When MLS decides to return to Florida, why not go to West Palm Beach instead of Miami? Surely with all the millionaires who live in nearby Boca Raton you shouldn't have any trouble finding an ownership group and possibly support for a privately and publically funded stadium especially, if they ever get those chads straightened out in Palm Beach County. Here is a profile on West Palm Beach, Florida: MARKET: (Population) 45th West Palm Beach 1,131,184 MARKET: (TV rankings by Nielsen) 39th West Palm Beach 700,850 West Palm Beach is 67 miles from Miami. The advantages of going to West Palm Beach: 1. City looking for its own identity and not living in Miami's shadow. 2. The fan base already established in Miami could also help support a West Palm Beach franchise. 3. This is more of a bedroom type community and personal income exceeds $40,000. (Analysis: If you lived in Dallas, Texas and you made $33,289 which is Dallas' MSA average per capita income per year, you would need to make $35,099 to maintain the same buying power if you moved from Dallas to West Palm Beach whose per capita income is $41,007 which means that this city has a $6,000 per capita base over one of Americas largest and most prosperous Cities.) Dallas does have a lot more corporate support! Source: Per Capita Income http://www.iowaworkforce.org/trends/metro.html Source: CNN Money--Cost of Living Calculator power.)* http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.html?step=form *I did talk with a person at CNN Money and they said that this is NOT the intended use of this calculator; however, I used it anyway. Why not look at West Palm Beach if and when MLS decides to move back into Florida?
The fan base in Miami which had trouble going to FtL. is going to drive to WPB for games? A big stretch.
West Palm Beach? Maybe I'm a little ignorant to florida culture/geography, but don't you have to focus on where there are soccer fans?
I work in the travel industry and the only people that go to West Palm Beach are senior citizens from New York and New Jersey. Ain't no soccer fans in West Palm Beach. Bring back the Fusion in a few years when MLS gets bigger.
That's a familiar tune! ...Then West Palm Beach should do find; they should have a fan base capable of averaging 35,000. I can't think of any city that is as superficial as this one: "Tulsa is a tall magnificantly groom hostess! You will not be there long before she casts her spell upon you. The area she encircles is called the "Magic Empire."--Readers' Digest! Can we get in on?...
Re: That's a familiar tune! Originally posted by Laramie4OKC should do fine; they should have a fan base capable of averaging 35,000. Only if games are played before dusk... I could see 35,000 for Buck-a-Fruitcup night, eh?!?... followed by a "Matlock" watch party on the Jumbotron... "Tulsa is a tall magnificantly groom hostess! You will not be there long before she casts her spell upon you. The area she encircles is called the "Magic Empire."--Readers' Digest! Can we get in on?... [/B] "Magnificently groom hostess?" "Magic Empire?"--- there's a couple of nick-at-night moments... "umm... Ward, I think you're being a little too hard on the Beaver." Sounds like a 1966 back-issue ya got there... And with a team in West Palm Beach... MLS could finally get the coverage it deserves... in READERS' DIGEST! Go West Palm Beach Geriatrics United!
Duh...any WPB team would be called Hanging Chads FC. Isn't it obvious?? Chad Deering would be their mascot/coach/star player.
WPB is a great area, but maybe not for MLS. If there were a lot of potential fans there, wouldn't they have shown up at some Fusion games? What is it, a 30 minute drive, tops? Pro sports just don't do well in Florida, and looking at the photo above you can see one of the reasons. Go to the game? Or grab some beers and a pole, head down to the intercoastal...
Re: Re: That's a familiar tune! U.S.Rufnex: Great reply: "Ward, I think you're being a little too hard on the Beaver..." ...And with that statement U.S.Rufnex, you could get even greater coverage in PLAYBOY! Got me again, I see you didn't fall for that one! Good Luck my friend!
Would they be called the WPB SuperGeezers (or maybe GeezerStars)? They could use Crankshaft (from the comic strip) as their mascot, and have him run over footballs in his schoolbus. Well, I thought it was funny.
ok then how do you explain all those South Americans playing soccer all day long in Dade? How do you explain the fact that International matches routinely draw 35,000 or more at the Orange Bowl? How do you explai the fact that 96 bars showed the Argentina-Brazil qualifier....all at standing room only? South Florida probably has more soccer fans than anywhere in the US....it's just that most of them thumbed thier nose at MLS.
MMM. <<South Florida probably has more soccer fans than anywhere in the US....it's just that most of them thumbed thier nose at MLS.>> good statement. N.Y.FUSION F.C. <<---next mls team!
Well, I could tell it was going to be a stupid and ill-concieved idea just looking at the title, but I think this one sentence explifies exactly how magnificently stupid and ill-concieved this idea really is.
No, they didn't thumb their noses at the MLS, it was the other way around. The first year, Fusion management was very arrogant, and that's being polite.