Fire Stadium: Down to TWO http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dssports/pro/113sd9.htm http://www.suntimes.com/output/fire/cst-spt-fire11.html
I would be surprised if the two sites that remain in the running are not Bridgeview and the one near sox park.
Less seats will me more people will buy season tickets and tickets in advance. Money in the bank ahead of time. Then when the weather isn't great you still have those tickets sold.We aren't going to draw 30,000 too often. In fact I doubt if we will have even 20,000 for the 10/18 game.
Not if you don't sell out every single game. The point is to create demand. The goal is to sell out the game before the game. Increase season ticket sales. Smaller is better to create an more intimate atmosphere... When the Fire can fill 30,000 seats everygame, then you can always expand.
Yes, but you're forgetting the whole concept of dead-weight loss...(i heard that word in my econ course for my minor. does anybody out there know if that makes sense?)
when this future expansion occurs, will we get to go back to Naperville during construction time? ps- Sox Park. My vote is in.
Watching the Crew game via the Shootout package, which was using the Columbus commentating and Fox crew, the commnetators mentioned that they had heard from PW (and I am paraphrasing here, but the general emphasis is correct) "In strong terms that the Fire would like to stay along the lakefront. There are several proposals still in the running but they would have to be very attractive to make the fire move from SF." Nothing particularly new there but their emphasis on PW's emphasis that the Fire are pretty happy with the SF deal was a bit surprising. Personally, anything that gets us away from gridiron lines during the most exciting part of the season would be well worth the effort.
I'm sure new Solider Field is beautiful, but as a soccer fan, I would be disapointed if the team was so enamored with its new surroundings that they passed on having their own barn and all that goes with it. It's not just the gridiron lines or the scheduling conflcts or the control of revenue, it's just the prestige of having your own place and the bump that gives both the league and the club and the feeling you get when you're in a place that is sold out or close to it, which just isn't going to happen in an NFL venue. Right now, Solider Field is New P***y and everyone always loves New P***y. But you should not let getting some New P***y cloud your judgement about what is really for your best long term interests. BTW, in the off chance you don't know what P***y is, feel free to IM me.
I figured the Fire would eliminate Hanover Park and Hoffman Estates as just too far from the center of the metro area. I consider downtown chicago as the center despite what maps show.
[Cleaned up thread. Lets keep this on topic and appropriate please] I would expect an annoucement in a week... Or sometime right before playoffs.