hopefully someone reads this before I leave my house tomorrow, but how is pricing at the bulls shop? I definitely want to buy some sort of innagural season at RBA memorabillia and definitely a new team scarf. how is the pricing? I feel like it'll be way overpriced for shirts and what not.
I don't know about the shop on the ground floor facing the public, but inside the stadium, the prices were actually reasonable. It was like 15-20$ for a logo T-shirt, and about 60-80$ for the jersey's because they had different styles. My scarf was a ridiculous 30$ however. Drinks are also expensive, so I recommend that anyone attending drink heavily outside the stadium.
I was not at the game last week so tonight was the first for myself and my son. We traveled in from CT, decided not to park in Harrison but went to Jersey City and took the Path from Journal Square, one stop to Harrison. Getting home was a breeze, we stayed the whole game and got back to home in Norwalk at exactly 10:30 which is about an hour and a half. Fantastic stadium, great atmosphere starting with fellow supportors on the trains and the quick walk from the station. Well done to the RB organization for pulling this off.
Had a great time at the game tonight. The stadium simply looks amazing!! People we need to sell that sucker out every home game and make it a fortress. The supporters section sounded awesome.
Anyone else have some joint pain from stomping on the metal floor in the Upper Section? My knee hurts this morning and I'm trying to figure out if it's age or the Arena.
No, but I was slapping that "clapper" thing so hard it fell apart. I have a bruise on my leg for my efforts.
Yeah the supporter section even sounded great on t.v. also, in the past many people would have thought that the club didn't have much of a supporter group when we were back in Giant stadium.
you know last night I swear the you suck.......spread beyond 101. Those clapper things might get annoying at some point, but they helped generate noise throughout the stadium.
The new stadium looked, and sounded, great out here in Direct Kickville. That is the first time I've watched more than a few minutes of a New York home game in many, many years. It's just been too painful from Giant's Stadium. Looks like a bright future for you guys.
There were people in 230 doing the you suck. and it sounded like they said asshole at the end contrary to RB's request that ESC/GSS not curse. that's what it sounded like at the arena, and on tv when i rewatched it on dvr. as far as the clappers i don't see them as annoying. it's an easy way for people to clap along with the south ward's chants. I feel like people would get tired clapping with their hands. I'd rather a loud stadium of clappers, than a quiet one. (there were some vuvuzela's in my section, though I didn't really mind them at all)
We actually were lol... You can hear it on tv as well (announcer even mentions it lol) ... Regardless, whichever way people were chanting, the point was still made
Had an even better time during the Chicago game than the Santos, (maybe its because this game actually mattered), despite the cold. I met a fellow on the subway ride home who has recently moved up from Florida and he told me the following: Well, New York is now the city where I live and the Red Bulls are the New York City team so that means I will support the Red Bulls. He then went on to tell me that he'll attend several games this year and buy an ST next season. So it's working guys, the Arena is working its mojo. I truly feel that this would have been much more difficult last season in that hellhole.
A shout-out (literally) from the NY Times... http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/sound-and-fury-at-red-bull-arena/
I'm just thinking out loud so I hope nobody gets offended. The great majority of people seem to dislike vuvuzuelas, partially because it's just an annoying sound and partially because it's an uninspired lazy way of making noise. How does everyone feel about drums in the supporters' section? I assume everyone likes them because they're part of RBNY tradition, and they do play a role in starting the chants and providing a beat. I just wonder if they sometimes stifle singing. I'm a pretty loud obnoxious person at games, and when a drum is right by me I find myself sort of just sitting back thinking...well there's plenty of noise, I wouldn't even be heard. Maybe I'm the only one. I don't hate them or anything, but I was thinking about it
The thing is that the drums are not rhythmically combined with the singing ala Argentine/Mexican/Brazilian. It's just noise for now. I was sitting next to the Santos supporters and they pretty much have it going. It'll take time. We can't compare our chanting with clubs that are a century old.
Well, as someone that doesn't sit in the supporters section, I can tell you that I hear more noise from singing and chanting than I do from drums.
I was in section 219 and couldn't hear our supporters section. The Fire supporters were pretty loud and had good chants going. The flares at the end of the game was icing on the cake.