If it is in the City with a roof and there is no music piped in I am good. Real good Chicago hot dogs. That is good for me.
on the subject of terraces, there's a renewed interest in them in europe. i can't remember the specifics, maybe someone can chime in, but i remember reading about a stadium either in germany or holland that has retractable seating in the supporters end. you've got terraces for the regular games, but if you're playing in a competition that requires an all seater, you just pop'em out. how many here have stumbled drunk over thet seats at old SF. not me of course, but you get my point. they can be a hindrance. oh...about the sirens and lights...you've gotta be facking kidding me. might as well bring back that brazilian band. WE are there to make the noise, not some facking machine.
WRONG! I've lost many brain cells to the Goose. Good stuff. I want a Fire Pole! Maybe the players could enter the field that way
I thought I'd add this and it's not really new stadium specific as it applies in SF too, but you all know that hunk of concrete from the front of section 8 in the old stadium? well apparently it'll be going in the players' tunnel at SF (and presumably any future stadium) for the players to touch on their way out.
First off, take the narrow pitch idea and shove it somewhere. I come out to watch soccer, not ^%#$^#%ing pinball. I hate watching games on a narrow pitch. Cardinal stadium and wherever it is SJ plays make me freakin crazy. We had a pretty wide pitch at SF and I loved the way our game looked there. We have finally adapted to Cardinal stadium, but dammit I don't want to stay this way. It gets ugly and congested and it rewards the Bob Proberts of the league. Not what I want as a fan. As for folks offended by the siren idea, welp, I just don't get it. When we score, there is going to be screaming, no doubt, but a lot of different stadiums have traditions and they are what I find cool about the places. Seein the guy in leiderhosen go down the damn slide in Milwaukee, that was cool and memorable. How could having something specific for us on goals beyond stupid generic fireworks detract from the experience? I just don't get that.
Now that's cool! We should have a chunk of it at the top of section 8 so everybody can have a touch when they enter section 8.
I think the point was that we don't need it TOO wide. 75 yds is fine. HDC was made for 85yds but the team didn't like it that wide and they moved it in, and now the fans are too far from the action. I dunno. I just don't care for music after goals, I wouldn't be too bothered by a hockeyesque foghorn.
actually 70-72 yards would be perfect only a tool thinks everyone in the world plays 75-80 fields soccer is meant to be played on fields of all sizes... that's why they call them home fields... so you have an advantage... you are use to it make everything the same and you lose that think people, think it's not hard
Well 75yds by whatever doesn't necessarily go against the idea of having seats right up on the field. Personally, I'd like to see us with a 75yd wide field. 85 or whatever was planned at HDC is ludicrous but 75 shoiuld be comfortable. Maybe we could make it really short
Yes, nix the narrow pitch. That goes for SJ as well. I want to see soccer, the flowing beautiful game, not some physical debacle.
And how many games will you be attending a year here, Mr. Portland? Ah-thank you. People get worked up about these new stadiums being "homes for american soccer" or some BS. No. Columbus Crew stadium is THEIR home. The Toolbox is the Crayola's home. Mary Kay Park at Frisco Square (all pink of course) will be DALLAS' stadium. Harrison will be for the METROS. This place, if and when it comes about, will be solely and specifically OURS. I don't give a sixth of a shit what other teams do with their stadiums, and i don't want anyone nosing in on ours telling us what we should do. Butt the hell out This will be OUR house.
seriously.... we ran into this problem in the 60's and 70's with the cookie cutter stadiums of baseball & football... busch stadium, the one the giants use to play in, the phillies stadium, the reds stadium, etc. fields were identical everywhere who the *#*#*#*# wants that? i want something that immediately says fire we have a narrower field or a shorter field something that gives us an advantage every time we step on the field... besides the one from the fans i don't want us playing on a 75x120 yard field like everyone else because some stupid euro posing dumbass is under the impression that the beautiful game is always played on 75 by 120 yard fields and anything less is criminal get real
Please explain? I watch soccer and prefer the beautiful game, once played by the Fire at SF, but much more difficult on a narrow pitch. I believe I made myself clear, but maybe it is the internet or something that is getting in the way.
Hadn't read it that way, but yah, am all for that....keeping the seating close to the actual field of play is good, I guess I am just twitchy from almost 2 years at cardinal stadium, I liked our game better on the wider pitch. I don't need 85 yds to be happy, but 70 yds is definately too narrow for my taste....and no, I don't want every pitch in the world to be identical, I just loved the way my home team played when they had room to move and grass to step on...we are getting the grass back, I want to make sure we get the room back as well.
Sorry but Mr. Portland watches games on television and plans on attending several games throughout the league, including the new Firehouse. I have just as much right to state an opinion as anyone else on these boards.
It's not the size that matters. It's how you use it. Which is why there should be alligator pits and swinging axes on the field.