Leiweke: Chivas USA wants to put Galaxy out of business

Discussion in 'LA Galaxy' started by pc4th, Nov 14, 2004.

  1. pc4th

    pc4th New Member

    Jun 14, 2003
    North Poll
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This is not an April Fool joke.

    http://www.latimes.com/sports/footb...,1,2748242.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-nfl




















    Not if you are controlling the stadium, their sponsorship deal and their broadcast deal.
     
  2. mickeymac

    mickeymac New Member

    Mar 11, 2004
    Paso Robles, CA
  3. DixieDean

    DixieDean New Member

    Jun 4, 2004
    Nassau, Bahamas
  4. nyrmetros

    nyrmetros Member

    Feb 7, 2004
    Galaxy fans are too complacent.... You don't like your FO? Hold a mass protest outside their office.... Bang the big a$s drum untill they give in to your demands, or you reach an acceptable compromise...
     
  5. Mason16

    Mason16 Member

    Apr 11, 2001
    South Florida
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Nice provacative article. Good to see someone recognizes that we don't have to fit MLS into a traditional "American" sports box. The game is nternational and MLS needs to do more to leverage that key strenth of the sport. Also, I loved the Pirate or Pioneer talk about Champions World. good stuff.
     
  6. TequilaJoal

    TequilaJoal Red Card

    Mar 3, 2002
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Great Article

    Tim Said (2) interesting things:


    1.) That teams like Man U. and the other European teams should stop pirating the USA for money. and that they should play MLS teams when they come here during the summer.

    nice thought, but he didnt criticize US Soccer for taking some of that money while they pimp the US stadiums out to high priced euro teams for absolutely weak soccer product. 8 games - 7 were awful and the only decent game was the last between AC Milan v Man United. besides the fact that attendance and ticket sales were down, and talk is they might not come back.

    2.) Chivas v Galaxy rivalry - the comparing it to Lakers vs Clippers - Kings vs Ducks - UCLA vs USC. Well Tim, I see we havent lived in L.A. very long.

    first off the Lakers vs Clippers rivalry is non-exsistant. Kings vs Ducks rivalry is pretty thin if non-exsistant. But the UCLA vs USC rivalry is very exsistant and draws incredibly large crowds of yuppyish well to do money tossing Trojan fans. and large psuedo westsiders and there Volvo's to mega-venues,
    Coliseum or RoseBowl. now yet the rivalry is about as heated as somewhat well off white people can make it.... it would take ten chivas and 5 galaxy fans to spend the kinda money that one of these fans will spend for a rivalry event.

    compare -

    USC vs UCLA dec 4th - attendance 105000, week long events at both schools and off campus, the highest TV sports rating in los angeles with only the superbowl ahead of that. primetime tv spot. huge ad revenue, ridiculous media coverage.

    Chivas vs Galaxy, nice sell-out at the HDC. 27000 no pre-game rallies or events. no free-tv coverage of the game (FSW). somewhere behind NHRA drag-racing in LA sports ratings. 7:00pm sat start time, not what you call sports prime-time. miniscule ad revenue, and barely any english coverage from the media, maybe grahm l jones will right about it the next day in the LA times.


    call tim, he needs to re-think his rivalry analogy.
     
  7. MeTaLhEaD696

    MeTaLhEaD696 New Member

    Oct 30, 2004
    omg that VERGARA q me chupee la VERGAra mejor el hijue puuta

    saludes...
    muen cha...
     
  8. Calexico77

    Calexico77 Member

    Sep 19, 2003
    Mid-City LA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's a brave new world of english web-chatter and spanish. It's like the language Olmos speaks in Blade-Runner.

    Re: the article. . .

    Yeah, I buy this as much as I buy the idea that Sampson was brought in mid-season because Sigi's football wasn't entertaining enough. Oooohh, great, I'm really scared. Chivas is going to what. . up our attendance four times a year? Take all of our fans away? Maybe a few of the ones that don't care all that much about being a fan, but we'll still pull 21K a match.

    Re: NYR Metros' post.

    Bite me. LA Fans are complacent? No, we just have a stadium. Our biggest outrage this year was them replacing our coach that most of us didn't like anyway. If we had your completely retarded FO, maybe we'd be more "up in arms". It's LA, for chrissakes. Even if our team sucks, the weather is good enough for us to go play a game afterwards.
     
  9. Man Utd

    Man Utd New Member

    Aug 31, 2004
    Personally I thought the article was pretty good. He seems to understand what I have been thinking since watching the game in this country, stop trying to reinvent the wheel, it is the biggest sport in the world and does not need to be complicated. Keep working on developing home grown talent and fall in line with the way the rest of the world does it and it will be fine.

    As far as the champions series goes I feel teams like Man Utd, AC Milan etc should play MLS teams regardless of the probable results it would be great for the fans and growth of the sport. At the moment it is an insult for these teams to come over here and totally snub MLS. I watched what was basically a reserve Man Utd team wipe the floor with Club America last year at the Coliseum so how would playing the Galaxy be any worse.

