Crew to Austin in 2019..(Maybe)

Salacious Bum · Oct 17, 2017

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I hope all of you have some sort of bright spot in your lives that you can focus on as you process this loss.
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We adopted two crew cats this year, Max and Tito. May they live long and never be MLS fans.

puttputtfc · Oct 17, 2017

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I hope all of you have some sort of bright spot in your lives that you can focus on as you process this loss.
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If it makes you feel better I just got some great news. My friend found out she's cancer free today. ******** you breast cancer and ******** you MLS.

TKyle · Oct 17, 2017

puttputtfc · Oct 17, 2017

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We adopted two crew cats this year, Max and Tito. May they live long and never be MLS fans.
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Orange tabbies are the best.

Salacious Bum · Oct 17, 2017

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Orange tabbies are the best.
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Agreed, buddy.

Sagz · Oct 17, 2017

I’d give the likelihood of the Columbus Crew moving to Austin at no better than a 50-50 shot, but Circuit of the Americas chairman and soccer advocate Bobby Epstein said Columbus has offered the team guaranteed sponsorship money to stay put. “I don’t think it’s realistic to do here,” Epstein told me, “but it’d be great for Austin.” He believes Crew owner Anthony Precourt wants to sell the team and could probably sell it for at least 50-percent profit. Epstein said the Crew’s first choice of a site would be the Butler Shores at Town Lake Metro Park, about 12 1/2 acres of city-owned land west of Zach Theatre currently used as baseball and softball fields, but he wonders about the traffic clog on Lamar Blvd. and the lack of parking. “But if they’re willing to build a major stadium here with private money, that’d be great for the city,” he said. The viability of an MLS club becoming our first pro franchise does make some sense because Precourt desperately wants to relocate here, he insists a new stadium (for at least $130 million) would be publicly financed and involve zero tax dollars, and the University of Texas is not only not fighting the possibility (unlike in previous decades) but says any problems of sharing UT’s Mike Myers Stadium are “not insurmountable.” I’m not seeing a downtown site, however. “I think there is a future for soccer here,” said Epstein, who is planning to build a smaller soccer stadium at COTA for a USL franchise. But, if the Crew relocates here, he mused, “There might be a city in Ohio that wants a USL team.”
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TKyle · Oct 17, 2017

I spent all day trying to find the time to work in reading through this whole thread before posting.
Where to start.
Gutted.
I worried this day might come—once all the expansion spots were taken and a rich owner would approach He Who Shall Not Be Named, who would sell the team and off it would go to who knows where.
As it turns out HWSNBN had this planned all along.
He’s poisoned the well. Who will want to be a sponsor of this team next year? Who wants to go see a team that’s threatened leaving in a year? Might as well move now.
HWSNBN has not played his cards well. Per Dandammany (I know I got your name wrong), the local owners’ group has no interest in working with him. He hasn’t got the funding set up in Austin yet. This could all fall down like a house of cards for him. He deserves it.

mateo319 · Oct 17, 2017

Where is that quote from?

CybrSlydr · Oct 17, 2017

Jesus Christ. Steal the team, relocate AND build it on a street named LAMAR???

There is no justice in this world. None.

Big J 0526 · Oct 17, 2017

Ch(Elsey) said: ↑

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Does Jameson count?

TKyle · Oct 17, 2017

I moved back to Ohio in ‘99 and went to the first ever game at Crew Stadium. Drove up from Dayton multiple times. Went to more games when moved to C-bus in ‘01. Went multiple times with different friend groups and family. Started taking my kids.
I tried to explain this to my young son today. You could see the realization of loss set in. He started to cry.
This is worse than when the Browns moved. At least the NFL had the fans’ backs. Garber has stabbed us in our back.
I went to all 4 dos-a-cero games. Only missed 2 USMNT games here ever.
They will never come back.

lncolnpk · Oct 17, 2017

<---------- Pains me to do this, but what @aprecourt is doing is wrong. If you don't like what you bought, then sell locally. #unite4crew
— peter wilt (@PeterWilt1) October 17, 2017

TKyle · Oct 17, 2017

I’m trying really hard to see a glimmer of hope. I’ve heard Garber wants to step down. Perhaps the local owners’ group previously mentioned could put a stadium plan together and the new commissioner can review it. That is the bargaining phase of my grief.
A NASL or USL team won’t be the same.

