it's clear they needed a gimmick. And that's probably one of the cheaper billboard locations in the city (on a normal street in the industrial district south of the stadiums), so it'll get play far beyond its cost or in-person viewing reach. And hey, maybe they'll accidentally sell some tickets to Seattle people (99.99% of the nation would not place "Soccer City USA" in Portland, I can tell you that, so maybe they'll fool a few).
No matter how cheap the billboard was, it's on the front of BS, on Soccer by Ives, MLS Insider, Oregonlive, multiple forums, Facebook and Twitter, and shown at halftime on ESPN2 to a national audience all before 24 hours has transpired. It seems to have outgrown being cheap and turned into excellent marketing mixed with deliberate timing. This is water cooler type 'gimmicks' with massive interweb appeal. As for lagging STH sales, they've sold about 40% of the stadium seating before this season has ended... Whaddya want? 80%?
Exactly what I'm saying. It wasn't bought to be seen by Seattleites. It was bought to have its picture sent to all the interweb sites. Good on Paulson for opening the piggy bank. Like I said, in sheer numbers they're behind everyone else (And one might rightly assume "Soccer City USA" would lead). Once again, good on Paulson for keeping the stadium small in anticipation of precisely this. He's shown his business savvy again.
Gotchya. Define 'else' in your STH remark. Do Real Salt Lake and Chivsa USA count? We got them beat. That leaves PU, TFC. Two more heavily populated areas than Portland, sheer numbers should dictate that... [The best I could see was that Union had 7k sold by Sept '09. Timbers above the Union. The link doesn't work anymore but a GoogleNews search puts the article date at sept 26, 2009, I'd rather not spend more time figuring this out. Basically, I call BS on the lagging.]
funny the flounder copy the Portland Boys...chant... have just as bad looking truff...interesting....
First, TA don't sing. So nothing there to copy. Second, Seattle put up multiple billboards in Portland prior to their promotion to MLS. So really, this is just ANOTHER example of Portscum trying to be exactly like Seattle. For once in your, try and be original, please.
Why this comment is dumb Population of Metropolitan Statistical Areas of the United States of America Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA - 5,968,252 Toronto (Mississauga) ON MSA - 5,113,149 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA MSA - 3,407,848 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA MSA - 2,241,841 Of course they would be behind in raw numbers. Portland is less than 2/3 the size of Seattle. Difference is that theirs worked.
There's a lot of reasons. Oregon's been hit pretty hard by the economy. I don't think season tickets in Portland are going to reflect overall attendance. People can't afford to drop a couple hundred dollars all at once is all that's going on. Bottom line is, the last three-four USL games we've seen have averaged around 14,000+. You won't see many empty seats in Portland next year. That's like sending me dirty pictures while I'm ********ing your mother.
Pyro would be acceptable. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150169594180554 Effective marketing campaign? Well that began about 5 months ago... Still waiting for Mr 15,418 sadly.