Amen to that. We pretty much doubled anyone else's number, including the team with the famous fifteen year-old. And while I'm defending L.A., Mike Lastort, you might want to check your sig. "Outhouse" for the crown jewel of SSS in the the U.S.? Course, if you want to call it "our house" that would seem to be about equally wrong.
Well New York sucks so you can understand why the attyendance is low there. 20k in LA is fine, and 15k in DC was good too. New ENglands problem is that they screw up the entire season and no one cares by the time they eeek into the playoffs. The great thing for new England fnas is that 2 more teams in the league so Steve Nicol cant pull this suck all season and squeak into the playoffs crap he has been doing for the last 3 years.
I haven't watched the video yet (not sure I want to), but the place looked much more than half-full in person. Had either of those penalties gone in, the crowd would've blown the non-existant roof off. The tension was palpable right from the start. I doubt the broadcast really sent that feeling across.
You got that right. Talk about lost dreams... I just keep thinking about what the place would have felt like if those PK's had gone in, or if we could have pulled the equalizer out of our ass in those dying seconds. Sigh... Sh!t!!!!
It looked to me like it was thinning out as the game went--sometime right after the second PK? Or is that just my perception?
Watching on TV I got the impression of a very light turnout at the beginning of the game but it seemed to fill up considerably as the game went on. Don't know if it was late arrivals, people at the concession stands or just the section of the stands that ESPN focused on. I'm ecstatic that we'll have another home game at RFK but I do feel (a little) for the Crew fans' disappointment. At least you got to see Jay Heaps run into the net like a panicked monkey that's been shot in the butt with a defective tranquilizer dart.