I can't figure out which this is, but you can do it on their site, for between $1 and $1,000: http://rowdiessoccer.newclients.com/p/46/stadium-purchase I gotta see a picture, though, before I can commit. And I have to know if I'm going to get an actual stadium, when and how you're going to deliver it and how big it is so I can clear some room in the back yard. If I'm helping you buy your own stadium, let me know that, too. Kthxbye.
It's gotta be either a web error or a hack job, 'cause if it were legit, I'm sure the club would've advertised it already.
That is absolutely the best thing I have seen today. And no, it's not been a bad day! At first, I thought it was maybe just a fake screen shot, but this is actually in the Rowdies team store and it's just great. Kenn, I can't figure out which it is either - am I buying the stadium or helping the team buy a stadium. Any which way you slice it, they might want to take it down or maybe add a bit more description to the item. Also, if you don't want to buy a stadium in Tampa, I have a bridge I could sell you in Brooklyn.
That has been there for weeks now. If it is a hack job and the team still hasn't fixed it, what does that tell you? If it isn't a hack job, well then your guess is as good as mine.
Maybe we can get "Uncle" Phil Anschutz to help us out with a new stadium. Surely,he can help build us a modest, little stadium. Look at the Houston Dynamo's new BBVA Compass Stadium that he just help build. http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...ews-follow-first-session-bbva-compass-stadium I think we would be happy with our own Blackbaud Stadium. http://www.buyhomesincharleston.com/img/Recreation/charleston battery.jpg http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/us/news/2002/04/09/phils_family_sa/ http://aol.sportingnews.com/soccer/...schutz-close-to-purchase-of-tottenham-hotspur
The more I see BLACKBAUD STADIUM, the more I keep praying that we get a stadium like that. I would even kill to have a venue like the Atlanta Silverbacks' Stadium (which I've been to in person) for the Rowdies!
Blackbaud is fabulous. It cost $5.9M 13 years ago, though. I shudder to think what it would cost today.
If you like the way it looks from that photo,you'll love it in person. The stadium is located on Daniel Island in a great little neighborhood. The stadium has a team store and the awesome,Three Lions Pub. http://www.charlestonbattery.com/stadium_overview.asp
I'm am pretty sure that cost would be much much higher now. Back then, Daniel Island was mostly marsh and undeveloped. I believe Tony Baker (the main Battery owner) controlled most the land as he was the founder of Blackbaud Software, which the stadium shares a parking lot. Today, Daniel Island is a growing community and house prices have continued to raise despite the housing market. the land alone would likely be more than the $5.9 million. and everytime I walk into the stadium I am grateful we have such a great little stadium. I wish more clubs could replicate it.
Last year was the first time I'd been there. Met Mikey, even, which was cool. The Three Lions is the single greatest soccer thing I've ever seen in this country.
Well yes, I guess... but not where I was coming from. I meant it from a strictly selfish perspective; if Charleston was in the NASL, I could travel there with the ROWDIES and enjoy seeing my team play on their field, and tip a few in the Pub while enjoying a ROWDIES victory. LOL
It only doesn't make sense for them because they have made it clear that they are happy in D3 for now. We don't really know that Charleston wouldn't thrive in the NASL and on a somewhat larger budget until its tried. But I don't blame them at all for not wanting to risk what they've built. I'd hope that while they are publicly very happy with their current situation, they are also taking a close look at the pros and cons of moving up. If not, then so be it. But I'm also selfish, it'd be pretty cool to have them in the NASL.
And part of the reason they're happy in D3 is that it makes more sense for them than D2 at this point. I mean,what more reason do you need, really, than they believe it doesn't make sense for them? It doesn't matter what you believe or I believe or some other random person believes. They believe it doesn't make sense for them. Ergo, it doesn't make sense for them. Trust me, Andrew Bell is a friend of mine, we've talked about this quite a bit. Because of where their club is as an organization and because of the landscape at the moment, the second division makes no sense for them right now. If - as most businesses would be - you'd rather not lose scads of money. Did you miss that they were a second-division team for many years? Only Tony Bakker knows for sure what their financial fortunes were in the second division, and they dropped out of it, in part, over the uncertainty over the whole USL/TOA mess, only to find that life was just fine in the third division. Could they be a second division team again? I guess. All they'd have to do is want to. Have they won the second division before? Yes. Have they won the third division? Yes. Are they going to be an MLS market? No. Do they need to be a second division market? It doesn't appear so, does it? They're still going to be constrained by the fact that they don't even have 700,000 people in their metro. They're smaller than Akron and Worcester and Dayton. And as the economics of the game have changed and continue to do so, it's going to be more and more difficult for markets of this size to be effective second-division markets. Having their own stadium would put them ahead of some other D3-type people who would be overly ambitious, but it still wouldn't be easy. It's getting more expensive - not less expensive - to do this well. So, no, the second division doesn't make sense for Charleston. And, yes, because they say so.