And one game out of a 34-game regular season in the team's third season, rearranged at short notice/the last minute to suit their landlord's main schedule obviates that? The options were play that one game on plastic at a neutral venue, play on grass at your main rival's stadium (which isn't in the city either), or play right out of town on grass. Most coaches would have pushed the last option. Not all teams would have taken the coach's advice. IMO there's a lot of credit due to the Sky Blue's FO for listening to the coach's considered opinion.* * And yes, I did feel dirty while writing that sentence
Not at all.....I was responding to a post that suggested that the league tried (or is trying) to get them to share the park in Harrison.
I agree that none of us know but looking at this from a completely outsider view (not a fan of either team) it would make very little since for NYRB to turn down money/rent for use of their stadium while at the same time being able to shame their rival. NYRB fans would have forever held it over the head of NYCFC fans. "the day the team from the city had to humble themselves and play across the river". NYRB has had other games and events at their stadium. So they are obviously open to renting out the stadium. It makes much more sense that NYCFC turned it down for the latter reason I stated.
Calling Stamford "right out of town" would be a bit of a stretch, but defensible. Even New Haven is at least still closer to NYC than Foxborough.
I may, however, have misread the post that I was responding to (ie it may have been about that one game only) and that has led to the confusion between us....my apologies.
yeah, I get that and I owned up to it and am feeling shame over getting it wrong....try not to rub it in
with Atlanta and Seattle's massive attendance success, how long does it take before NYCFC changes course and just plays at MetLife Stadium.
MetLife is very poorly located and would be a disaster. The NFL and big concerts do well, but MLS could not convince large crowds to hike out to the swamp.
When does the decision on the Belmont Park development come down.....from the outside looking in it seemed to be a choice between a MLS anchored development or a New York Islander's arena anchored development.
Hockey plays 82 games + possible playoffs, and more concerts would use an indoor arena. Unfortunately it seems like the better choice...
current generation NHL standard hockey rinks cost >$500 million to build (Little Caesars in Detroit was over $800 million) .......there is more to the equation than just nights in use