Review: 2019 Audi Field Experiences

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  1. seanT

    seanT Member

    Feb 15, 2000
    Washington, DC
    I believe we have done at least 3 anniversary games since '96!
     
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  2. StevenPrada

    StevenPrada Member

    Jan 26, 2001
    Yes on the Audi Field taxi - I should have been clear that I was only referring to the Wharf taxi. I didn't realize about the schedule. I usually take it one way when I do. I live in Arlington, so I meet a friend in Old Town, go to game, then go home by metro.
     
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  3. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #353 fatbastard, May 3, 2019
    Last edited: May 3, 2019
    Sorry, don't have the article link (copied from email), but I'm sure it's easy enough to find to read the entire thing.....
    (edit: found it elsewhere: https://www.bizjournals.com/washing...ted-picks-developer-for-site-adjacent-to.html )

    By Daniel J. Sernovitz – Staff Reporter, Washington Business Journal

    May 2, 2019, 1:24pm EDT Updated 3 hours ago

    D.C. United has selected PN Hoffman to remake a pair of sites at the foot of Audi Field in Buzzard Point, setting the stage for additional street-level activity at the foot of the 20,000-seat stadium.

    The District's Major League Soccer franchise has tapped Hoffman to take on the project, final details of which are still being ironed out, according to a source familiar with the situation. Hoffman emerged as the winning bidder from what as said to be a short listincluding Hines, Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) and CordishCos. The District-based developer won out for several reasons including its portfolio of projects, notably its role as co-developer of The Wharf on D.C.'s Southwest Waterfront not far from the soccer stadium.

    The site includes the 2-acre Parcel B, which could potentially support up to 600,000 square feet of commercial development or mixed-uses, and a smaller Parcel C, with a land area of about 10,000 square feet. Conceptually, Hoffman's project is slated to include some sort of entertainment concept, possibly a sports bar with a stage for live music, with residential or maybe a hotel above it.

    Representatives for the team and Hoffman declined to comment.
     
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  4. pr0ner

    pr0ner Member+

    Jan 13, 2007
    Alexandria, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Sportsbook?
     
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  5. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    Where is the sports book going to be?
     
  6. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    Damn walking away for donuts.
     
  7. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I thought the betting place was going to be INSIDE the stadium (more legal there than on the street for some reason, I think)
     
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  8. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
     
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  9. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    An external team logo...
     
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  10. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
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    What's actually slightly more interesting to me is another cheap fix in this photo. On both sides of the field level suites, covered areas have been installed. Now less of the blank grey walls are visible and the area is likely being sold like a cheap suite. DC United is written on the roofs of these areas.Not in Goff's photo is the grey tarp to block the Sun closest to the north side has a DC United logo on the exterior.
     
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  11. Eastern Bear

    Eastern Bear Member+

    Feb 27, 1999
    Great Falls, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    How very... Crew Stadium of them.
     
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  12. D C B 2 3

    D C B 2 3 Member+

    Nov 18, 2007
    VA
    I traded in all of my Wednesday games for the rest of the season. I'm cashing it all in for one game in the all inlcusive seats with the family. I just can't do those 8pms on a weekday...I can't do the Sunday 7pm either it seems since I traded in yesterday as well.

    This change in when the games are scheduled will likely impact whether I bother to get a season tic after this season.
     
  13. John L

    John L Member+

    Sep 20, 2003
    Alexandria, VA

    Blame TV money. Blame DC United management for being in a pro league that depends on TV money. Blame MLS for needing TV money and will schedule games WHENEVER the TV execs say so.
     
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  14. pr0ner

    pr0ner Member+

    Jan 13, 2007
    Alexandria, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So you're saying MLS is like England?
     
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  15. PSURoss

    PSURoss Member+

    Sep 30, 2002
    DC Burbs
    Wow ... this could get interesting to see if anyone picks up that gauntlet. TV money drives everything, I wanna say that TV money in England is greater than it is for NFL is here.

    My bigger gripe on game times is that the dammed ticket says 7 or 8 and then kick off isn't for another 15-20 or 25 minutes after the stated time. I am not a fan of the 8PM games and I've sold off or returned the mid-week games that fall during the school year, but to some degree, I've got to live with the Sunday night games or my kids would get to like 5 games a year and thats not really the point of our STM experience. I know that we're lucky to be in a place where we're a TV draw, but its a bit of pain, especially since there might only be 1 day game left on the home schedule this season, the closer against Borussia Cincy Gladbach.
     
