They are expected the RFK field to handle about 100 combined home games and constant stadium reconfigurations. The pitcher's mound will be inserted and removed repeatedly and will temporary seating. I'll be surprised if the field holds up. Everyone has seen what happens at HFStival. I suspect we'll have FieldTurf in season 2.
If someone does, we'll need to get them an eye exam PRONTO! But I do like the idea of trampolines. no seats at all just big trampolines. And I trust any entity of DC gov't about as far as I can throw them. Which isn't very far. So until there is something signed, sealed, and delivered, I'm a skeptic, however right now, a happy one!
The other way to look at is: Think how funny a baseball diamond will look with soccer lines painted all over it.
I have briefly followed the issue of RFK. Why not move out to FedEx field? The field should be fine no? And although that stadium is massive, I'm sure it will be better for DC United in terms of field quality in the near future, until you guys get a stadium in 2007 or 08.
FedEx field, due to the two or three extra front rows added in the last three years, is too narrow to play soccer on. Also, Daniel Snyder would charge United and its fans out the wazoo to use his precious stadium, Im sure.
FedEx = no real metro access have to deal with the devil Daniel Schneider cost prohibitive - Dannie doesn't do anything unless its for the good of his own pocket
I have heard the field is too narrow as well... btw. havent had time to look at the article but what is the status of la norte?
I think the only way La Norte gets screwed is if they move the East/3rd Base seats between Baseball and soccer configurations and do not put up the stands behind the goal. But I think LN will be just fine with the sections that are currently around midfield, while the rest of us have folding chairs or something.
RFK Stadium (knows as Washington Stadium when it was built in 1961 or so) was designed to be a football/baseball stadium, and was the first one ever in the world. Others followed suit, like Pittsburgh's Three Rivers, Philadelphia's Veterans', and others all over the country. Most (if not all) "convertible" stadiums have been demolished. We're lucky that the same thing didn't happen to RFK after the Redskins left.
Baseball series that go into weekends typically run from Thursdays through Sundays. I think we'll probably have every other weekend at home since we have to share with the baseball team. If the "Expos" (or whatever they end up being named) play a Sunday afternoon game, the stadium people would have six days to get the stadium ready for a Saturday night soccer game. Bottom line is that people can quit worrying. Whatever they come up with will be fine, and in the long run we'll get our own soccer specific stadium at Poplar Point. It could be worse. We could be Fusion or Mutiny fans.
This is just not true. It's too narrow to play a World Cup Finals game on, but it wouldn't be any tighter than Spartan Stadium. Ideal? No. Doable? Yes. But moot. United will be at RFK.
I don't really know. We were sorta thinking you were going to be joining us, but now it looks like we won't have to move. Sachin
Burn in hell. Okay, maybe that was a little harsh. Burn in FedEx. There are only two choices for DC United: RFK or a SSS. I refuse to be run out of our home just because some rich pimp bought it. DC is a rent control city. We ain't goin' nowhere until we're ready.
How come we get all the brilliant avant garde crap, like the only airport in the world with "mobile lounges?"
Reading the article initially, I read that to mean that the entire area of moving seats generated that revenue, not just the supporter's sections. How many SE/BB are there? a few hundred? $90,000 divided by $20 (non-supporter Tickets there are $22, but less for season ticket holders) is 4500. There's no way the supporters sell 4500 tickets a game (or do they and I'm just a blithering idiot?). The movable seats are roughly 1/3 of the lower bowl, so that would put them at somewhere in the neighborhood of 7-8k seats. That sounds about right for the 90k figure, since the seats are rarely entirely full.