    With regards to Chivas etc they are no better than MLS teams so I see no problem with them entering the league next season, in fact bring them and their arrogant owner in for a good ass kicking.
     
  10. Brownswan

    Brownswan New Member

    Jun 30, 1999
    Port St. Lucie, FL

    The world is coming to an end. I just agreed with a Dizzie -- completely -- without reservations.

    PS. Congratulations, you miserable &*^%## of $$%$(*(*!!

    See you and yer 4 Stars next year. ;)
     
  11. nyrmetros

    nyrmetros Member

    Feb 7, 2004
    I will not bite you.
     
  12. Calexico77

    Calexico77 Member

    Sep 19, 2003
    Mid-City LA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Awwww please? I'll give you 5 bucks.


    :(
     
  13. nyrmetros

    nyrmetros Member

    Feb 7, 2004
    My final answer is no. I have too much respect for you to bite you.
     
  14. Calexico77

    Calexico77 Member

    Sep 19, 2003
    Mid-City LA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's my four green square thingies, isn't it.
     
  15. onefineesq

    onefineesq Member+

    Sep 16, 2003
    Laurel, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, he has "4 green square thingies" envy. You haven't noticed his puny "3 green square thingies"??!!!
     
  16. Bill Schmidt

    Bill Schmidt BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 3, 2003
    Washington, DC
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ha, ha. That's exactly what this is about. Good eye.
     
  17. nyrmetros

    nyrmetros Member

    Feb 7, 2004
    I'm like the invisible man.......... now give me some GREEN lovin' !!!! :D
     
  18. rokstedy

    rokstedy Member+

    I love commieball
    Apr 20, 2001
    Northwest Orange County
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Totally. Methinks Vergara wants people to support this league period. He's making an investment, why don't you? Yes, I can think of reasons why you wouldn't want to support the Galaxy right now, but come derby time, it should be rocking.

    And LA fans complacent? Man, I sure didn't see that when Sampson was hired. I saw a bit of passion and anger and even more so when we got knocked out of the playoffs. Okay, maybe not on this forum alone but elsewhere I did.
     
  19. nyrmetros

    nyrmetros Member

    Feb 7, 2004
    I wasn't slagging on LA fans being complacent although I did write that. It's MLS fans in general. When's the last time MLS supporters stormed a FO and demanded answers to something? When's the last time MLS supporters pressue forced change? I'm not talking about MLS tinkering with its rules, but change at the team level due to supporters pressure which then fuels media pressure? This is something that all MLS supporters and clubs needs to work on.
     
  20. McOwen

    McOwen Member

    Jun 13, 2000
    Retirement Community
    Club:
    Nottingham Forest FC
    That only works on KC fans.... And even then only about 11,000 show up :D
     
  21. iride_mybike

    iride_mybike Member+

    Mar 31, 2004
    DFW
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Good article. I really liked the part about Leiweke sitting at home drinking whiskey in his boxers shouting "I am President of the Galaxy!"
     
  22. singnfreak

    singnfreak New Member

    Nov 9, 2004
    Chino freakin' Hills
    Chivas...great...isn't this going to turn into a...never mind...I shouldn't say...

    And I do believe that Galaxy will have more fans then Chivas...Chivas is getting boring...big woopiddy doo! It's just a another way of making more money for those tight wads up in corp.

    Galaxy is the OG soccer team of LA...Chivas isn't...anyone not down with OG is a faker...
    lol...sorry...got carried away with the whole "Snoop Dog" thingy
    anyways...

    I don't really think that anyone needs to care much about Chivas...it's a stupid idea...and furthermore they'll make even stupider ideas for the team.
     
  23. Thomas A Fina

    Thomas A Fina Member

    Mar 29, 1999
    Hell
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Pitchforks and torches to Harmon Meadows Plaza then? No?
     
  24. churchill2000

    churchill2000 3x MLS Cup Champions

    Jul 12, 2004
    Monde Virtuel
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Read my mind, Chivas, Like I have said again and again, is appealing to only one nationality, I go to the LA Galaxy games a lot, minorities are harder to come by then when they were playing at the Rose Bowl, this has been confirmed through research, not by me. And the prices aren't getting any lower.

    I would be laughing to near death, if the Chivas thing blows up in Garber's face.

    And you are right, the problem about Sigi's firing wasn't him being fired, but rather the time it was done. I.E. Should have been done after last season.

    Tim L. Reminds me much of Marc Connolly, when he tried to state that the LA Chivas rivalry will be good, he talked about some of the rivalries in international soccer, and when he came to the LA-CD, he sayed it won't be as big as that but . . .

    Truth of the matter is, MLS is starting to remind me of wrestling, something that was once enjoyable, but is now(haven't watched for nearly a decade i.e. only 18) a soap opera.
     

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