losin to f#ckin chivas, hope petke shoves a can up their *%^$*$^&*(&^9 and looking at the broadcast i notice there was more people on the camera side then seen opposite for what its worth. they have to get another stadium, regardless of everything else going on or not. something smaller, somewhere northwest.
I can certainly enjoy any game of soccer, but from my TV vantage, the Seattle game was FAR more interesting that watching Chivas USA.
I found NASL attendances on reddit for this week, in case anyone is interested: | Home Team | Away Team | Attendance | :--:|:--:|:--|:--|:--|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--: [](/COS) New York Cosmos | [](/SAS) San Antonio Scorpions | 6,852 | [](/CAR) Carolina RailHawks | [](/MIN) Minnesota United | 5,201 | [](/ATL) Atlanta Silverbacks | [](/FTL) Fort Lauderdale Strikers | 3,822 | [](/TBR) Tampa Bay Rowdies | [](/FCE) FC Edmonton | 3,118 | Cosmos especially has predictably turned down to more expected levels.
Maybe someone could start a minor league baseball team in Brooklyn and call it the Trolley Dodgers. It would be just like the old days. Hire Carl Erskine. Yeah, that a pretty stupid idea, too.
Add me to that list. As a neutral, a large and/or vocal crowd adds to my enjoyment of a game. As a result, there are two or three teams I seldom/never watch when they play at home. Fortunately, that number is down from a few years ago.
I find it a bit disappointing that the highest non-doubleheader attendance ever will probably forever be the Galaxy's first game... Stadium trends seem to point to smaller stadiums, and we really don't have many teams with the capability to beat this record. I believe the only team that can beat that record is if New England ever sells out Gillette for whatever reason.
It's just a welcome return to reality. For some, the magic of the Cosmos name was going to be enough to break attendance records for D2 and beyond and upset the foundations of US soccer culture. They're doing fine as a D2 club - not exceptionally, but just fine.
How so? MLS stadiums are being built in the 18k-25k seat range and the only teams in larger stadiums are NE and Seattle and neither one is large enough..
Theoretically, another expansion team could come in using an NFL stadium, or a current team could use a local large stadium for a one-off event.
I think that as more MLS teams start approaching their current capacities we'll start to see a new round of "event" games in larger venues like the ones the Quakes have been staging at Stanford. Like the current Stanford games or the ones Montreal stages at Olympic Stadium, these will be both ways to build excitement and bring in extra revenue and a means for assessing whether support might be there for expanding permanent venues or building new ones. If this comes to pass in a few places around the league, it seems like eventually that 1996 record's going to have to fall, especially given how close we're already coming. A lot can happen in a decade. What if the US wins the next World Cup, or comes close? What if we somehow end up with the Qatari World Cup? What if NYCFC is a huge, paradigm-changing success? I just don't see why the current status quo should be accepted as the be-all and end-all...would anyone ten years ago have believed that KC would be among the league's attendance leaders? Or that a club in Seattle would be drawing 65k+ to a mid-season regular-season game?
Capacity at Gillette is 68,756. They do not go over that capacity for NFL games which they easily could if they had SRO tickets. So unless they change their policy, Gillette can't beat that Rose Bowl number either.