Get on the record. Make your choice and comment. We're limited to 20 polling responses so I'm showing the first 20 Saturdays of the MLS season. First date is that date and before, last date is that date and after. That last choice 7/19 or later, could be a hot one! Sorry Wednesday/Thursday choices aren't available because it won't open on a Wednesday/Thursday and Sunday choices are omitted because Sunday games suck. Note - Opening is defined as first revenue generating game. Doesn't have to be an MLS regular season game.
I have the distinction of being the first poster who voted? How about that? Jul 19, 2014 or later 1 vote(s) 100.0%
Sometime in May. They'll be behind schedule a couple of months, and the Quakes will spend the first few weeks on the road. Of course, I hope I'm completely wrong.
I'll play the gloom and doom role. I voted 7/5, only because I have not seen any change, save for cars driving up and down Coleman, in the "live web cam" view since it went up. First kick is what, nine months away? That still looks like one enormous empty lot. I hope I'm wrong, too.
My mom told me it all looks like Italy & Germany did after WW2 with all the bombed out buildings and reconstruction. It took a while for them (maybe 10-15 years?) to get moving on the re-building. Thankfully, 65 years on, things should move a little faster but how much faster is the question?
Depends on the location... Dresden Frauenkirche was completed in 2005 (started in 1992)... <-- I happened to stay at the hotel here in early 2006...
I bet on April 5th, but I think the stadium will be ready sooner. My guess is that MLS will set the schedule with some slip in it, so they'll put us down for April 5th, but we'll be completely finished and ready to go at least a week or two before that. New stadia go up in a hurry. And, it's Devcon doing the construction, it's going to fly once they finish with all the prep work. What's taking so long now is marking all the darned wells (which might not be perfectly located on any map), and tearing up the giant foundations and vaults, which were also not supposed to be there. It's going to rock kids. Chill. go quakes!! Good Luck Mark Watson! - Mark
oops just saw this thread: will post my guess here also and raise you an opponent. Sat. Mar.22 at 1pm. vs. DC United.
If they open on March 8th, that means they have only 9 total months to put up and complete the whole thing. With weekends, holidays and weather (although it probably won't rain until at least November even though I saw lightening this morning) , I don't think they will be able to work that fast.
Bite you tongue! What the hell dude?! Our stadium is going to be a palace, and it will be able to withstand actual earthquakes too! go quakes! go Watson! - Mark
Even worse would be if there were an earthquake and a bunch of people died and then their whiny families pressure the team to change its name. That would be tragic.
I wish we'd kept the scorpion mascot at least. We need a Cloudy Jade alternate jersey. Go Clash!! - Mark
Ha! We mostly sucked when we were the Clash. I remember going to games and thinking that our team, and our whole league were crap. The Casbah used to do a countdown to the "it's time to wear a bag over your head" match. And I did wear a bag over my head a couple of times, but it was damn hot. Still, I liked the scorpion, I liked the jade jerseys and the red of course was sort of a through back to the old NASL team, so it worked for me. go Clash! - Mark
In what universe? Only one weird EQ mascot got the honor of being assaulted by PoshBoy. The others are just disturbing. As far as when the Epicenter opens? May 3