Alert: Stadium News, Speculation and Possible Truthiness XXV: The Secret Word is... Possibilities.

video of new Sporting KC park

http://www.twitvid.com/RHKIO

sigh...

 

very nice. pretty amazing what one can get done in Kansas City, KS with $200 million.

how many city blocks (or acres) would that venue take up if we tried to steal it via large helicopter and drop it down inside DC?

and can you take a water taxi to its current location? (didn't think so.)

in the next 5 days tv viewers will get to see more of LIVESTRONG Sporting Park as ESPN2 has KC's opener tonight, and then the US finishes Gold Cup group play there on June 14 (on FSC and TeleFutura).

 

I used to be excited when MLS opened a new stadium.

Now I just get depressed ...

 

It's like closing time at a bar where everyone else seemed to have met someone to go home with, and we're quickly running out of options. We're getting so desperate, we're thinking about going home with the dumpy girl with the Baltimore accent.....

 

Trust me when I tell you that Architects are never overpaid.

 

Uh, the girl isn't exactly dumpy Potowmack.

 

She still talks funny

and she's still near Dundalk

 

The depressing inability of major new sports venues to draw the ancillary development necessary to meet the required revenue flows argues for building in a "stadium zone," which doesn't expect mixed-use development to help defray the cost (though it would welcome it if it transpired). We have such an area on the banks of the Anacostia, featuring RFK stadium, two practice fields, and acres of steamy, asphalt parking lots. The site has easy access by Metro and automobiles. Place a shiny new SSS in one of the parking lots and save the RFK Racoon and Rodent Sanctuary for the eventual DannyDome. I know, this requires all manner of federal agencies working with our crack DC government, but it especially requires a deep-pocketed investor (lke the NYRB guy) or even Anschutz who can do all or most of it on his dime. Maybe after Carlyle's IPO some of the principal's can develop a love of the world's game.

 

I don't know if we are desperate enough for the Baltimore girl, but we should build it by corporate naming rights. we could have a nice cheap little thing down at buzzards point with red seats called, WalMart McDonalds Volkswagon EA Sports Suntrust Bank Coca Cola Verizon Fox News Sports Authority Arena, heck if you contribute some money they could throw your name in the too.

That's how Springfield built there stadium http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Duff...rtment_Store_Kwik-E-Mart_Stupid_Flanders_Park


On a serous note though why not try to get some funding by a big naming rights deal, I mean why not Emirates America Stadium or something like that..any other good naming suggestions?

 

Baltimore. . . DC. . . Let's face it, either way you're going to want a rubber.





I'm still trying to work a stadium metaphor into that.

 

Classy!

 

Why not offer some reviled dictators amnesty if they put their stolen millions into a soccer stadium here? Each could get a plot for his "retirement" home and his own stand, e.g,, the Mubarak stand, the Gaddafi stand, et. al., at the stadium nearby. The facility could be called "Despot Stadium at Autocrat Acres."

 

I don't think he meant what architects are actually paid.
I think he meant that the taxes that architects pay, coupled with the taxes that architects' insurance companies pay, could pay for a couple of stadiums.

 

I'm not into long-distance relationships.

[Yes, I know you B'more folks have had it that way for years. Can't say I'm inclined to swap with you.]

 

I like the idea. Though, I think I'd call the stadium The Home (of the) Despot Center.

 

you mean Baltimoresoccerfan?

 

Well Riggs bank always had Pinochet's money and hid it for him...

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

DCU gets a new pitch, nice.

 

I think we need to start at home - There are plenty of local politcians who need to park their loot in a stadium

 

If you don't want to become angry/depressed/resigned, etc, don't look at KC's gorgeous new stadium. Pretty hard to swallow that the Black and Red could skip town but they've got a gem of a stadium to play in. Ugh

 

That gem is truly outrageous.

Truly, truly, truly outrageous.

 

If it's any consolation (and it isn't), the game sucked.