Soccer? It's also very dangerous for players who aren't wearing padding and are constantly twisting and turning for 90 minutes up. Also, all the other northeast and Midwest teams.
The problem with summer schedule is that it does seem to have an impact on FC Dallas and Houston Dynamo attendance.
Just enough to provide some shade for the fans. Those lights are really expensive. Notts County acquired some for a problem area of the pitch and they cost $90k. They were repossessed.
In humid places like Florida or (parts of) Texas, it doesn't really cool off until extremely late at night.
If MLS were considering this switch in the slightest, this would have been the year to implement it, since basically the entire spring was cancelled due to circumstances outside of their control.
It cools down at about 4 am, except in the worst parts of the summer, in which case a retractable dome and a/c.
Don't most North American leagues have a split season? I'm sure Eurosnobs would love that. I only way it could be done I think is to have a Jan/Feb Eastern MLS is back tourney in FL and a Western MLS is back in NV, AZ or CA. Either that or non sunbelt teams could host games in the south, or maybe abroad. I mean La Liga wants to play a match in Miami, why not play a MLS match or two in the Iberian Peninsula? By the way, I don't care about this subject, just floating ideas.
The things we were on MLS. I thought it was just LigaMX that did the split season deal. So having found Costa Rica and Honduras also did, I was convinced that, yeah, they were avoiding the summer heat, quite sensible. But no, they begin their first half in July, run it into December, then the second begins in January and goes into, crap, I forgot, i think May. Anyway, July and August in Costa Rica and Honduras is somehow more uncomfortable than july and August in Houston and Miami, I think. I assume this is done to leave open the traditional WCup, Gold Cup window, but holy jeebus that's gotta be miserable. My conclusion: The weather over here makes scheduling a whole lot easier. We're cooler in the summer than, well, anyplace in the US, and warmer in the winter than anyone in the northern part of MLS. This notion that the leagues here are based on tradition neglects to note that tradition was established because, really who wants to play in 90 degree weather when you could play in 40 degree weather. they were not dealing with the sorts of weather extremes known to NA. Also, odd tidbit: Barca is north of all but 7 MLS cities, and it's considered the balmy south here. ..
Gulf Stream. An American businessman once designed a seawall out into the Atlantic to divert the Gulf Steam along the East coast of the USA. This would have made living here a lot more pleasant. Some US politicians were sold on the idea but it turns out some whiny European leaders weren't to keen on being instantly plunged into a never ending Arctic winter and the idea was abandoned.
Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay all have apertura and clausura (or finalizacion) seasons. Ecuador also but with a slightly different format. NASL 2 and NISA as well of course.
Of all of the building effects of climate change that are quite fascinating/terrifying, the wobbles from developing weakness in the Gulf Stream are just about tops.
Northern Europe is suffering from climate change just as much as the West Coast. The UK is struggling to cope with hot summers, cold winters and catastrophic flooding in-between, though at least their wine industry is growing.
So the arctic blast Texas had the other day makes the fall to spring calendar topic a bit counterintuitive...