I stumbled across this picture yesterday. This was from the home opener in 2019. Forgot about this rendering.
Has anyone noticed that the Hamburgler is BACK in McD's commercials..... Do we have NIL on the Crew boards??
Apparently the "You Fight For Us, We Fight For You. Together, We Save The Crew" tifo was six years ago today. One notable part is the corner of the upper deck being totally empty. Yeah, there were people actively boycotting, but since 2021, it'd be totally unthinkable to have the upper corners be empty.
Memoriesssss. 25 years ago today, the first soccer-specific stadium in the US, Historic Crew Stadium, opened (from @FOS) pic.twitter.com/oXE3aRHD7K— Mark Fishkin #🟦 (@MarkFishkin) May 15, 2024
Yes and no. Depends on how you slice it. It's true enough. Interestingly, Lamar Hunt hisself coined the term Soccer Specific Stadium, and in the sense that HCS was the first purpose-built stadium of that description, it's entirely correct.
I attended games there. It was cute. But if we're including 5000 seaters then there are other debateable stadiums that predate HCS as well. They don't count, and neither does Blackbaud or whatever it's called now. YMMV Frankly, I was waiting for someone to mention Lockhart.
Blackbaud, including the famous pub with the great scarf room, was torn down a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSC_Health_Stadium
What a night that was. 2-0 victory. Crowd was amazing. The construction folks on the temp stands were having a blast too.
The home of the dos-a-cero opened with a 2-0 win over the Revs and closed (MLS matches) with a 2-0 win over the Fyy-ure.
It was there, but it was always open-air as intended until it got renovated into the Huntington Club or whatever the first name was...or was it originally the Upper 90 Club as an enclosed space? I still have some tokens somewhere...