Wednesday night game in Kansas City during the school year. The good news is that season ticket sales have passed 6,500.
Columbus at San Jose-9,250 New York at Colorado-13,000 Chicago at New England-12,750 Kansas city at DC United-12,000 LA at Dallas-8,000 San Jose has not drawn well with Columbus games in the past years excluding playoff matches. Dallas is playing poorly in a crap stadium. Colorado is just plain ugly but will draw the best this week,God only knows why.
i'm hoping goodwin expands on this elsewhere... but the sports business journal (paysite) had an article about the rapids forming a partnership with a blues festival in town that they hope brings ~30k to a mid june match... anyone that buys a rapids ticket gets in free to the festival, anyone that buys a festival ticket gets in free to the rapids game player appearances and possibly a band or two at rapids games look for something to pop up in b&m about this... as there were some other highlights from the piece that should be noted on for one and all -jim
Beerking, you left out New England at Kansas City. Also, the game in DC is the second half of an MLS/WUSA doubleheader. But alas, no Mia, Abby Wambach, Siri Mullinix, Tiffany Roberts, or Danielle Slaton.
Midweek: New England at Kansas City - 7,000 - They will be lucky to draw that much at midweek. Weekend: Columbus at San Jose - 10,000 - Get that many people if they are lucky. Despite the poor attendence, should be a very good match. Metrostars at Colorado - 13,000 - Colorado is as bad as DC...or other way around. Metro is on a roll. Attendence should be better. Chicago at New England - 12,750 - Revs fans have always supported them well. Maybe with a win last week (and possibly one at midweek) they will draw more than this. Kansas City at DC United - 11,200 - DC had a miserable game against the Metro. Some are starting to lose faith in good ol' Ray Hudson. LA at Dallas - 6,700 - Horrible stadium, ugly field. How can they stand to watch a match there? They should draw more than this, but i'm being the pesimist. I hope attendence figures are higher than what I have written in here.
New England will be higher - 15 to 16,000 range. It's their first evening match in a good, long while. (Maybe of the year?)
The Blues festival tie-in is scheduled for June 14 (versus Revs). Apparently this sucker is held in the Mile High parking lots every year and has barbeque and live music. Frankly, I don't see what's not to like about this for a lot of MLS fans. People seem to like music, soccer, and BBQ individually, so manybe they'll dig having all three at once.
ok then here is what i am hopeing for Wed revs @ kc 12 k Columbus @ San Jose-14 k New York at Colorado-17k Chicago at New England-16k Kansas city at DC United-18k LA at Dallas-8,000k
DC game will at least be 17.5k We have over 7,000 season tickets and it's a WUSA double header so WUSA season tickets probably around 1,500 - 2000...that's already close to 10k....these doubleheaders at least have a walkup of 7k or so. this prediction of course is based on good weather. Which has been rare around here lately, along with quality play :/
It is being broadcast by Fox Sports Net in New England, so the answer is likely (depending on your shootout provider, of course) The attendance can be below 6500 because teams do not calculate "season tickets" as "full season tickets". The Wizards have presold packages and groups totalling more than 6500x15. That's still 100,000 tickets! But only the Wizards know what the actual hard numbers are regarding "full season tickets". Even then, I'm not sure how well they apply as KC allows folks to use unused tickets to get into other games. I would expect anything from 5-10k for this one. I have no real feel. I will be amazed - and pleased - if it is above 10k.
at Kansas City 6,500 at San Jose 8,500 at Colorado 12,500 at New England 14,500 at DC 16,000 at Dallas 8,000
Since the game ended 45 minutes before this prediction, I'll let you in on a secret: 9,096 is a better guess.
Columbus at San Jose 2-1 Col - 9,500 New York at Colorado 3-1 Metro - 14,500 Chicago at New England 2-1 Revs - 18,000 Kansas city at DC United 2-0 DC 14,000 LA at Dallas 2-2 13,000
Not that it counts towards the league average (though it is money in the coffers), but DC drew 14,028 for Wednesday night's exhibition vs. Spurs.
Damn. That's the other thing I need to put on my site - international exhibitions and their attendances. Anybody got any lists off the top of their heads to add to the cause?