I was just as surprised as you likely are... since this is in our offseason, it won't likely have any major implications for United, BUT, if you think about it for a second, it just may... Consider the Washington DC Bowl Committee was only looking to gather about 35k spectators for the game, now remember that the proposed stadium at Poplar Point was originally slated to have a capacity of 35k... If DC wants to continue hosting a bowl game inside the district, it'll need a modern facility. I've had far too many Yuenglings to continue speculation, but I'm sure there are others who can pick up the slack.
My prayer is that the stands would go right up to the sidelines and (unless they can be pushed back) dont have the sideline room for a pointy ball sport match.
A soccer field is substantially wider than a football field, though. I can't believe more and more bowl games are still being added. This is the one that's going to be like Navy (when they don't have an outstanding season) versus the like 6th or 7th ranked ACC team, right? I miss when teams had to earn an extra game, not just fall into it because of cake out of conference schedules.
"Ole Bobby" has to pay it's bills! Personally I feel that unless somebody in the "City Office" does some serious moving we won't see Popular Point until someone threatens to move. I don't know if DCU can afford to move right now. I don't even think a championship will make the Uppity ups downtown quit sittin' on the "Treasure Chest". Barry is one voice among many. Too many other more important financial concerns, they won't throw any money anywhere unless it will show them a major return. They are eating "Crow" right now with the "Nationals", once burnt..... you know the rest. Bottom line is Ole Bobby and a box of Bandaids is all we might see until things with the "money belt" get a little looser. UNITED WE STAND !!! __________________
Sorry, it's actually the ninth best ACC team. And nine bowl-eligible teams for the ACC? That's optimistic.
theres good teams in the ACC? thats a suprise. what 1 ranked team? UMD losing to MIDTENST? GOOD GAWD! ACC is terrible! thank god for basketball and soccer for that conference
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/10/ST2008091004069.html Here's the story. I thought they were planning on holding this at the Nationals Park.... I was interested to see how it would be configured for a rectangular field.
The only good thing about this is that the city will have to repair RFK. The NCAA Bowl Committee would be rightfully upset with its current condition...like the lack of lights, for example. There are more.
There's plenty of lights - Its the Benning Rd Substation that went kaflooey - But HEY - Don't forget chunks of concrete falling on fans underneath the mezzanine
How are they handling ticketing for the Barra/Eagles sections? There are wide swathes of seats that are now missing. I mean rows upon rows that are completely gone. People cannot actually occupy the chairs that they pay for at this time. Unless that means the City means to keep us around for a couple more years and is planning to reinstall them... Thx, Jay!
Well, yes. Including RFK, IIRC, but my point was that it has never been done at Nationals Park, so I was interested to see what it would look like there. Guess I should have been more specific.
I would be surprised if baseball allowed this game to be played at Nationals Park. Remember, MLB put all types of restrictions on the city being able to use the stadium in the offseason. Having a couple of NFL teams run all over it would seem like a nonstarter to me. Sooooooooooo, going to RFK for this should be fun. I hope the game is a night game. If it is, I'll almost certainly go.
Unfortunately Nationals Park was not configured for a provision for Long field sports. When the design was considered they decided to push the field seating down behind homeplate thus pushing the physical location of homeplate almost tight against the seating. this crowded the field and solely configured the stadium for Baseball only. If one were to try and superimpose a long field design on the field, there would only be room for 2/3 a regulation sized football or soccer field. Only way to make Nats Park work for football or soccer would be to totally redesign the seating behind homeplate thus removing a major part of the available seating behind homeplate. RFK was designed to provide room for both Baseball and football, seeing that Washington's professional Outdoor sports teams could use RFK with minimal changes. This was done to make professional sports more affordable to the City of DC.
Again, it matters not. The city's contract with that stadium sucks. MLB has nearly every right to that stadium. Hell, they had the right to FINE the city of DC if it wasn't completed in time, even though they (MLB) weren't putting a red cent into its construction. There will be no football there. Book it. By the way, I mistakenly said NFL teams in my previous post when I obviously meant college teams.
The City has a stadium that will handle 62,000 people, "Ole Bobby" Now that was with all the seating installed so we are looking at the about 55,000 if they replace the "knockdowns" behind the goals. I seriously doubt they will go to the trouble of reinstalling the 200 sections that were removed. With all the lowers filled that are currently in place you have close to 32 K. Open up the 400 and 500 sections you add almost double that amount. They won't have to change anything to make room for that Gate amount. Another thing DC is looking to possibly make the Bowl game an annual occurrence. They won't do this without trying the test market first.
First, the nationals stadium is large enough to hold a football game, they already hold at least one bowl game under similar terrible circumstances. Second, I think the DC supporters groups should make an effort to attend, smoke bombs, flags, drums, and tifo included (something like "this is our house). Drowning out some college marching bands would be quite the challenge.
surprisingly, thats what last years international bowl in toronto looked like, a bunch of soccer supporters showed up and made some noise, surprisingly they got into the game, and added to the atmosphere
Doc, I'm writing specifically about seats in sections 135-138 that are missing. Like Rows 4 & 8 in 137 specifically. You can't print a ticket with those locations on them because the chairs are gone. People are going to want to sit there for a football game. It would be kind of ridiculous not to sell those prime seats. Especially when they are only targeting a 35,000 attendance. You don't want everyone sitting upstairs if you are the event organizer. Thx, Jay!
yeah how are they going to sell those seats? almost all of the barra sections have no seats and theres no replacements for them from what I heard (thanks nats for throwing the rest of the seats out, you morons!)
And exactly what would be the point of spoiling someone else's fun? It is not like this game is going to matter for DC United in any-, way, shape, or form.
I did not know that. Interesting. Am I the only one who heard something about this bowl being played at Nationals Stadium back a few months ago when they first started discussing it? Maybe I heard it here. Or on MLS News and Rumours. Or from a drunk. BTW, I'm am pretty sure that RFK only seats 45K or so now after the Nationals "remodeled." Maybe my Heels will be in it. 44-12 baybeeeee!