The rules about "no visiting supporters in the home supporter section" and flagpoles needing to be hollow PVC are league-wide, right? The bag policy, OTOH... Presentation of a ticket or proper credential along with management reserving the right to eject anyone they see fit to do so tells me it's private property.
Yes and no. The idea that MLS can't set policy for what happens at MLS games is laughable. They do it all the time. There's an MLS Code of Conduct for fans at the very least. They have policy for what numbers of tickets have to be allotted for away fans. They are absolutely allowed to call shots on a lot of issues. That said, I don't know why a law enforcement agency or government group (whatever you might think of them) would need permission from a sports league to conduct business.
OOOHHH GOOD POINT! Someone bookmark that Crew statement (if it was even something official). Never know when we can throw it back in their face when they get overreaching with fans.
I'd say it may get more tricky with publicly-owned places/buildings where the visitor agrees to terms and conditions to enter. Places like COSI, the zoo, City Hall and OSU buildings all come to mind. Those aren't privately-owned, but a visitor definitely agrees to certain rules in order to enter.
Words I can & can't use. Or flags I can and can't wave (not that I know anything about that one ) It's a very interesting door they've opened up.
I'm very sorry to circle back here but Judas Preist, the ISC? That bunch of self appointed kooks couldnt run a f*cking lemonade stand in hell, and they sure arent in charge of anything, anywhere. Im.really stunned that someone.of your experience, knowledge and judgement would ever even bring them up. Are you drunk.
I don't entirely disagree that the ISC is mostly feckless, but they are the ones asking the League to clarify their ambiguous positions and getting responses from 5th Ave about the league's stances on certain issues. And then holding them to account. It's not like there's anyone in Columbus - or KC or Portland or LA or anywhere else - doing the same.
It isn't a public facility though. The Haslams own the land and the stadium. You can't just walk in and have a picnic on the field on non-gamedays. They'd arrest you for trespassing.
Public by the legal definition (probably being "anyone can buy a ticket"--it's not members only), I expect. That sometime differs from reality
And whats the deal with the FO cancelling the "Supporters Summit" which they took over? Why would the control freaks be in charge of the SS to begin with?
I could accept them moving the season away from the 2 best months of the year for soccer. I could live with them raising my ticket prices more than double in 4 seasons. I could even accept that we seem bang average as a squad with no plan to get back go the upper echelon. But the higher ups getting rid of Ben's regular pretzels and only having Ben's pretzel bites? The Haslams, Edwards, Issa, nordecke board EVERYONE has to go. #itscalledbenspretzelsnotbenspretzlebites
I was at the She Believes Cup last night and was pretty amazed at the expansion of the seating to the west of the Nordecke. They also extended the Party Patio all the way across the top of the west side of the Nordecke. Anyone know how many additional seats have been added?
Around 300. 252 in the section alone These are the premium seats with extra room on either side. I hope the addition helps hold in sound better and helps with the wind for the schedule switch. There are new food options too. Not any cheaper. The TQL is expanding, and they want your grandma's unclaimed funds to help with it
I know they are premium, my ticket rep went over the upsell process on them with me, i just didn't realize they were extending it over the whole Nordecke.
I was just noting it to say there arent as many seats in the section as one would think due to the extra room on each side
We were in the section above the NetJets Suite area last night during pregame, some US Soccer Insider reception, and I noticed you could walk from the area above the east side of the Nordecke all the way to the elevators behind the press box on the west side of the stadium. Interesting.
Near as I can tell, the highest attendance in the stadium thus far has been 20,931, for the 2024 MLS All Star Game. I assume we could technically crack 21K now.
Dispatch article on food options at the stadium this season: https://www.dispatch.com/story/ente...concession-items-for-2026-season/88897284007/
It's not. The stadium is owned by Confluence Community Authority, which is a special government entity created specifically for the stadium (and the area in general). That is how the stadium gets away with not paying any property taxes. Here you can see that in 2025 that was over $100 million in exempt property value. This is also why they're constantly kissing the local school district's behind and you always see pictures of them visiting kids in schools. It's a lot cheaper than paying what the property tax bill would have been had the exemption not been in place. They made/make "payments in lieu of taxes" to the school district of their historic stadium and probably have agreed to do so for this one as well but I no longer have access to my documentation on the matter so I cannot verify that at the moment. The team rents the stadium for $10 a year, but weren't even paying that until someone reported them for not doing so. So legally, the team is renting the public facility for their private use. When they are paying customers, they can set whatever rules they want about woke t-shirts or LARPing flags or whatever the complaint is about. But they cannot set policy governing what federal law authorities are allowed to do on the public property they do not own.