Despite the rain, 22,274 fans showed up at Giant Stadium.

Juan Luis Guerra · Jun 21, 2003

Despite the rain, 22,274 fans showed up at Giant Stadium. This is a great news. Carlos Ruiz did not play. Add another 3,000 if el pescadito would have played today. Congratulation Metro fans for your great support.

MD_05 · Jun 21, 2003

i thought giants stadium had a capacity around 22k for soccer, so would they open up more of the stadium or turn people away(if more had come)?

p.s. listen to FSW to see if they read my question. Matt from lima, Ohio

Frieslander · Jun 21, 2003

That number is a typo or something.

Khansingh · Jun 21, 2003

I'll say. If there were 13,000, my ass is a banjo.

babytiger2001 · Jun 21, 2003

Originally posted by Khansingh
I'll say. If there were 13,000, my ass is a banjo.
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But you ever notice that you can never play a depressing tune on a banjo?

Sceptical enough not to believe the 22K figure, having seen the game here. But 13K would be too low, also.

Likely somewhere in between, like around 15K.

Juan Luis Guerra · Jun 21, 2003

I just instant message my friend in New York who was at the game and I asked him the same question. He said that the rain was so hard that most people seated by the roof, which is huge. They moved back instead of up front. Also, remember that if I buy a ticket and they I decide not to show, I will still count as a present fan.

Juan Luis Guerra · Jun 21, 2003

he told me that there was a lot of people. He said aorund 20k present.

Roehl Sybing · Jun 21, 2003

Generally, the front office cares more about the number of fans that pay you money to buy a ticket that earns one the right to sit in a seat at a game than the number of fans who are actually in those seats. As such, the former number is the one that counts for attendance. 22K sounds about right for MET/LA. Certainly didn't seem that many were actually in attendance today.

nyrmetros · Jun 21, 2003

how big was ESC ?

metrocorazon · Jun 22, 2003

There was NOT 22K there. You can argue that maybe those were tickets sold, which is fine. But if you wanna estimate how many people actually showed up it was more like 12-15K. Which is still pretty good considering how bad the weather was. If it was 22K then you wouldnt have seen that many seats empty. When the lower bowl and middle mezz are sold out its about 35-40K and considering that only abour 30% of that was actually filled....

Everyone did go under the Mezzanine so thats why you didnt see anyone on TV except for the few brave souls who decided to sit in the rain instead of 20 rows back.

The ESC was about 75 people with only about half of them sitting up front and the rest under the roof.

I dont blame anyone for not sitting in the rain for this one as it was as cold as winter, but it rained like in the middle of monsoon season.

Stevedm · Jun 22, 2003

For the 300 times we have gone over this on bigsoccer you people are retarded or live under a rock. IT GOES BY TICKETS SOLD!!!! TICKETS SOLD!!!!!!!!!!! TICKETS SOLD!!!!!!!!!!! They sold 22k tickets. Regardless of how many showed up!!! The next idiot that starts a thread like this should be shot because he needs to be eliminated from the gene pool!!

yellowbismark · Jun 22, 2003

So the Bo fans decided not to show up because their guy wasn't playing? Great, another fickle ethnic group.

Centennial · Jun 22, 2003

What a huuugggeeee stadium!!! WOW. 22 K fit under the overhangs from the upper deck. Amazing !!!! What is the capacity 500,000 !!! WOW

Centennial · Jun 22, 2003

Originally posted by Stevedm
For the 300 times we have gone over this on bigsoccer you people are retarded or live under a rock. IT GOES BY TICKETS SOLD!!!! TICKETS SOLD!!!!!!!!!!! TICKETS SOLD!!!!!!!!!!! They sold 22k tickets. Regardless of how many showed up!!! The next idiot that starts a thread like this should be shot because he needs to be eliminated from the gene pool!!
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Did you even bother to read the caption for this post!!!

I quote "Despite the rain, 22,274 fans showed up at Giant Stadium." They said that these 22 k showed up not just purchased tix. Maybe you should read the captions before posting dude!!

I THINK THAT YOU ARE THE IDIOT THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE ELIMINATED FROM THE GENE POOL!!!

HA

Juan Luis Guerra · Jun 22, 2003

Originally posted by Stevedm
For the 300 times we have gone over this on bigsoccer you people are retarded or live under a rock. IT GOES BY TICKETS SOLD!!!! TICKETS SOLD!!!!!!!!!!! TICKETS SOLD!!!!!!!!!!! They sold 22k tickets. Regardless of how many showed up!!! The next idiot that starts a thread like this should be shot because he needs to be eliminated from the gene pool!!
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Yeah, before you post, read careful what people like me the started of this thread said. I said

"I just instant message my friend in New York who was at the game and I asked him the same question. He said that the rain was so hard that most people seated by the roof, which is huge. They moved back instead of up front. Also, remember that if I buy a ticket and they I decide not to show, I will still count as a present fan".

i KNOW VERY WELL THAT IF YOU BUY A TICKET AND THEY YOU DECIDE NOT TO GO, YOUR TICKET STILL COUNT FOR THE GENERAL ATTENDANCE. IN FACT. NO ONE SHOULD SEAT ON YOUR SEAT EVEN IF YOUR ARE NOT THERE IDIOT. DONT CALL ME IDIOT, MAYBE YOUR ARE. I DESERVE SOME APOLOGY.

bukie2k · Jun 22, 2003

Here is some fuzzy math:
Let's say the last 8 rows of every lower section at GS were filled. Multiply those eight rows by 25 seats and then multiply that figure by 36, which represents the number of sections in the lower tier keeping in mind there are no sections that end in 6. That would give you a figure of around 7200 people. Not all of the covered seats we occupied by any stretch of the imagination so saying there was more than even 10k both wet and dry in the stadium is exagerated.

bunge · Jun 22, 2003

Move the MetroStars?

Khansingh · Jun 22, 2003

I can easily believe that 22,274 people bought tickets. It's just that the thread (no offense JLG) title would make martyrs of Metro fans when they don't really deserve it. Well the ones who showed up do, I know I wouldn't have gone. Cheers to those very dedicated fans.

MasterShake29 · Jun 22, 2003

Originally posted by bunge
Move the MetroStars?
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Absolutely. Give them 2.5 more years, then move them to Harrison. Maybe it will even have stopped raining by then.

kebzach · Jun 25, 2003

IT'S TICKETS SOLD, NOT THE PEOPLE THAT COME TO THE GAME!!

Frank Cunha · Jun 25, 2003

with the terrible conditions why not refund the fans with another ticket for a different game,

copaantl98 · Jun 25, 2003

Originally posted by metrocorazon

The ESC was about 75 people with only about half of them sitting up front and the rest under the roof.

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I got a cold from it and I still have it. But it was well worth it.

copaantl98 · Jun 25, 2003

Originally posted by yellowbismark
So the Bo fans decided not to show up because their guy wasn't playing? Great, another fickle ethnic group.
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I still saw a great number of Bo fans. But I bet they were unaware of whether he was playing or not.

copaantl98 · Jun 25, 2003

Originally posted by Frank Cunha
with the terrible conditions why not refund the fans with another ticket for a different game,
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Well they did come up with a special ticket offer. http://www.metrostars.com/tickets/070203.htm

copaantl98 · Jun 25, 2003

Originally posted by MD_05
i thought giants stadium had a capacity around 22k for soccer, so would they open up more of the stadium or turn people away(if more had come)?

p.s. listen to FSW to see if they read my question. Matt from lima, Ohio
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The capacity is 25,000. But they don't turn away the fans. For our home opener in 2000, we got 27,000. 2001 got 30,000.