It's as simple as this, beginning the season in March is ridiculous. We didn't have a game over fifty degrees until June. Then we got bombed consistently with rain once we got warm. My suggestion: If you're going to start the league early, start the teams out east in the west. What could be the harm in starting us out in LA or San Jose or Dallas the first three games, then having a massive homecoming?
Only if said double header was held in the shoe, otherwise the max we would have is 25,000 which I believe would not be enough to push us to the top The fact that we have a maximum capacity of 25,000 is also why we do not get double headers with the US nats (nor does the crew organization try to schedule double headers)
Which of course, is no longer feasible since the field width is maybe ten yards smaller than it was in 1998.
Didn't they do this in 1997, 1998 and so forth? I remember a few seasons when we played a few road games before playing home. I think the opener this year was because it was more dictated by TV than the league.
Columbus the only slide - BS . . . and I don't mean BigSoccer. DC had the largest Attendence slide of negative 20.4% . Source - http://www.mlsnet.com/content/02/mls0922attendance.html Dustin
In addition to the fact that four teams experienced attendance drops (although Chicago's was forced), the author uses some new math to get 17,511-17,429 to equal six. But hey, why let facts get in the way of an article?
Not surprisingly, This is also the same website that has a link on the same page that leads to: http://www.megasoccer.com/story/world/World/home/5169.html an article describing how Bruce Arena's boys are going to play Brazil as a sure fire test of there abilities on March 3rd, 2001
17,511-17,429=82 people difference on average. Now, where this putz went wrong was in thinking that If I divide the average difference of fans per game by the number of home games, then I'll wind up with the super average. 14 home games --- 82/14=5.857~6. This is just wrong. Let's look at this from a dimensional stand point --- the units on 82 are people per game. If we divide again by the number of games, we wind up with people per game per game. Therefore, we are missing 6 people per game per game this season. So, the question to ask is, who are the 80 A-holes?!? (We already know that Bailey8 and Eggy are 2 of the A-holes for living too damned far away to catch many games)
Mrs. Toon and myself didn't come to as many games as we had planned this year...so I guess that accounts for 2 of the 6.