Falcons consider Doraville Possible Stadium site?

Probably none, unless it means he's going to bail on MLS to do a stadium for the Falcons. I can't see a soccer team sharing a stadium. Seattle was a one-time deal.

 

I believe it ends in 2020. If the Sembler group is going build it with their money, I don't think people will have a problem with it. I don't, however, think the taxpayers would be too happy having to foot the bill. I wonder, with the developments with the Arena league taking a year off (as with the Silverbacks, "sitting out" may mean "RIP"), if Blank may step up getting a soccer stadium built. I really don't think Blank can build both a football stadium and a soccer stadium. And, like I said, I think Seattle was a one-shot deal, unless the folks in Vancouver are allowed play at BC Place temporarily.

 

Falcons to Doraville = MLS to refurbished 1 Georgia Dome Drive?

Or maybe they'll reconfigure Turner Field to its Olympic Stadium size and move MLS there, so our soccer team can play there like the teams in other former Olympic cities (Rome, Torino, etc.)?

Frankly, Falcons to Doraville is, to use a technical term, damned stupid

 

Nope to both. The Dome is too narrow for soccer, and too big for MLS. It would take too much work and too much $$$ to reconfigure for soccer (and it'd still be too big, and turf on top of that). The Ted was never used for soccer, even when it was in Olympic configuration (games were played at UGA, sans hedge, among other places). Again, no way in heck to build it back. Plus, there is a baseball team (you may have heard of them--the Braves? ), that might not like that too much (but then, if they made it look like the old Polo Grounds, and got some dude who could hit the long ball, and run like the wind, can anyone say "inside the park homer-fest?). it would be nice, though, to have a couple of "test matches" at the Ted, to measure the interest in MLS.

If the Falcons don't move to Doraville, they would be better off leveling the Dome and building something on the site (like the city would go for that), and play at Tech for a couple of years. But Tech's not on MARTA, either, although the North Ave. station isn't that far (used it when we used to go to drum corps shows there--ah, them was the days, you betcha!).

 

Nope to both. The Dome is too narrow for soccer, and too big for MLS. It would take too much work and too much $$$ to reconfigure for soccer (and it'd still be too big, and turf on top of that). The Ted was never used for soccer, even when it was in Olympic configuration (games were played at UGA, sans hedge, among other places). Again, no way in heck to build it back. Plus, there is a baseball team (you may have heard of them--the Braves? ), that might not like that too much (but then, if they made it look like the old Polo Grounds, and got some dude who could hit the long ball, and run like the wind, can anyone say "inside the park homer-fest?). it would be nice, though, to have a couple of "test matches" at the Ted, to measure the interest in MLS.

If the Falcons don't move to Doraville, they would be better off leveling the Dome and building something on the site (like the city would go for that), and play at Tech for a couple of years. But Tech's not on MARTA, either, although the North Ave. station isn't that far (used it when we used to go to drum corps shows there--ah, them was the days, you betcha!).

 

Nope to both. The Dome is too narrow for soccer, and too big for MLS. It would take too much work and too much $$$ to reconfigure for soccer (and it'd still be too big, and turf on top of that). The Ted was never used for soccer, even when it was in Olympic configuration (games were played at UGA, sans hedge eek among other places). Again, no way in heck to build it back. Plus, there is a baseball team (you may have heard of them--the Braves? ), that might not like that too much (but then, if they made it look like the old Polo Grounds, and got some dude who could hit the long ball, and run like the wind, can anyone say "inside the park homer-fest?). it would be nice, though, to have a couple of "test matches" at the Ted, to measure the interest in MLS.

If the Falcons don't move to Doraville, they would be better off leveling the Dome and building something on the site (like the city would go for that), and play at Tech for a couple of years. But Tech's not on MARTA, either, although the North Ave. station isn't that far (used it when we used to go to drum corps shows there--ah, them was the days, you betcha!).

