Orlando - 7877 Rochester - unknown, at the moment. And I really don't feel like going hunting right now.
It looked really sparse at the game. Taking an educated guess, I would say 3000-4000 at the most, the numbers the Rhinos will post will be far higher than that.
I was hoping for a sell out but the weather looked like it was going to dump all afternoon (had a heavy shower around 2pm in the afternoon) Fortunately, we got through the tailgate without any rain but was pretty breezy. Rained during the first half some which sent some people under the stands but the second half was just fine!
Correct me if I'm wrong, and I am sure that Kenn will while giving no quarter, but I remember the San Diego Flash going from the USL A-League (2nd Division) down a division, moving to indoor and then going extinct...all the while, attendance going down ....in a flash...
Okay, okay, sorry I yelled at you. The Flash actually were in the A-League, their owners bailed, they were run by the San Diego Nomads for a year and then went away after the 2001 season. The Gauchos of Division III started in 2002 and were a different club entirely (the Gauchos dropped to the PDL in 2005 and played there for two years before folding). So the Flash never dropped a division. And I have no recollection or records of them ever playing indoor (they may have floated the idea, Yan floated a lot of them). The Flash name was resurrected in 2010, but it, too, isn't the same organization. Just has the same name.
Didn't the Nomads come first, playing in the APSL(?) Ahhh, remember the Condors with Jason Moon and Wes Wade. Was Peter Duah the coach or was it the Englishman from Glendale CC?) Then that became the A-League and they were renamed the Flash? I was thinking of the SD Sockers of the CISL...my bad...
No, the Nomads youth club. Derek Armstrong and company stepped in at the last moment to make sure there'd be A-League soccer in San Diego in 2001. Cost the league quite a bit to fund it for that year.