Games for this weekend include. Saturday, April 12th Los Angeles.at.Dallas........4:00 p.m. ET...ESPN2 Columbus....at.MetroStars.7:30 p.m. ET D.C. United.at.Kansas City.8:00 p.m. ET...FSW San Jose....at.Colorado.....9:00 p.m. ET...HDNet Sunday, April 13th New England.at.Chicago....7:00 p.m. ET Given the reduced capacities in Dallas (10,000?) and Chicago (12,000?) these should be sellouts. KC should do very well and see some fruits of its season ticket drive. Colorado could also do well, but what of the Metro???
WEEK 2 PREDICTIONS Dallas - 9,571 NY/NJ - 21,356 K.C. - 19,576 ChiTown - 12,321 week avg of - 15,706 year avg of - 16,976
Dallas-Burn now control much of the revenue=good MET- doesn't matter who comes with that lease KC-Decent lease. What's ancillary revenue situation like? If good, then this is a winner of a game. Col- decent lease. Should be a money maker. CHI-Good lease. Good game.
If Chicago gets 12k, it won't be the Fire they'll be watching, it'll be the Fire Marshall. Snow on the ground here today, but early forecast is for a high of 68 on Sunday, cooling down to 45, and potentially scattered showers.
Dallas attendance Just went by the Burn office to grab my tix and the guy there said they'd sold about 7,000. What is the usual walkup sales number on gameday?
The Facility is not operated by HSG, they book events and fill the stands, and do the advertisements. Other than that it is ran by Jackson County. The Wizards get $1 from parking. The rest of the ancillary besides the gift shops go to the county.
The Fire have once again put down green paint over the football lines at Cardinal Stadium, which, they say, will look okay for Sunday, still not too bad for May 10, a little bit worse on May 25, but after that will be pretty worn off. And it's expensive to reapply. But I was just there, it looks much better from down on the field, don't know how it will look from the stands or on FSNE's telecast. Last year's opener, in horrid weather, did something like 9,444? I think the permanent stands are, what, 4,500 officially? Everybody else will be standing around the track, I think? Depending on the weather (latest report - partly cloudy and 64 for the high, 49 for the low), 8k might not be out of the question.
Pardon me, I was thinking on 2 different trains of thought when typing my post. The point I was trying to prove was that KC has a favorable lease, and makes as much money off the in-stadium ancillaries as the Chiefs do. KC only lost around 500K last year. They have increased their season ticket base by around 2000 for this season. If you take that figure as how much their avg. attendance will be bumped up this year, times a rough estimate of 24 extra dollars per game per person, KC will gain about $700,000 in new revenue this year, which would mean that they would run in the black.
Percentage-wise? I mean, if the Chiefs get 78,000 a game and the Wizards get 12,255 a game (even with twice as many games), aren't there more in-stadium ancillaries on a total dollar basis for the Chiefs?
Saturday, 4-12 Los Angeles at Dallas 3,954 Columbus at MetroStars 9,221 D.C. United at Kansas City 4,742 San Jose at Colorado 3,234 Sunday, 4-13 New England at Chicago 6,452
i think it will be moderate attendence from every home hopener. off of the big world cup and the continueing suport of the mls, the home teams will have A FEW MORE SOLD SEATS THEN BEFORE!
Re: Re: MLS Attendance Week 2 Let's see if I can be the first to spell pessimistic right. Yawn, just another pessimistic attendance prediction from you