Roger Allaway's Recent Activity

  1. Roger Allaway replied to the thread News: 2024 MLS Attendance Thread.

    The story on the Revs website seems to indicate that this "service" consists of one train from Boston to Foxboro and one train from...

    Apr 22, 2024 at 7:20 PM
  2. Roger Allaway replied to the thread News: 2024 MLS Attendance Thread.

    Does the fact that Seattle's attendance has faded since its glory days beg the question of whether Atlanta's attendance will do the same...

    Apr 21, 2024 at 1:57 PM
  3. Roger Allaway replied to the thread 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup.

    OK. I thought it had to do with the attitudes of sports fans toward their rivals.

    Apr 21, 2024 at 11:56 AM
  4. Roger Allaway liked Paul Berry's post in the thread News: 2024 MLS Attendance Thread.

    It wasn't intended to be an amateur tournament. We've had an annual National Amateur Cup since 1923.

    Apr 20, 2024 at 7:36 PM
  5. Roger Allaway replied to the thread News: 2024 MLS Attendance Thread.

    And the reason why the National Amateur Cup was started in 1923 is that the amateurs were getting dominated by the pros in the Open Cup...

    Apr 20, 2024 at 7:36 PM
  6. Roger Allaway replied to the thread News: 2024 MLS Attendance Thread.

    No. Fall River Marksmen, Bethlehem Steel, St. Louis Stix, St. Louis Simpkins, Philadelphia Nationals, Brookhatten, New Bedford Whalers...

    Apr 20, 2024 at 7:34 PM
  7. Roger Allaway replied to the thread News: 2024 MLS Attendance Thread.

    That NASL attitude of telling tradition to take a hike is exactly what I fear is happening.

    Apr 20, 2024 at 10:25 AM
  8. Roger Allaway replied to the thread 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup.

    I know two North Carolina graduates and basketball fans who both say they'd rather see Duke lose than see UNC win.

    Apr 19, 2024 at 9:45 PM
  9. Roger Allaway replied to the thread News: 2024 MLS Attendance Thread.

    To me, the magic of the USOC isn't about the lower-division teams. It's about the fact that the USOC is one of the few links still...

    Apr 19, 2024 at 8:26 PM
  10. Roger Allaway replied to the thread News: 2024 MLS Attendance Thread.

    They did have interest in seeing MLS teams play in the USOC, but the games that have been played so far didn't (and never would have in...

    Apr 19, 2024 at 7:41 PM
  11. Roger Allaway liked Pegasus's post in the thread Copa v Olympics.

    Probably too soon. There's enough big stars including Messi to make this an easy sell. Remember thought it's CONMEBOL not US Soccer, MLS...

    Apr 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM
  12. Roger Allaway liked Paul Calixte's post in the thread 2024 U.S. Open Cup.

    A nice full-circle moment from when the USSF snatched the website URL from Hakala and co. :thumbsup:

    Apr 18, 2024 at 4:35 PM
  13. Roger Allaway liked superdave's post in the thread News: 2024 MLS Attendance Thread.

    This could also serve as the title of a book about the history of Michigan politics over the last century.

    Apr 17, 2024 at 4:27 PM
  14. Roger Allaway replied to the thread Famous person is dead. R.I.P. [R].

    Read about Erskine in Roger Kahn's "The Boys of Summer". Erskine was a great, great person, the best person among those 1950s Dodgers...

    Apr 16, 2024