Alert: Stadium News, Speculation and Possible Truthiness XXV: The Secret Word is... Possibilities.

My crane fell.

 

wow - talk about a great set-up line

 

My ********ing job is blocking that site now! WTF!? I'm done here.

 

not to startle anyone, but i believe there are three cranes...

 

Just read on Goff's blog that there is a college football game at RFK today. Great. Can't wait to see those lines...

 

You beat me to it. As soon as I read the article in the WaPo (a "rivalry game between Howard and Morehouse), all I could think of was "Great, now the field will have football lines for the rest of the season."

I am so tired of this shit.

 

I thought we had this discussion months ago. FWIW, tickets on Groupon were only $8. I might go if I weren't in Greenville. The ACC comish was recently interviewed several times promoting their bowl game at RFK too.

 

Per this article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...otball-class/2011/09/09/gIQASpV6FK_story.html it says the football game will enable Events DC to put 3-4 million dollars into renovating the stadium.

 

I think that means they're going to clean the restrooms.

 

it won't be enough

 

According to the article .....

 

So they're going to hose the restrooms down then put a pack of seat liners in every other one?

 

Well that will make for a great first impression for my first games at RFK. Hopefully, they'll have faded by the time I get there for the CUSA and RSL matches.

 

After reading the article I thought RFK would be drawing a huge crowd. Nope, 18K for this "big" game.

 

But I bet the field is trashed, big game or not.

 

No way there was that many there today. I watched the first few minutes just for that.

 

First, Howard and Morehouse are far from athletically renowned universities - so 18,000 is pretty big for them. And that's higher than most United attendances this season. Also, the game is more of a social event for alumni, who probably weren't rushing to get into their seats during the first few minutes of the game.

 

I would much rather an American Football game be held elsewhere. The field will now be torn up and have those damn lines on it. RFK hosting a game like this has no benefit for United. Those awful lines only remind us that we don't have our own stadium. On a bright note, I figured how to pay for the our new stadium. We can take the 235 million that Howard University receives each year from the Federal Government and use that to pay for the complex!

 

On the subject of this thread: Not a peep in months about anything stadium-related (since the March interview with Will Chang, I think). I sure hope he is close to bringing on a new, deep-pocketed partner...or even selling the team to someone with the money to build a stadium. I've always liked him as an owner but something needs to happen (that doesn't include Baltimore).

Please indulge my venting. I know I'm not adding anything of substance myself.

To end on a positive note, substantial strides have been made on the field. Maybe in a few years we'll look back at 2010 as the low water mark for the club...and the ascent back to the top has begun.

Yep. That's what I'm going with.

 

If Chang is bringing in new investors or selling the team, it's likely going to happen very quietly until it's announced to the public. Something like that is a lot easier to keep quiet than stadium planning.

I'm not saying this is in the works, just that silence on this front can mean many things. Silence on the stadium issue is probably a sign that there is nothing going on.

But I'm of the opinion that a stadium deal can't happen unless the team gets big-money owners.

 

What if it's the deeper-pocketed or well-connected new investor who wants to move to Baltimore? Still eager to have him on-board?

 

Stadium deal publicity certainly hasn't helped them in the past, so the silence makes sense whatever they are or are not up to. It's just frustrating as a supporter.

Yep.

Nope.

 

I don't think that Baltimore would be an attractive market for a big-money owner. I just don't see someone spending millions to buy an MLS team, then moving it to a second-tier market.

 

If DC won't build a stadium, it will become a 3rd-tier market making Baltimore look better - or maybe the investor could just be a big-money Baltimore guy. No major DC guy would own a piece of a Baltimore team and I am sure the same is true for a big Baltimore guy buying into a DC team.

I'm just talking hypothetically, but you make a giant leap there I do not necessarily agree with.