PBP: The ONLY Match that Matters Fire v. Inter Miami CF (MESSI MATCH!) 10.4.23 7:30 p.m Soldier Field

Crazy... Pretty sure I didn't see Justin Fields or DJ Moore out there but maybe I just missed them

 

They said when they opened the upper deck they brought in ‘the Bear crew’…none of them knew how to process the STH QR food discount and were generally ‘deer in the headlights’ about everything…and there were more of them

 

I took a friend from out of town with some mobility issues to the game, so rather than take CTA and do the big walk over, I bought a parking pass.

The line of cars to get into the south lot (where my pass was) started on on the Dan Ryan about even with the18th St exit at 5:45 when I joined that particular queue. It took *3* hours to get into the parking lot so we entered the stadium at half time.

There was *no* control of the line to get into the lots as near as I could tell and certainly not enough people *in* the lots dealing with entry and parking.

I guess the crowd took the team by surprise.

On the plus side, the Fire *did* set some econobox car on fire for us as in-line entertainment and saved all the goals until we were there.

 

#LEGEND

 

If only there was some way they could've known how many attendees to expect...

 

I’m wondering what they did differently than a bears game or if it’s just a totally different beast where it being a Sunday and with a tailgating culture that the parking flow is less bunched

 

Sick of paying $16 per beer (and in an attempt to avoid spending 3 hours of my life trying to get out of the parking lot) I decided to leave around the 65th minute once the Fire had their lead.

Upon exiting I saw that there were still hundreds of people in line trying to enter the stadium, through the one gate still open.

If you're gonna price gouge the casual fan on tickets, screw over the STHs out of the "make-good" offers for no Messi, and jack up the prices of concessions for everyone by 35%, the very least you could do as an organization is make sure that folks who've spent all that cash are able to enter the venue prior to the 70th minute.

https://streamable.com/154jip

Truly shameful stuff.

 

That being said, I'm thrilled by how the team performed "on the big stage" and hopeful that they can carry this momentum into an exciting postseason run... And yes I know - that this ish to the #OptimismThread

 

I’m still waiting on a Lyft home…

 

Anybody know what the field dimensions are when soldier field is used for soccer?
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No but I’m glad they moved the on field seats to the east side…it made it so we can *almost* see the sideline and corners from the 208-209-210 High dollar sections.

 

Six hour round trip. I am used to four.

Pete (would be bitter if the result was different)

 

Shut up.

Pete (is in row 5 in section 110 and can't see that line any more)

 

Cool beans Sofascore indicates an 8.3 and CFFC shows MOTM

 

The soccer field configuration eats up nearly all the available area so the viewing angles are bad. I was just curious what the actual dimensions were.

 

The walk of shame.

 

Herbers had himself a GAME. Take a bow Shaq & MHS. What a game Gimenez. You ********ers made me proud.

 

Another good game by Dean...

...but he was entirely responsible for the penalty.

Pete (thinks that's two straight otherwise good games by Dean where he coughed up a bad goal)

 

Nothing different, going to a Bears game is a nightmare. The Fire did amazing, the location sucks when 60k show up during rush hour.

 

The PK call was a huge failure by the AR and ref.

EDIT: And VAR.

 

The Fire made $9.5M from this game, which is a record for a single MLS game. $16 Modelos will do that.

Credit to those who made the “Fix it, Joe” sign. This city deserves that type of performance and that type of crowd more often.

 

OK, so the last time I went to a Bears game was the *first* year at NSF, but my recollection then was that they had actual traffic control folks dealing with LSD and ramps from the expressways and the parking lots had a LOT more people helping folks get in and parked. That's not "nothing different" unless they stopped doing it and it would have made a massive difference. The cars weren't getting into the lots *nearly* fast enough when I got there.

 

He threw his arms out wide to make himself big. Every referee that sees that is going to give the penalty. We don't have an actual complaint on that one.

It *clearly* hit just below his elbow and moved off in a different direction. It takes denial of reality to think that something wrong happened on that call.

 

Or just a reading of the rules: