These are supposed to be the goals in Giants Stadium for the new season. http://www.kwikgoal.com/scripts/runisa.dll?m2.66314:gp:239325.9004:16000+product/display+50 I am having trouble linking it up, if someone could help.....Anyway, it is the World Cup style box goal.....
I always wondered why the Metros never used the box goals? I understand the easier setup of the H.S. crap they had up, but how hard can these be to setup? Even more than a half empty 80K seater stadium, I always thought those cheap goals made us look bush league.
The reason is simple....Giants Stadium would not allow it....with the box goal, there are 2 ft. ground sleeves that are cemented into the ground, and the goals go into them....The other goals are anchored with pegs, so it is easy to take them up and cover the hole left from the pegs than it is to install the sleeves.....When you have a system where grass trays are being brought in and out, it is hard to keep the sleeves from shifting...
Makes sense. I would think it would be the same with the football goal posts too then? IIRC, those goals were in for parts of previous years.
They were in for one season (I think it was '99), but the GS crew didn't want them anymore....in the end, the NJSEA had screwed the Metro out of the nicer looking goals....
but why didn't they leep using the goals from tyhe 94 World Cup? They weren't anchored down by extra poles (the net was held up by two pols extended from the crossbar If I recall). And there are temporary box goals some German teams use..
B/c Kwik Goal is the Official Supplier, meaning that the goals from '94 could not be used (Not Kwik Goal goals).... To answer Matt in the Hat, no all 10 teams will not have these goals.....Columubus, Los Angeles, and the Metro may be the only 3.... The clubs and facilities decide which goals are used, and many football teams and/or facilities will not allow the box style goals....
Good! I always thought that these goals were much classier. I think they used the box goals in 2000 as well.
Quite right. If you also recall the round of 16 match between Bulgaria and Mexico was briefly held up when one of the Mexican players fell into the goal and snapped the support holding the net up.
the nets should be black, so that in the unlikely event that a goal that's a goal looks like it went outside because of a ripped net and replays will clear show that it went through
San Jose, who plays in Spartan Stadium, also uses this style of goal and has been for a few seasons now. So that would make 4 out of the 10 clubs.