What is the problem here? Not enough noise? Don't you want to escape the rat race? Wouldn't you pay $75 to escape the sounds of the city? Why not get yourself a good novel, curl up in a Moda seat during a game, and enjoy nature?
Economics says that a game experience is worth 20,000 fans x 75 price = $1.5 million. If 5 paying fans show up, they should each be willing to pay 1.5M / 5 = $300,000 each. This is probably the biggest bargain in the world right now. You should empty your other investments and buy all the tickets you can. What is your complaint again?
You think the average 'Bama fan or Boston Bruin fan or L•ker fan or NASCAR fan would be able to come up with that list? Heck, I'm a pretty major sports fan and know more about EPL than MLS
How many fans can name the NHL teams? I could maybe come up with half of them. I was looking at soccer and its crazy how popular it is in the rest of the world. The most valuable team in the US is the Dallas Cowboys at $2.5 billion but there are 3 European soccer teams with more revenue than them and worth more billions than them. The great thing about MLS is there are 35 games a year over 8 months so you don’t have all the meaningless games as the NBA/MLB/NHL have. I don’t need to see 4 Blazer games in 5 nights, especially when teams are intentionally sitting players out because there’s too many games. Soccer games are under two hours and don’t have any advertisements. I enjoy the NFL but there are so many damn ads its ridiculous, every injury has ads, every replay, between the touchdown and extra point, after the extra point but before the kickoff, after the kickoff and before the offense is on the field. I’m very interested in Soccer and could see its popularity taking off in the US. The rivalry we have with the Sounders is a ton of fun and gone in the NBA because taxpayers wouldn't fork over hundreds of millions for an arena.
Good one, but they changed their name to the Red Bulls for monetary reasons. I'd say its much more likely that people in Portland can list off the team names (I can probably do them all), than in any other city.
Yeah they have a long season, I’m not sure why its so long but the # of games is perfect it comes out to ~17 in Portland so you have 2 or 3 a month. The NBA has 7 or 8 games in Portland a month. The question should be why the heck does the NBA have 82 its fatiguing to follow so many as a fan. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to play all of those.
I could probably name 50 foreign soccer teams... MAYBE five MLS teams. Sent from my banana using Tapatalk 4
Because playing twice a week for a whole season is too much for the players. During the season sometimes they have midweek league games, and sometimes they have games for other competition(us open cup)
I don't buy the "moda center" boycott so they'd rather root for a team who plays at..... Jeld-Wen field. Yeah, no.
I mentioned it as a tongue-in-cheek hypothetical. Though I do believe the competition between the Timbers and Blazers for sports-going dollar is real. Since the Timbers don't play for two weeks (WTF?!) attendance would naturally go up a bit.
Back from the game. Tonight was much different than Sacramento. Last game there was literally two 200 sections with less than 50 people in it (took a picture with my phone but don't know how to post it) Tonight those same sections were 75-85% full. Weird the announced attendance is slightly higher as it felt more alive tonight. Lots of Piston fans. Cheeks interacted with crowd. Sheed was calm and collected. Monroe and Drumonds are big boys. Ate at Guac Tacos . . . give it a C+. Sizzle Pizza continues to be bland although it was a little hotter than before. So far my only thumbs up is Killer Burger.
