Reported attendance at the Seattle/Calgary match last night: 150. Reported attendance at the opening game for the Calgary Outlaws of the Canadian Baseball League, going on at the same time: 1,727
Will Calgary last the season? They certainly can't pay their wage bills with "attendances" like this. Got to also wonder what's going through the minds of the people in Edmonton -- they banked most likely on having a local rival in Calgary...
Don't know what the deal is. They drew well by PDL standards when they were there, and after three games last year they were averaging 1,472.
Well after three games last year they were actually announcing their own attendance and basically it was triple the amount of fans that were actually in the stadium. This year the attendance is so low that they aren't announcing it so we are getting estimates which are probably pretty accurate. Some of the problems I've heard for their attendance is their silly 6.30 kickoff times because their stadium has no lights (and during the week people can't make it to the stadium on time so they don't go) plus their stadium isn't even half decent, and absolutely zero promotion. It doesn't help that they keep having their kickoff times switched around it seems for every game. If fans don't know when kickoff is it's hard to know when to show up. Still it's no excuse for the absolute horrible attendances they've been getting.
Maybe not, but all those things add up to chase away anyone but the 200 or so hardcores they apparently have.
I kind of figured that since I could not any crowd noise in the background while listening to the webcast.
Rhino announcer reports 8,057 in Syracuse tonight against Rochester. He says the crowd looks more like 4,000. The weather is not the greatest. Tomorrow night's game in Rochester should draw about 8-9,000 with rain expected all day.
If it's true (both the announced and the actual, without the inflation), then that big crowd on opening night looks more like a Cleveland Caps fluke than a harbinger that they're going to average 10k for the whole season.
syracuse attendence i was at the game in syracuse the weather was not bad at all no rain and the temps stayed in the 50's they announced over 8000 but the upper decks were nearly empty i would say the total ws closer to 6000-6500 i have been to baseball games there and it looked like a ball crowd of 6000. the weather for todays game in roch is calling for rain with occassionl downpours crowd will be hard pressed to make 8000 if the forcast holds.
Tonight in Rochester: 8,495 That's the paid figure, actual turnstile was about 6,000 (rain all day including a 45 minute delay)
rhino attendance the rhinos are averaging about 9200 so far this year weather has been bad for all 3 games has been cold and been raining last nights game was played in a down pour and cool temps advance ticket sales was almost 9000 once weather breaks and gets warmer attendance will go back up to 10-11000. still with the weather as bad as it was there was between 6-7000 in attendence
Sounders vs Baseball Going head to head against the Mariners didn't help, as this was the smallest crowd? of the year while Safeco was a sellout. I would have to believe there is some crossover between Mariner and Sounder fans. 2600 people look lost in Seahawk stadium
Noisy crowd that had lots of fun...but way too small for such a rivalry. The M's game didn't help, neither did the holiday. If we don't get our biggest crowd of the year June 7 (Saturday) against the ShiteCaps, then sound the alarms. By the way, the Sounders say "unofficially" that they expect around 10,000 fans for this Wednesday's exhibition with San Jose. It is "guaranteed win night" so if we lose...all get a free ticket to the June 7 Vancouver game. Well, that should boost it a bit. But, what if we win !
Supposedly Pittsburgh had 1,571 on Monday and El Paso had a big 525 on Sunday. I think I'm still missing a match or two, including Virginia Beach yesterday.