Revolution Stadium Groundbreaking "12-24 months" Part VII

You're selling AEG's arena and stadium portfolio WAY short. AEG owns and/or manages the day-to-day operations of at least 35 arenas and 6 stadiums worldwide, not including the 5 arenas and 4 stadiums that are either under construction, or in development.

 

PAIASB

 

Bolding my part. I do agree with the potential factor in the roster. But we've been saying we have more potential all season long. It's making me wonder if Heaps is to blame for not culturing it properly.

 

Oh yea..
No stadium news before Dec 21, 2012...Doom-Gloom-Doom

But Bilello is in Columbus but not sure if for the MLS Summit. I had asked him on twitter who was going, if anyone..and he never answered. Gee, wonder why!? LOL

But, then he tweeted that he was going to the USA-JAM game..so I'm assuming he's going to the Summit..I think..I guess! Wonder if Lard Arse is going too..she can tweet that she forgot her blow dryer or granny panties or something! Total waste of air!

 

Why would AEG take on capital costs of the stadium but rent it out for $1?

Rich people don't get rich by cutting checks.

 

i want him gone

 

Columbus dropping hints that they are already interested in a new downtown SSS, could they lap us?

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2012/09/13/scoring-goals.html

 

He was being sarcastic and snarky.

 

Using the 15 of 19 equation, obviously DC, New England and Chivas are not playing in their own SSS (although Chivas play in a good stadium, but they just don't own it). So are they counting Vancouver or Seattle on the "dark side?" Seattle, technically, is in the same situation we are--playing in a stadium built for the NFL team, but that is the only thing they have in common.

 

My guess is he is counting Chivas as having an SSS and NE, DC, Vancouver, and Seattle as those without

 

Yeah, Chivas are playing in an "appropriately sized" stadium, but since they are paying rent, they aren't in the same situation as Chicago or Dallas or most of the other teams. Seattle are also in a stadium appropriate for their average crowds. I don't know enough about Vancouver, but I beleive with the lower bowl and that "roof," they come reasonably close to filling the lower bowl on average.

So that leaves us and DC United as the only teams playing in way-too-big stadiums built for other sports.

 

I have a problem with DCU. Is RFK that much of a mess, that their attendance after 4 MLS Cups, 4 Supporter's Shields and a CONCACAF Championship, cause them to have poor attendance numbers? Would have thought by now they'd be averaging 30k?
no?

 

a gift from the "non-absentee owners of Man City" - I'm actually quite content that all those hundreds of thousands of miles I've driven in my lifetime helped fund this for the great $hitty of Manchester. So glad it didn't go to building wells for clean drinking water in the Sudan!!

City Training Facilities Porn

 

Well RFK stadium is condemned - it's literally falling down around them. That place is a shithole. Combine an ancient facility with the fact it's in a tough area (Herndon, VA) and you get their less than impressive attendance results.

 

The entirety of RFK smells like a giant deep-fryer that desperately needs an oil change (if you don't believe me, ask the rats!).

 

When will the Revs get a new stadium? There haven't been any news or anything.... Any sources? I really want this team to get a new stadium!

 

You and everyone else, my Neofyte Amigo. But there hasn't been any news. But don't despair, we'll get a new batch of lies next time they want STHs to re-up

 

You must stop this incessant complaining and negativity! How are we supposed to nurture fans to believing that after 17years Kraft is always right!
The process may seem hopeless and a never ending abyss of promises, lies and afterthoughts! But, we must remain strong and have faith...
...Perhaps if the pats go on a season long losing streak and they lose say 1k STH, perhaps that will stir Mr. Bob Almighty to look to the Revs..

Who am I kidding..continue with the gloom. =)

REVS SSS - not happenin

 

RFK is in Virginia? Last time I was there it was right in the center of the city, right on a Metro line. Yeah, the area is a bit dodgy like lots of areas of DC, but if they were to build a new replica of any of about half the stadiums in the league right next door, they would be more than fine.

The other point is, no matter how bad things are in DC, who are we kidding? 5 years from now, they will be well on their way to having a nice new stadium and we won't. We will still be listening go Billelo spout his usual pathetic mewlings that "someday" we "hope" to "have an announcement" in the "near future" regarding "progress" on the new stadium in the "Greater Boston and New England" area.

 

Agreed, but the HARDCORE fans really need to rally and demand news on the issue. Make pages to demand it. Ask the ownership. Talk to the news media. Whatever. Searching "New England Revolution New Stadium" will get you news that are about a couple years old. There are no recent news on it. I am new to the sport and I think the Revolution is so far behind in the league and in the Boston sports market. The Revs have no media attention whatsoever. I believe that they deserve more attention than what they get in our area regardless of whether they are doing horrible or not.

 

They need more attention because of how horrible they are at doing things.

 

This could be interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/MLS/comments/101si9/i_am_chris_schlosser_general_manager_mls_digital/ Brian Bilello to do a reddit Ask Me Anything

 

I could live with Columbus building ANOTHER SSS Stadium before the Revs and DCU... but please, please, puh-lease, don't let Chivas USA get a deal done (downtown LA on the campus and in the shadows of the Coliseum) before the Revs... all hope (and credibility) might be lost...

 

Sorry to disappoint you, but Los Goat-os just got new owners, so I can see them perhaps putting the stadium thing on the front burner more so than the others. The team can't really piddle along as the second fiddle to the Galaxy forever, and it doesn't help to be a tenant in their stadium either. If they built either downtown or even out in a place like the Inland Empire (think Lawn Guylind on steroids), that would be a good start to forging an identity of their own.

I can see DC eventually pulling something together in the next couple of years (because time really is ticking at RFK). It would be particularly galling (but a good thing for everyone but us) if Columbus did build a new, nicer stadium downtown. As good as it would be in the big picture, that would really make me sick to my stomach--a so-called Small Market team who built not one, but TWO stadiums while we are still playing in an massive, oversized stadium with plastic grass built for another sport.

We started out in the top third of the league in terms of attendance, business generated and overall profile. Look at us now, when teams we used to make fun of have bypassed us, and now one is going to completely lap us. It might not be a question of whether we will be the last MLS team to have an appropriate stadium, it will be a question of which teams build their second-generation stadium before we build our first. It will take 20-30 years for some of these places to become obsolete, so the timing is propbably just about right.