Finally!!! RB Park starts Construction next week (new rendering is sick)

Say What?!! HDC is much better than that thing up in the Rockies!

 

interesting...
technically you could get there without highway obstacles. there's a major county road (bloomfield av) which runs through essex county, from the suburbs into the city of newark. if you could catch it when there isn't a lot of traffic, it'd be great. but the car traffic is disorderly, cars are double parked, there are bottlenecks, trucks, some tricky spots. biking is great in the jersey suburbs although you always need to be a bit careful, of course. into rbp might be problematic if you're not really an urban bike rat. i'd say you'd need to get used to the experience. but i suspect it might be just the sort of thing you'd love!
by the way, the harrison PATH station has a bike rack outside and many people do leave bikes there. of course they might be coming just from the immediate neighborhood.

 

Dallas fans are the one who came in here trolling this thread. Seems strange you only respond to Metro fans who were calling them out for their crap. Where's your post calling out the Dallas trolls?

 

Have you been to both?

 

Great looking stadium. Just wish it was 50,000 seats deep instead of 25,000. I am just glad that just the real football(soccer) is going to be played their not the fake football of helmets and pads. If the helmet and pads or any other sport touches my feild i am going to lose respect for the NYRB officials or whoever owns it.

Just look at wembley since the NFL game, the feild looks torn and horrible!

 

Don't be surprised if there is the occasional high school football game there. It's a pretty easy revenue generator.

 

Sorry to be nit-picky, but HDC has about 18 soccer fields around the main grounds, including the Mooch Myernick Field used by the various naional teams in training. The others have been rented out to local events, including soccer tournaments, for years. And the practice fields were being used that way before PHP was a gleem in the Hunts' eyes.

And I suspect that HDC was not the first to do this either, but clearly had done it years before PHP was up and running.

 

Yeah, we'll be able to sell 50 by then.

 

Please do us all a favour and get over yourself. There are numerous football "codes" around the world. They are all "real" football.

Rugby league is REAL football. Aussie Rules is REAL football. Rugby Union is REAL football. Gaelic football is REAL football. Canadian football league is REAL football (one of the oldest football clubs in the world, regardless of code, are the CFL's Toronto Argonauts est. 1873. That's REAL).

and contrary to what you seem to have convinced yourself of, American Football is REAL football. You can't get more real than the richest sports league in the world.

Open your eyes and realize that just because you may not like something that doesn't make it less "real".

How often do you see wembleys pitch?

 

I'm so glad Red Bull invested in MLS. It's the best thing that has happened to date. Finally, a real soccer stadium

 

You like empty seats?

 

What's wrong with you people RedBulls getting out of GS is the best news the league could have. The only reason there only getting 14,000-16,000 a game is because of the ************ stadium. Once RedBull park opens they'll sell that place out (I don't think every game will sellout, but most of them will). Even if they got 16,000 a game at Redbull park that would be 1,000% better than 16,000 at GS stadium.


By the way that is one GREAT looking stadium, I could only wish ours was that GREAT looking (Don't get me wrong I love are stadium, but RedBull Park is in a class of it's own). Once it's built I'm going to have that get out there and see a game there (a FIRE win that is).

I hope you guys have GREAT wheather out there so it will be done before the 18-20 months and get to play in it early part of 2009.

 

Right on. This is great news for the league and the sport in this country. Anyone who cares about this league and wants to see this league do well should be applauding this news not tearing it down. Giants stadium was the leagues finanacial albatross since inception.

 

FInally a PROPER stadium in MLS!!!

 

I even like this latest design better than the older one! 25,000 seats is also about the right seating capacity for an MLS stadium in the NY Metro area and the stadium looks sharp. That looks like the best stadium in the MLS in my opinion, if they don't change the design.

 

What's wrong with Columbus Crew Stadium?

 

The roof leaks....

 

Man, that sounds really optimistic from a Fire fan. I remember hearing how they would sell out most of their games out in a new, smaller stadium.

They couldn't come close to selling out Toyota Park regularly until Blanco showed. Even then I'd say the current capacity is probably right on. There were lots of seats still at the home Blanco match the Cauldron traveled to.

Fire fans have traditionally supported their team better than RBNY/Metro.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but selling out most games is going to be more about who's playing on the field than how nice the stadium is.

 

I have a feeling that Red Bull will not spend $200m on a stadium while expecting $2m a year teams to sell it out.
There will most likely be a DP of some class coming in for the opening season.

 

The biggest advantage of Red Bull Park isn't the architecture (although that looks great) but the location one block from the PATH subway. As it is now, it is extremely difficult for anyone from New York City to get to games as they either have to drive and pay all of the tolls (and many in NYC don't have cars) or take a rather hellish ride via public transportation from the Port Authority terminal in midtown. That is why the Metros/RBNY have always had attendances drawn mostly from New Jersey.

Once Red Bull Park is built, any one of the 8 million people in NYC will just have to get on the NYC subway and they won't come above ground again until they are one block from the stadium. And since Red Bull will be receiving all of the concession money (vs. the 0% they get now), they will have a much greater incentive to advertise the team in the city more.

I don't know if they will sell out every game, but it doesn't seem too optimistic to think that the fact that 8 million more potential customers can now very easily make it to the stadium could bump the average attendance from 16 thousand into the low twenties at least.

 

I visit NY/NJ about 5 times per year for work and regularly travel from offices in Tenafly into NYC. I definitely know about the mental hurdle that both sides of the state line have about driving to the other side. I hope the PATH stop increases travel to the games. When I'm in the city, I usually drive company cars rather than take public transportation so I'm not too familiar with PATH.

 

I live in Philly, I go to DC to watch games. I just cannot stand GS. Its God's gift of Shite.

I hate to bring this up yet again, but it looks like injuries are going to take their tole on Ronaldo in Italy. He will be let go.

With this new stadium will power house St. Benedicts be recieving some international talent to play with them?

 

that title used to belong to vets stadium, right?