Since Michael Jordan............

I doubt it will make that much of a difference. People weren't rushing out to buy tickets to watch Michael Jordan sit in a Armani suit in his luxury box.

 

Wizards - schedule runs from October to April.
DC United - schedule runs from April to October.

Might want to rethink that thesis, pal...

 

wow they let you into UMD?!?

 

Hey sign me up!

 

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mmm flaming folks.. is that like bar-b-que?

nevermind.

thank god the caps season is over.

oh my god? did i just say that? yes, but their early exist, helps our entrance. sorry to say it.

 

Sports fans are not fungible. The corporate crowd that attends Washington Wizards games (not to be confused with Kansas ) generally are not going to attend DC United games. It's someone's gain, but probably not DC United's gain.

There is one way that it will benefit DC United though, even if we do not get a single extra fan. Now we'll once again be able to say that our attendance is higher than (or at least similar to) the local NBA team. While it's not all that meaninful once TV and ticket price are considered, it does have a certain shock value for those who claim that soccer is a peripheral sport. I'll happily start using that little factoid again.

-Digital

 

Calling me Benjie is trolling.

 

Just look at his avatar man, I woudln't be messing with Knave these days.

 

Shockingly familiar... I'm not sure, but that may be the team crest from the Vermacht team in "Victory"

Just jokes, Knave, just jokes!!

As far as MJ, it's kind of a non-issue only as far as it effects how the community, i.e. politicians, civic leaders, etc. change their patterns of support for local teams. In that case, I don't see a problem for United, mainly because we exist outside the radar of the kind of movers and shakers the NBA desires to attract. Just my $.02

 

basketball???? on HERE??????????
Whadarya. NUTS???????

Mutants in ill-fitting clothes, big damn deal.

 

Unless Michael Jordan suits up in a United kit and I don't know, scores a goal at RFK, he will have no affect on United attendance whatsoever.

The only thing that will increase attendance is putting a better product on the field.

Ed

 

......who's this Michael Jordan character?

 

Sign him up, give him some rudimentary heading lessons and teach him the offsides rule, have him go hang out in front of the goal and lob high balls in at him.

We couldn't possibly score fewer goals than we are now, right?

 

He could be that target forward we've been needing...

 

I'm not sure who the Vermacht aka "unmade" team in "Victory" was but I do remember a team from the Wehrmacht aka Germany Army...

 

I know a stripper from camelto that goes to UMD.

 

How funny is that little typo?

 

Camel Toe = always funny, just like midgets and farts

 

And monkeys and mullets!

K