  16. JayRockers!

    JayRockers! Member+

    Aug 4, 2001
    Seems like you and not too many others can as well.

    12,521. The bloom is off the rose. Quite frankly I’m priced out and inconveniced out of attendance at AF, and it looks like many others are as well.

    When winning and Wayne Rooney fail to improve upon RFK’s numbers on a consistent basis, people will look to weather and scheduling for excuses. Well those may be issues, but they are ancillary. SKC has no problem filling up their home park week in, week out. We’re doing Colorado on St. Patrick’s Day numbers. Red Bull numbers. Columbus numbers. Washington really just isn’t the soccer market it likes to think it is, at the prices people want it to be.

    A roof might have spared the blushes on national television last night.

    Thx,

    Jay!
     
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  17. Section 107

    Section 107 Member+

    DCU
    United States
    Jul 18, 2018
    ironically, these jury-rigged seats have better weather protection than the field suites and the really expensive field level seats on the opposite side....
     
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  18. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    Prices and quality of the product, by that I mean AF not on the field.

    Pain in the a$$ to get to, I have been taking the train.
    Meh, AF is nothing special.
    Digital tickets, some of us don't like that. Some do but some don't.
    Overpriced, poor food choices.
    Team store, meh. Nothing special.
    I waited 22 years for this??????
     
  19. pats1237

    pats1237 Member

    Oct 28, 2006
    The District
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Attendance was pretty good until the last 2 games. Generally at least 17,000 even for that Tuesday match against Montreal. Crowd for Columbus was a bit underwhelming, and then terrible last night along with bad weather. We'll see if it's a trend.
     
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  20. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    With attendance last night, lines at concessions were short enough for me to buy food at Audi Field for the first time this year.
     
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  21. seanT

    seanT Member

    Feb 15, 2000
    Washington, DC
    I wouldn't put too much stock in last night as an indicator. A mothers day night game was never gonna draw well, even without the crappy weather.
     
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  22. fairfax4dc

    fairfax4dc Member+

    Dec 5, 2008
    Fairfax, Va
    If I'm not mistaken most of the posters complaining about the pooer attendance last night didn't attend themselves. Let's review the issues:
    - inadequate roofing: fair enough, until the club springs for roofing attendance will suffer on rainy nights.
    - high concession prices: Nobody's making you buy. Stop at McDonalds on the way in if you want to eat cheap, and knock back a couple of minis just before entry if you don't want to spend a lot on alcohol.
    - 8:00 start time: Go to a Nats game and see how many young kids are there at 10:00 and later.
    - Location: A 2/3 mile walk gets you to the metro or to relatively cheap parking and easy access to and from Northern Virginia. My travel time to Audi is no longer than to RFK, and sometimes less. It is tougher if you can't walk 2/3 mile. But that ideal site that sits next to a metro stop ans surrounded by thousands of prking spaces has always been completely unrealistic.
     
  23. JayRockers!

    JayRockers! Member+

    Aug 4, 2001
    Millennials see their moms every day, since most are still living at home. Or they could Facebook them from the stands, just like every other game. Atlanta could manage 50K more than DC managed to announce, and you usually take mom out to brunch, not a late dinner on a school night. Weather, date and time are a poor excuse for the sales team not to get people in those seats. Now if the issue is that they sold lots of seats to ghost brokers who won’t eat it for the sake of not sitting on inventory, that’s their problem. Work it out.

    I have yet to go to AF for most, if not all of the reasons above. And so have many others. Include in those reasons the way you can’t walk up and buy a ticket in the supporters section, the insane pricing of some of the seats (honestly, pricing MLS games like they are NHL games is just stupid) and the generaly shitty way the team treated long-time supporters and the supporters groups during the migration.

    It’s clear DCU didn’t know their market and just doesn’t care to try to bring anyone from outside their focus-grouped target audience (back) into the fold.

    Thx,

    Jay!
     
  24. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    In another thread, I said in year's past the team never would have had a home game on Mother's Day or Easter.
     
  25. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
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