Let BK drink, and let him run his team his way. Gillette is fine, will be better with new turf. New Englanders need to support the revs, but most bostonians enjoy the second largest baseball franchise, the Boston Red Sox. BK understands this, so no new stadium for u guys. just keep supporting the revs, and , hopefully, the team will, slowly, gain a larger fan base. Besides, imagine a world where gillette is full of rabid fans for every revs game.
I only want them to come clean about the 1-2 weeks news..or is that 2-8 months..or is that 36-84 years? I can never keep it straight.. Certainly know full well the idea of keeping something secret until the town/city meeting occurs and townfolk come out with pitchforks on account of the foreign game wanting a stadium...but the utter cryptic jibber jabber is so quintissential drunk Kraft..!! Oh well...hoping on the news.
Heard from someone over the weekend the Revs' stadium site isn't even in the GBA, that it's across the street from Patriot Place where the casino had been projected to be. Whether that's accurate I don't know, but my source definitely is connected well enough to trust.
Haha. I'd love to say no chance this is true, but unfortunately, it wouldn't even be surprising. That would be the end.
Right - I'm not saying I want that (definitely think it's the death-knell of this franchise if that's the case) or even necessarily believe him but that wouldn't (sadly) shock me anymore.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least that if Suffolk Downs gets the Casino license, they would soon announce SSS, Foxboro. It might make sense for Kraft to have it there and have it help drive Patriot Place throughout the summer. I know lots of you don't want to hear this but It's probably one thing they are considering.
I seriously doubt this. The organization wants a stadium in the city, or not SSS at all. Building near Gillette makes no sense financially.
They have said "urban core of Boston" and mbta accesible so many times and as recently as the supporter summit that I highly doubt they will do that. It's rare that I take their word but on this I will.
Building another, smaller stadium by Gillette would be insane. They'd have to backtrack from every public statement they've ever made about wanting to build a soccer stadium in the urban core. Plus, if they were committed to leaving the Revs in Foxboro, they'd be better off attempting to come up with a marketing and transportation plan that would help drive attendance up to 30K a game. Let's face it, if they were getting 30K a game, they wouldn't need to consider building a new stadium. About the only reason to build a Revs stadium in Foxboro would be that they could go to natural grass. I doubt that is sufficient reason.
In addition, they've said Gillette is a fine place to play soccer in the mean time. They're not in any rush.
We hashed this one out a long while back and IIRC there are some reasonable arguments for the SSS to be in the Foxboro complex. One very major reality is, just like for DCU, getting a desirable location down town may just not be possible. If it comes to having a small, intimate SSS in Foxboro within the next year or two or continuing to play in the Razor for the next decade while the Krafts try to leverage property and infrastructure from a city that has almost no willingness to support the project I'll take a Foxboro Rev Stadium. There is one thing that would make the Foxboro location reasonable--- good public transportation. I don't know what that might look like and how the could make that part of the project but that would make the deal a winner in my book.
The Krafts can find cities willing to support the project. Permits, infrastructure, general good will - that's there for the taking. What the Krafts aren't going to get is cities to hand them money or land. Foxboro won't hand them money or land either. The Krafts just happen to have property down there, which is just about the worst rationale for a long-term business decision you could conjure. Location matters. I'd hope they aren't foolish enough to think that a smaller stadium without football lines solves their problem. I'm pretty much the type of fan they're hoping to attract. I love this game. I follow MLS, foreign leagues and international competitions. I catch college games and WPS game in Boston. I'm planning on going up to Montreal to see a game this summer. I'm probably going to go to the Brazil game this summer. However, I do not spend one dime to see MLS games in Foxboro. Couldn't be less interested.
Baloney sandwich If they build a stadium in Foxboro they will continue to exist in near obscurity forever. Building a stadium there would be hundreds of millions of dollars wasted. They might as well stay in Gillette.