Revolution Stadium Groundbreaking "12-24 months" Part XV

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  1. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You don't miss a trick, Alan! :ROFLMAO:
    In other news, it's hard to find a suitable spot in the "urban core" for a stadium. I first heard they were looking in Sommerville where the Home Depot is back around 2005. But I bet NYCFC breaks ground before we do, even if it takes them a while.
     
  2. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Oh yeah, also in this mailbag, our own WeberKing asked about getting Jonathan Kraft on the podcast. This was Wahl Thing's response:

    "I’ll give it a shot. He’s actually more reachable to a media guy like me than you might expect, and he really does care about his soccer team, judging from some of the conversations I’ve had with him over the years."

    Now that would be either a "must-listen" or a "throw a bottle at your computer screen" scenario. Maybe I would be sure to listen, and afterwards I would want to do major destruction...
     
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  3. ctsoccer13

    ctsoccer13 Member+

    Mar 25, 2002
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    get the ammo ready.
     
  4. BERich

    BERich Member+

    Feb 3, 2012
    New England
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yes, they would be like Blackberry!!
     
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  5. firstshirt

    firstshirt Member+

    Bayern München
    United States
    Mar 1, 2000
    Ellington, CT / NK, RI
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Brian just Tweeted they are 12-24 months from making an announcement that they are 12-24 months from breaking ground!
     
  6. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Wait, I though he tweeted that 12-24 months ago...
     
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  7. ctsoccer13

    ctsoccer13 Member+

    Mar 25, 2002
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He did . On 12/24/12
     
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  8. Alan

    Alan Titanium Member

    Feb 25, 1999
    Massachusetts
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    See, now that's some real progress for ya, cause after all, they've been trying really, really hard, and our fans, the best in MLS I'm told, deserve every crumb 'The Worst Owners in MLS' according to Boston Magazine, are willing to let fall from the table.
     
  9. Alan

    Alan Titanium Member

    Feb 25, 1999
    Massachusetts
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I was thinking the exact same thing, about myself, when I noticed you somehow managed to sign up for Big Soccer an entire week before I did.

    1. How did that happen? :sneaky:
    2. Did you use an acoustic coupler to dial in from your CompuServe account?
     
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  10. RevsLiverpool

    RevsLiverpool Member+

    Nov 12, 2005
    Boston
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah I suggestes having Kraft and perhaps Heaps and Burns to Cathal Conlin the VP of Marketing of the revs, on the revs' own "Far Post" podcast. Naturally, nothing has happened.
     
  11. firstshirt

    firstshirt Member+

    Bayern München
    United States
    Mar 1, 2000
    Ellington, CT / NK, RI
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    that was like 5 years ago
     
  12. RevsLiverpool

    RevsLiverpool Member+

    Nov 12, 2005
    Boston
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The comment was made in December 2010 I think
     
  13. Revs09

    Revs09 Member

    Jul 31, 1999
    A quote yesterday from Mr. Robert Kraft himself

    "In the end, we’re in a competitive league, and you can’t compete at the highest level if you don’t have a first-rate stadium."

    Too bad he wasn't talking about his Revolution and was referencing the Oakland move.
     
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  14. BERich

    BERich Member+

    Feb 3, 2012
    New England
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    OK, I'm going to make someone a lot of money. That needs to be on a T-shirt, so everybody can wear it to a Revs game.
     
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  15. a517dogg

    a517dogg Member+

    Oct 30, 2005
    Rochester, NY
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Fly it on a banner over the next Revs home game
     
  16. RevsLiverpool

    RevsLiverpool Member+

    Nov 12, 2005
    Boston
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I am biased but I would like to see "adhuc expectans" (forever waiting in Latin) on a banner at the next revs game.
     
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  17. BrianLBI

    BrianLBI BigSoccer Supporter

    Sep 7, 2002
    New Hampshire
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Nothing like Latin to reach the widest possible audience. :rolleyes:
     
  18. a517dogg

    a517dogg Member+

    Oct 30, 2005
    Rochester, NY
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    should be on our new crest. that we are waiting for.
     
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  19. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Save that for "Latin American Night." I'm sure it will be a big hit with that audience!
     
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  20. a517dogg

    a517dogg Member+

    Oct 30, 2005
    Rochester, NY
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    I'm Dan Quayle and I approve this message



    (I feel obligated to state that Quayle never said that Latin America quote attributed to him, though)
     
  21. DanTheMan

    DanTheMan Member

    Jan 12, 2001
    New Hampster
    *Does not apply to MLS teams owned by the speaker.
     
  22. RevsLiverpool

    RevsLiverpool Member+

    Nov 12, 2005
    Boston
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's no more obscure than the "flag of New England" that many in the Fort wave and the team has adopted. :rolleyes: Have you EVER seen that flag before the team/fans adopted it? Not me and I am good with history.

    If you prefer, they could simply put "Forever waiting" with a revs logo on a banner, if it needs to be spelled out, though that misses the humor.
     
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  23. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Having a Latin motto is pretty commonin a lot of places. E Pluribus Unum, Semper Fi, Veritas, etc. Glasgow Rangers had "Aye Ready" which was Glaswegian, but they changed it to just "Ready" a few years ago. Blackburn Roves has "Art et Labour" and there are a bunch of other examples.

    I once played on a team that had the Latin Phrase "Drinkimus Maximus" on the crest.
     
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  24. RevsLiverpool

    RevsLiverpool Member+

    Nov 12, 2005
    Boston
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Exactly. But it's not everyone's cup of tea I suppose.
     
  25. propnut27

    propnut27 Member

    Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur
    Germany
    Mar 15, 2009
    Naples Fl.
    Club:
    --other--
    With regard to the "New England Flag", I was certainly aware of it as a teenager, (I'm 77 now).
    As a kid I was involved in drum and bugle corps, (which was a very popular youth activity in the 1950s). My girlfriend at that time marched in a corps' color guard, the Cambridge Caballeros, who were National Champions in 1957. She carried the "Cambridge Flag", which was a stars and stripes with the Union Jack in place of the blue starred canton. The color Guard also carried the "New England Flag". Both of these flags appeared in the American army during the Revolution. Anyone who knew anything about flags, and regional history, sadly not a huge percentage of the population, was aware of these flags, and their connection with the American Revolution. It's a damned handsome flag, too.
     
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