Just want to know why many people call the HDC the Cathedral ? What happened to Victoria Street or Wood Shack ?? How did it become a Cathedral ?
When the HDC opened last June, someone (Sigi or Don Garber or Doug Hamilton) was quoted as saying that all soccer fans in the US have to make a trip to the HDC to visit this "cathedral of soccer." "Cathedral" is just a place where all fans can gather to worship the game of soccer. I know: corny. Many Galaxy fans still refer to HDC as "Victoria Street." I think an MLSNET.com columnist (Jeff Bradley?) coined the "Wood Shack" nickname but that never really stuck.
Thanks for the info Guamster. I didnt know about the Sigi quote, lol.. it is quite lame. Victoria street sounds better but i have yet to read a report where the HDC is called Victoria Street..
Worse yet, one of the regular soccer columnists thinks "Tool Shed" is clever. Agree, "Victoria Street" is classier. I think I saw it in print once, but it obviously hasn't caught on much beyond a small group of the faithful.
Actually Max Bretos and Allen Hopkins the announcing team for KCAL and Fox Sports World use Victoria Street on fairly often. I find "cathedral" too generic and for the record - Sigi called it a Mecca for American soccer fans.
The HDC/Victoria Street is nice, but come on, the Cathedral? When I see that word, I would think more of the gothic behemoths in Europe than a soccer stadium.
c'mon this is california, they'll call anything a cathedral out here without even the slightest sense of irony
I like The Cathedral. It's much more transcendent. Victoria Street is so British. Its "significance" is lost on the average fan. Plus, it stakes our claim to ahving the premier US soccer stadium...
A cathedral is something one vomits into. Personally, I like "The Shed". Simple and unpretentious. OK, in the spirit of democracy, how about a compromise? The Victorian Shed.....very classy.
nope Victoria Street is used by the anglophiles. Not all soccer fans are anglophiles, so the name has an uphill battle. Cathedral sounds too formal, and it always makes me think of Cathedral HS. Calling it mecca will get Rumsfield on you in a hurry so be careful. I don't use any proper nouns when I talk about it.
Oh no you didn't! Victorian Shed sounds like horse's stable. In the spirit of the Simpsons: Newsflash, the HDC is not a thoroughbred racetrack.
I agree with everything uclacarlos says. We in the Riot Squad have been called out by other mls fans as being wannabe Brits and I can't really argue against that point. While some of the stuff we use from them is too good not to use I think we in general need to stop lifting their stuff and be a bit original. Also, when it comes to stadiums in England being named after streets, I think - although I may be wrong- that it has more to do with the stadium being located just a few feet from the actual road, giving much more of a connection between the stadium and street. They have stadiums like this back east like with Wrigley Field, but here on the west coast there's a parking lot in between the stadium and street so they don't really have the same type of connection. On top of that I think the actual address of the Home Depot Center is on Avalon and not Victoria. But in the long run whatever sticks I'll go with as long as we can stop calling it after a company.
That was a quote from "Theres something about Mary" And sharing our house with anyone let alone Chivas is never a thing to joke about.
Help Sadly nothing has ever been more truer, and more apparent than that statement right there. That is why I will call it the " Black hole" until the clippers of soccer come to foul our child, the home depot center.
I dont think the HDC is big enough to be considered a Cathedral.. It is still lacking much footy history before it can be regarded as one of the US most Holiest of footy stadia.. Any chance the HDC could be expanded ? Even if just to accomadate the Mexico fans. A cool 35k should do the trick and be big enough to host World Cup games..
I call it Victoria Street when the Galaxy are playing, and the Home Depot Center when anyone else is there. I've never called it the Cathedral. Anyway, if we called it the Synagogue, we couldn't play Saturday games, could we? The HDC is a lot better looking than the cathedral they actually did build in downtown LA. Eight hundred years ago freaking French peasants could build wonders of the world in Paris, Chartres and Rheims. Today we can put dune buggies on Mars, but we can't build anything better than that glorified grain elevator called Our Lady of the Molested Children. (I seem to have gone slightly off-topic.)