Stadium News, Speculation & Possible Truthiness XXVII: This time with less Zzzzzzzzz

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  1. ImNumberTen

    ImNumberTen Member+

    Oct 4, 2007
    Washington, DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I would take RFK any day over Olympic Stadium.

    Now go away.
     
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  2. Cavan9

    Cavan9 Member

    Nov 16, 2011
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Hear Hear! The field is very well-manicured grass. That's reason enough to prefer it to Stade Olympique. Now a renovated Stade Saputo is another story...
     
  3. mcontento

    mcontento Member

    Jun 26, 2000
    Catalina Wine Mixer
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Isn't a shithole a great monument for a shithead politician?
     
  4. The Stever

    The Stever Member

    Dec 4, 2003
    Ah, yes, Olympic Stadium... memories of Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Warren Cromartie, Tim Wallach, Gary Carter, Dennis Martinez, Dick Williams, Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Tim Raines and Andre Dawson... and a retractible roof that wasn't... a first for both the engineered intent and the reality of said debacle... and for those of us old enough to remember: a 50-yd blast by the Chicago Sting's Ingo Peter (GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLL!) vs. Le Manic de Montreal.

    Here's another crazy idea (it just might take one to get this deal done)... I say crazy because it became REALITY in Chicago: Gut the interior, keep an exterior wall or two... and keep RFK... (yes, I realize this increases the cost about three-fold, but it's not my money).
     
  5. stangspritzring

    stangspritzring Member+

    Apr 3, 2006
    NorMD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Perhaps if we employed a number of dirigibles, and a system of pulleys and levers....
     
  6. Funkfoot

    Funkfoot Member+

    May 18, 2002
    New Orleans, LA
    And don't forget the cost of relocating the racoons.

    Yeah, but "Bush" anything is a bad name for a stadium, it just invites those "bush league" comments. And Reagan has enough stuff named after him already.
     
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  7. Tweaked

    Tweaked Member

    Jan 30, 2003
    The Hill
    Clinton Field...new promotion, Intern night :cool:
     
  8. Untroubled by Reason

    Dec 5, 2007
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Free cigars for the first 5000!
     
  9. nobletea

    nobletea Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 29, 2004
    HarCo
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

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  10. Jester64

    Jester64 Member

    Sep 12, 2003
    Takoma Park
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Bruce Jenner, Edwin Moses, Alberto Juantorena, Lasse Viren
     
  11. EdTheRed

    EdTheRed Member+

    Feb 6, 2001
    Loose On The Town
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Cook Islands
    Man...I really wish I just remembered Bruce Jenner for winning the decathlon and getting his pre-surgical mug onto Wheaties boxes...:(
     
  12. Hedbal

    Hedbal Member+

    Jul 31, 2000
    DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And Lasse Viren! Didn't he invent blood doping?
     
  13. QS Rez

    QS Rez Member

    Jul 28, 2007
    TFW
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    At the risk of veering this tightly policed thread off-topic I was in the room as my wife turned on some Kardashian product. I looked up and saw Bruce's surgically hideous face. I LITERALLY had no idea that he was the paterfamilias of that clown show. :confused:

    Of course, the best thing that about being old is you stop caring about how out of touch you are. In my mind Bruce Jenner is still thundering along in the decathlon 1500m ... and I am still rocking out to Van Halen and The Cars in my Chrysler Laser (94 hp? ... seemed like at least 100!).

    Of course I didn't fall for soccer until later (and my car is now a 3-series BMW) so not all change is bad.

    Back to your regularly scheduled discussions of the construction progress at Gravelly Point.
     
  14. Darth Norteño

    Darth Norteño With Buddha In My Fists

    The Arsenal
    Wales
    Dec 9, 2003
    laceyforest.arl.va
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Wales
    Yeah, it's just an awful place. It's only hosted three MLS Cup finals, group stage matches for the Atlanta Games in 1996, more US mens' and womens' competitive matches and friendlies than I can remember, and only the greatest goddamn club in the Americas and their trophy case. :rolleyes:

    Not to mention a certain baseball team that I wish you a-holes would take back. :mad:
     
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  15. Jester64

    Jester64 Member

    Sep 12, 2003
    Takoma Park
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [FONT=&quot]People say you're old, and outdated: but they still love you!

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    [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Space Shuttle Discovery tips a wing to RFK Stadium on the final flight around DC before retiring to the Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian Museum.
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  16. Sandon Mibut

    Sandon Mibut Member+

    Feb 13, 2001
    Hey, that baseball team is 9-3 and in first place. We need all the winning teams we can get in this city!
     
  17. Potowmack

    Potowmack Member+

    Apr 2, 2010
    Washington, DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Don't get him started. I think Ryan Zimmerman stole his wife or something.
     
  18. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    No, just our stadium-related goodwill.
     
  19. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    Even with $2 tickets (not including fees), it was pretty lonely out there last night. There weren't even many Houston fans.

    Of course it was still likely double the attendance United will get tonight...
     
  20. HailtotheKing

    HailtotheKing Member+

    San Antonio FC
    United States
    Dec 1, 2008
    TEXAS
    Club:
    San Antonio Scorpions FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    ... referring to ?
     
  21. Sandon Mibut

    Sandon Mibut Member+

    Feb 13, 2001
    The Nats announced14,520 Wednesday night, DCU claimed 10,135.

    I suspect neither was being completely honest.
     
  22. Potowmack

    Potowmack Member+

    Apr 2, 2010
    Washington, DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    They might have been if they were talking about tickets sold, rather than actual attendance at the stadium.

    If the Nats keep playing well, their attendance numbers will go up substantially once the weather improves.
     
  23. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    The Wizards number was barely behind the Nats number: 14,141
     
  24. AlecW81

    AlecW81 Member

    Oct 20, 2005
    Durham, NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The supporters group stand at the new stadium had better be named in Chico's honor.
     
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  25. NattyBo

    NattyBo Member+

    Apr 30, 2004
    Nunya
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Riz was saying the same thing...would be an amazing gesture...
     

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