These teams get bumps from time to time but is it sustained? That’s the hard part. Houston was going great with their new stadium and everything but when the team went south and the new stadium smell sore off, not so much. Chicago - Schweinsteiger! DCU - Wayne Rooney! There’s a little bump and then it’s gone.
https://www.newyorkredbulls.com/new...r-as-lead-architectural-designer-for-training New York Red Bulls announced today that Gensler, a global architecture, design and planning firm, would serve as the lead architectural designer for its Training Complex in Morris Township, NJ. They will guide all architectural and design planning for the future state-of-the-art facility.
Meanwhile in San Jose, we should know on the feasibility of the fairgrounds for a training facility, in a few months. Hopefully Quakes don’t have all their eggs in this one basket.
So is Red Bull Arena. But, distance wise, it's like putting the Quakes training facility in Livermore. 59 years ago it was all farmland (kinda like San Jose was fruit trees). Fun fact... I lived ages 1-6 in Hackettsown, NJ about 20 miles away from the new Red Bulls training facility location in Morris Town. Morris Town had the only McDonalds around (the only fast food at the time) and my family would make the trip once or twice a month in our Brady Bunch mobile, and eat in the car in the parking lot. I have stronger memories of the soft serve there (I remember a neapolitan cone) than any other food during that time. For you youngins... this is a Brady Bunch mobile:
Having five kids in the family growing up, we had the obligatory station wagons as well, the last one having the three rows of seats, with the very back row facing the rear window.
The back row facing the rear window was classic. Fun for kids because you felt like you had your own little world back there, backs to the adults and the rest of the riff-raff. I only know because some friends had one. We were a smaller family with just a ridiculously long sedan with fins and with front and back seats and sometimes ridiculous colors (we had a Plymouth for a while that was some kind of salmon color ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).
We drove cross country (Hackettstown to San Ramon) with 4 people, a dog, cat and a goldfish in that car.
I was so envious of kids whose families had those station wagons. It was a dream come true when I finally got to ride in the back seat of one.
Hey guys! Super lurker emerging from the shadows. Joined when we got the team back and honestly forgot about this site for a long while. Middling + COVID + baby would do that. Going to host a bunch of friends at a Quakes game birthday field level. I'm loving the upgrades at coach and roster. Just want to point out that a semi-decent team is a win for us casual fans. I'm looking forward to showing these people how much more fun this is compared to getting sun baked at a Niner game.
You're right, @Damo9000! Thanks for the reality check and hope you have a very fun outing with your friends. It's not clear whose birthday you're celebrating, but if it's yours, happy birthday too!
“NEWS: PayPal Park to Host International Friendly Between Guatemala and Panama on March 12” (SJEarthquakes.com - Tuesday, 2/7/23) GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
Who wants to create a betting pool? We can bet on things like the minute the first gun shot will be heard or how many people will be arrested after the game.
same here, 5 kids…we had the Country Squire station wagon…our greatest joy was folding all the seats down in back… piling in and asking Dad to drive crazy behind the La Pala shopping center…he’d slalom the backside parking lot and we’d roll around, back and forth crashing into each other …laughing hysterically the whole time…better than any amusement park ride ever…haha.
I was thinking about that - that was pre-seat belt days. I remember we used to sometimes actually stand up on the floor of the rear seat compartment while our parents were driving. And those reverse seats on the back of station wagons, if you got rear-ended, wouldn't you go through the back windshield?
Was that the place between Mckee and Alum Rock? My wife remembers it, since she has lived here longer than I, but, it was gone by the time I moved into the area. And if parents did that these days, someone would video it, it would go viral, and the dad would be arrested for child endangerment.