Have you been out to Loudoun County recently? The answer is "hell yes." Place is overrun with suburban development.
Lots of parts of Fairfax County will be as close or closer to the dcu2 stadium than the dcu1 stadium.
It is worth mentioning, and will hopefully put money in the right pockets for once. I hope they won't carry on the extortion like practices of the DCSC and whatever the Hell they call their successors. My concern is that the playing surface stays as well groomed as Jackie Gleason's pool table and actually will (long term thinking) help United's passing and ball control. Oh yeah and world peace, a cure for cancer and firm Ta-Tas too.
Yes. It's not exactly a small county and it's next to the largest county in Virginia. It's still the DC market and part of northern Virginia. The county residents fill a few high school football stadiums every Friday night during the Fall. There are plenty of people. It may still somehow be less convenient than the Soccerplex for most, but we go to Spirit games out there too.
You really think naming the team after confederate soldiers would be a good marketing move? I would figure the owners were white nationalists and I would never go to a game. I wonder how black athletes would feel about being gray ghosts.
Well that will certainly alienate the cat lovers out there who may believe the team owners discriminates against them, take umbrage and preemptively refuse to attend. Will cat owning athletes of any race, creed, national origin, religious belief ,or sexual orientation feel hesitant about playing for the team? .
Do dog lovers refuse to attend football games which include the LSU Tigers; Jacksonville Jaguars; Detroit Lions; et. al. ?
Shoulda put one of those sarcasm thingies on the end, I thought it was dripping off the post like grease from a bucket of KFC
Show me a genocide joke I made and I'll consider your whining, You need to do as most others do and stop taking yourself so seriously. I hope this isn't too personal so you complain again, so I'm doing my best not to hurt your feelings
This Confederacy shit needs to just stop. It's not funny. It's not representative of anything the organization or Loudoun County should be about. A couple of guys driving near the site asked me where a good place to park was yesterday. I didn't know why they asked me. I was wearing a DC United jacket and walking around the site so they thought I was going to some event for the stadium. One appeared to be wearing a United scarf, but I didn't get a good look at them. I told them I didn't know about any event and hadn't seen signs of an event.. They said it was for season ticket holders. I believe my reaction was, "Ouch. I am a season ticket holder." I told them what was available south of the site since 2nd St directly west of the stadium as well as R St north of the site are completely fenced off for tearing up and completely re-building those roads. I didn't enter the closed streets yesterday or at any point last week. I did today. I noted before that I was a little surprised the roads were completely closed due to how road construction took place elsewhere around the site. I get more than a little angry every time I see even a portion of a road closed (not for a simple resurfacing, but a complete rebuild) while knowing a PEPCO line goes under the east stands and supposedly limited the team's options. The line limiting the team was always a bullshit excuse. The east buildings are coming along quite a bit and obviously much more impressive than initially poorly planned. Also impressive is the amount of steel that has gone up for the east buildings, but there is still a good amount to go. There might be a few more small pieces of concrete to be put in place on the east side, but it is mostly the south stand and southeast corner that remain. It's hard to see a lot of the more significant progress. Most of the south/team building has long been enclosed. Concrete masonry is enclosing rooms along the west and north stands while it's also difficult to observe the work on some levels of the east buildings. Here are some attempts to make the area look desolate. I like the low angle, fence shot from south of the site that doesn't make parking lots obvious.
Wait... wait... wait... you're trying to make an equivalency between my going out to the stadium site to make a contribution to this thread that includes descriptions and photos with hopes that United's USL team references the Confederacy? Oh, it was the years of kidding about hating Canadians while making meaningful contributions to this thread that is somehow the same as Loudoun and United endorsing the Confederacy. Good thing I didn't mention the Ontario tagged minivan in a PEPCO parking area by the Buzzard Point Plant yesterday. I have never said the organization or city should be about birds other than Talon. I've observed them around/on the site. Canadians don't have shit to do with United other than being shitty second year players for United like every other nationality. Repeatedly referencing the Confederacy and thinking it's funny is ********ed up especially when barely the minimum was done to change thinking or actions in the former Confederate territories after the war. It's ********ed up when the descendants of slaves have to deal with people constantly diminishing what the Confederacy was, but yeah... that's equivalent to going to the location in the title of this thread and noting what is happening there. ******** Metro charging for parking on Saturdays.
With the sixth canopy support currently being put in place, half of the east side supports are now installed.
Y’all this is all so boring. If you get mad about it then the terrorists win. So it’s been 13 days since east roof supports started going up.
That steel was sitting there all weekend. I was wondering if that was next since it wasn't the normal locations for stuff for the east.
Does anyone have any details? What exactly is Goff reporting and what sort of "ceremony" is being planned, and by whom? Nothing on dcunited.com yet. Thanks
All I have seen so far is the Goff tweet. I haven't seen anything from the team or Mayor anywhere. The Entertainment and Sports Arena just topped out last week. That appeared to be a larger event for the crews with the Mystics and some media also there. I posted a few tweets from that event. It's almost hard to imagine a topping off ceremony. Would it be for some part of the east structures, the team store,a lighting array or even an entrance? I have no idea especially with the current street closures.