Stadium News XV:: Tiny Stadium Nuggets > Chicken Nuggets

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So if the Pink Cows actually win this Cup, can we all then drive up to Harrison and torch their new stadium? There is no way they can get both a new stadium and the MLS Cup, is there?

 

with our luck, them winning the mls cup and getting a new stadium is the icing on the cake

but knowing how karma works, we'll go undefeated next season and lord only knows we'll even have a stadium plan, which is my only hope and dream at the moment to block out the need to drink to oblivion over the red bulls playing for it all and those damn new hurricanes actually playing like the old hurricanes

 

Shush! The bunch of you. Do Not Even Speak That Thought Aloud!

 

Whoopee! And here comes THE WATER!

 

At least we didn't have that situation facing us.

We, however, have neither a MLS Cup nor a stadium under construction.

Kansas City, on the other hand does have the stadium part: Wizards to begin stadium construction:

So construction can go forward in the current economy.

Interesting, that. Wasn't United's plan also to include a hotel with the stadium? I wonder what the plan is now? Didn't Uncle Vic say he'd have some word on the stadium before the end of this year?

 

37 days to go .....

 

Of course, earlier we had a countdown clock based on Payne's radio statement that he'd have a stadium announcement by the end of Spring.

At least they haven't pulled the old 60 to 90 day routine on us.

 

Seahawk - Did Payne ever tell us which spring he was referring to? We could always start that clock up again!

 

No they are only using it on a seasonal basis... "This spring..." or "by the end of the year".

 

Word.

 

What's gonna happen first, new stadium with terrace or we destroy rest of seats in Barra sections making it a terrace

 

Does that mean the past season's dismantling, probably not intentional, becomes a planned activity this coming one?

I'm for that. It's too easy to fall off of those damned things...particularly for us old farts.

 

it's always an accident

 

This is what we need in our new stadium...



Which, of course, is what we'll have in just a couple of years...

or this...



or this...

 

First, we need a stadium deal.

zzzzzz

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120302256.html?hpid=topnews

If Maryland and DC both end up fruitless how about building a stadium around the silver line? Just a thought

 

I'm pretty sure this is where we chime in and joke as long as there is rail they can move the team to West Virginia or St. Louis, etc.

 

OK. I'll be your huckleberry...

This is why I don't think St. Louis will get the nod from MLS for the next expansion round...the league investors are keeping it in their back pocket just in case there never is a stadium deal in the DC area...

And West Virginia...now there's an idea. Move the team closer to Ohio, such as to the WV capital, Charleston, and there's a great opportunity for large groups of traveling fans to liven up the TV coverage of games between the Crew and United. Much shorter drive time, particularly since they'd be located on the Western side of those annoying mountains.

On the 'seriously, though' side, the Silver Line won't reach Tysons (home of very expensive real estate) until 2013. It will take it another two years to reach Dulles, and I wonder how much affordable land with a big enough footprint is available anywhere near proposed stations. I strongly suspect those stations are going to be plunked down in already developed locations.

I don't think Virginia is going to be put in the 'possible' bucket. If we're talking 2015, I'm guessing a move to another city is much more likely. After a while having a money-losing soccer team has got to become a very wearisome hobby.

EDIT: However, having written the above, I came across this when I continued reading the Post article past the info on finish dates:

Hmmm...Uncles Vic and Will, are you on the case?

If nothing else, this should be good for another 20 or 30 posts...

 

I was going to post a serious response to the Silver line to Dulles article, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I just don't have it in me anymore. Virginia is out of it and every little piece of property along the Metro routes has been bought and earmarked for something. I don't see that getting another 20 or 30 posts even if the owners decided to build something out there.


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Except...your view of us not getting another 20 or 30 is based upon a very commendable, but flawed, assumption that logic and rationality trump emotion and unreasonable hope.

Remember, this is BigSoccer, and even if this United forum is a more highly refined version, it's still BigSoccer.

 

In the future I will refrain from posting relevant articles and ideas regarding the future DC stadium.

 

Are we counting responses to the Silver line article or 20 or 30 after you said 20 or 30? What if there are 26 or 31? Does that change anything? If there are 26 are you satisfied because you got 20 and then another 6 or do you want exactly 20. Need they even be sequential?


Aren't you glad this is a sticky?

You've been a member here to know better than that anyways. If you do post something relevant, make sure to include a picture of a cute animal though. In all seriousness, I hope my post didn't have a negative tone to it. It just that most consider anything along the proposed Silver line to be a trek for much of the fanbase. Having said that, most parcels are accounted for and it would take quite a bit of money and rezoning to get a stadium. There is little chance of VA or a local VA jurisdiction assisting in stadium money outside of some infrastructure and convenient public transport would be minimal. Also, in one of these stadium news threads, posters joked about Metro expansion and going to the stadium as long as their was rail service to it even if in St. Louis.



//4?

 

This is already in place. You take the Red Line to Union Station where you transfer to the Capitol Limited. In Chicago you transfer to the Texas Eagle which will bring you to St. Louis.

Of course MacFarlane & Chang have probably already seen this and are making appropriate plans.