 

Nope to both. The Dome is too narrow for soccer, and too big for MLS. It would take too much work and too much $$$ to reconfigure for soccer (and it'd still be too big, and turf on top of that). The Ted was never used for soccer, even when it was in Olympic configuration (games were played at UGA, sans hedge, among other places). Again, no way in heck to build it back. Plus, there is a baseball team (you may have heard of them--the Braves? ), that might not like that too much (but then, if they made it look like the old Polo Grounds, and got some dude who could hit the long ball, and run like the wind, can anyone say "inside the park homer-fest?). it would be nice, though, to have a couple of "test matches" at the Ted, to measure the interest in MLS.

If the Falcons don't move to Doraville, they would be better off leveling the Dome and building something on the site (like the city would go for that), and play at Tech for a couple of years. But Tech's not on MARTA, either, although the North Ave. station isn't that far (used it when we used to go to drum corps shows there--ah, them was the days, you betcha!).

 

Nope to both. The Dome is too narrow for soccer, and too big for MLS. It would take too much work and too much $$$ to reconfigure for soccer (and it'd still be too big, and turf on top of that). The Ted was never used for soccer, even when it was in Olympic configuration (games were played at UGA, sans hedge, among other places). Again, no way in heck to build it back. Plus, there is a baseball team (you may have heard of them--the Braves? ), that might not like that too much (but then, if they made it look like the old Polo Grounds, and got some dude who could hit the long ball, and run like the wind, can anyone say "inside the park homer-fest?). it would be nice, though, to have a couple of "test matches" at the Ted, to measure the interest in MLS.

If the Falcons don't move to Doraville, they would be better off leveling the Dome and building something on the site (like the city would go for that), and play at Tech for a couple of years. But Tech's not on MARTA, either, although the North Ave. station isn't that far (used it when we used to go to drum corps shows there--ah, them was the days, you betcha!).

 

I was kidding, especially about my beloved Bravos

Test matches at the Ted sounds like fun though!

 

You mean Baseball Club (BC) Atlanta, aka the BirdDawgz?

A test soccer match at the Ted sounds like a winner, especially with that view from the Chop House

 

Cleanup on aisle 5! A 5-post by DavidP, and we already have: "Stadium discussion: Location, Size, Parking, etc..." thread...

 

This is a test.

 

Something, somewhere had a freak-out the night I posted that. In fact, it was only after I sent the "test message that I was able to read the newer stuff. My apologies. It has happened to some other folks in other threads as well over the weekend.

 

Perhaps, but in order for the field to meet minimum standards, it would need to be a lot wider. It would cost a ton to do that. They'd have to do permanently what was done temporarily at Giants Stadium for the '94 World Cup. Either that, or what they did at the Cotton Bowl and Rose Bowl, and that would cost a bunch as well.

 

That would really be the only gauge available to test Atlanta's MLS waters. And it would have to be a weekend match, not Wednesday at 7:00, just after rush-hour. That would be literally sabotage, and would kill any Atlanta bid.

 

I know what you're insinuating. Give it up. Now.

 

I don't think this was the first time the championship was played in the Dome. My HS played a Championship game there years ago before losing the game, again, this year

BINGO!!!!!

 

You can't really use the local media's coverage of a USL team to gauge their potential interest in an MLS team. The Toronto Lynx could have held reporters hostage and not made the news. TFC seems to be doing just fine. The Utah Blitzz was ignored, RSL gets coverage. You see where I'm going with this.

I really hope Atlanta gets a team. I have tons of family in Georgia (grandfather worked for Northeast Airlines, got bought by Delta, moved down from Boston in 1972). Snellville, Auburn, Decatur, Stone Mountain...I'd love to go down and bring them to an MLS game. My cousin's wedding reception in '06 ended up being at the same hotel that housed the Silverbacks Bar & Grille (names escapes me now) and my family was pretty impressed. They're very much "Joe Sixpack" sports fans, NASCAR/Dirty Birds/Red Sox (we kept some of them in line), and had the opinion you'd expect of soccer but that bar all by itself got them interested. Some of them even went to Silverbacks games. You could tell, though, that the fact that it was minor league did not excite them in the way a "pro" team would.

Good luck.

 

Fair enough