TKyle · Oct 17, 2017

Meanwhile, what happens to the stadium? HWSNBN owns it. Will he just let it dilapidate away like the old Continent?
And what about Mapfre, who shelled out a lot of dough to put their name on it?

Robbo Crewfan · Oct 17, 2017

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Loney's piece is good--but he misses the point that this may well have been orchestrated by Garber. Because it makes no financial sense to move a team while there are a ton of expansion fees to be collected. Unless you really want FC Cincy in the league.
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And FC Cincy is not going to get a ********ing new stadium, the County Commissioners just told the team to go suck off Mike Brown and hope he waives the revenue streams for soccer games at Paul Brown Stadium.
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Exactly -- thanks to the PBS/Bengals debacle, a publicly financed sports stadium in Hamilton county, OH has about as much chance of success these days as Harvey Weinstein has of being named "Person of the Year" by Ms Magazine.

Any County Trustee who supported it would basically be declaring "I never want to hold a public office in southwest Ohio ever again."

Sure, they could try to go to one of the No KY counties -- but I doubt that "FC Cincinnati located in Kentucky" would gather the same fan base...

Ch(Elsey) · Oct 17, 2017

I love cats. I love hearing stories of human beings beating cancer.

As for me, I am watching the Cavs with my two little ones and my husband tonight.

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I'm coming back next spring for my 40th birthday to see what we built one last time. To show my kids where Daddy made some of his most important friendships. To show my friends how much I love them all. But when I walk out of that stadium for the last time next April, I'm leaving any thoughts or cares about Major League Soccer there in the stadium when I leave. I will lay my black and gold scarf at the feet of Lamar Hunt's statue and I will be set free.
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I hope to hear when (if) many of you make your pilgrimages back next year.

It is like when cousins travel back for a funeral. It will be good to see each of you, but the circumstance will not be the best.

athletics68 · Oct 17, 2017

KC96 said: ↑

I think you read the intent of my post wrong (and that's OK, this is "angry time" for all MLS fans).

Columbus and Lamar Hunt (RIP) saved the whole league in 1999 with the SSS stadium in Columbus.

I have loved Lamar (he owned KC too), and Columbus even more since then, because without that stadium, none of us would have an MLS team to cheer for today.

Columbus being the first franchise, but also being a "mid market town", also gave me hope in 1996 that small market teams like KC would be secure in MLS.

Alas, todays CLB announcement shatters that illusion permanently for me, and I know that some day KC will also be moved. Today makes me rethink my MLS STH support and investment.

Peace.
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Welcome to how every San Jose Earthquakes fan has felt since 2005...

MLS is no better than the NFL, NBA or NHL. Throw in the US WC failure...

Sagz · Oct 17, 2017

mateo319 said: ↑

Where is that quote from?
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If you were referring to my quote it came from austin news: http://www.mystatesman.com/sports/b...bs-and-pro-pro-soccer/RIfpsIlcY0Zhkxskp9x74M/

AmyG · Oct 17, 2017

puttputtfc said: ↑

If he has a phone he probably knows. We're all grumpy today.
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He didn't have his phone with him at school and hadn't heard. I thought it was rough having to tell my Ethan Finlay-loving 12 year old daughter a few months ago that Finlay had been sent to Minnesota, but seeing the devastated look on my son's face today when I broke the news was heartbreaking. He's old enough to understand how the fans have been duped and feels incredibly betrayed, just like the rest of us.

Off for an evening of whiskey and cats. Thanks again for providing a place for Crew fans to vent and share.

Big Strong Patrick · Oct 17, 2017

I heard Willy Nelson's Always On My Mind at dinner tonight, it made me think of saying goodbye to The Crew.

Grouchy · Oct 17, 2017

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Off for an evening of whiskey and cats
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My thoughts exactly.

Fifth of Jack and four felines all jockeying for position on the same laptop keyboard.

Raises glasdsssssdsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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Jamooky · Oct 17, 2017

I've been through this with the Browns. 12 year old me handled that with anger. It seems 35 me is handling this with sadness.

kgilbert78 · Oct 17, 2017

Ch(Elsey) said: ↑

I hope all of you have some sort of bright spot in your lives that you can focus on as you process this loss.
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My new kitten.... Bear. Just walked right into our house last Tuesday.

KHT_Crew · Oct 17, 2017

CybrSlydr · Oct 17, 2017

So how in the world can we show the players/staff our support as supporters but ensure Precum doesn't get one single red nickel?