John Ertmann???? a google search for "major league soccer" brought this up: Equibase President Ertmann resigns after short stint in the story: who was this guy? i'd never heard his name before. pretty cool mls is mentioned at thoroughbreadtimes.com?
The Fire did draw just fine against an obviously less important game last weekend. Weeknight draws in Chicago have been, at times, among the poorest in the league. That's probably a more important factor. Obviously, it's not quite at the same time as the match and not nearly the same importance to city, but I hear a NY team is playing baseball tonight too.
True, but I think the Yankees going for their first World Series in two years (and 5th in 8 years) vs. the Cubs going for their first in 58 years wouldn't have quite the same drain on attendance. Maybe all things considered, it balances out in the end.
I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who wouldn't call bullsh!t on this. I guess your ridiculous prediction never has to be tested, huh?
This idea would work only if we had a National Stadium(well not only) . Only way to be done is if followes the same lines as the MLS Cup. Select a sight well in advance and promote it, sell tickets a year in advance, make it a showcase, a soccer celebration. Could be given to a city with a good track record for big events, not necessarely MLS cities. Portland might work, they love their soccer, how about St Louis next year and so on. Cities would have to bid for it and a major sponsor be involved of course.
Just wanted to admit when I'm wrong. Maybe the huge crowd last night should have been catching a glimpse of MLS teams, though the game itself was so tepid that I don't know if it would have been a good advertisement.
it's a title game... teams are going to do everything they can to not make a costly mistake it's not going to be the prettiest soccer you see as for the talk of chicago not having a crowd for yesterday's match... that's *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#... they specifically set up a match to coincide with the title game to give it a crowd that's called being smart and good business too bad the ussf isn't about that sort of thing... they see no reason to try and attract new mls fans... which there would be tons of potential new mls fans at the mex-uru match bad, bad move by ussf put it like this... the match yesterday would have out-drawn the cubs game think about that