Comments on: U.S. Soccer budging on qualifiers in Portland, Seattle

By: charliej11

charliej11 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:26:28 +0000

I went to the US qualifier last time it was in Portland, btw. You have no idea until you have been there. It comes across incredible on TV, it is better than that, way better than that.
Same stadium ( not updated yet ) back then. Incredible.

They root for the wrong team, but it should be on bucket lists.

Seattle has to be the first choice. There will be a sell out, the tickets will be expensive, you know it will be loud, get over it people, just have it on the turf. I like having it in places like KC and Columbus, love the teams, love the fans, but get it in a real stadium with 67,000 fans for a home field advantage like Mexico does. ( Seahawks are 7-0 and the Sounders in front of packed houses, similar )

By: charliej11

charliej11 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:19:17 +0000

Yeah, I meant to blog this, so this is probably the best time to do it.

Sorry about that annoying thing in 2012. It is my resolution for 2013, quit caring so much.

Again, sorry.

By: sdbeisbol

sdbeisbol — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:21:31 +0000

Why doesn’t San Diego ever get any US games? It typically draws the best TV ratings for US games…especially during the WC.

By: dfstell

dfstell — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:45:00 +0000

I don’t get the angst. I mean…..they’d do a nice crowd, but as more and more soccer specific stadiums get built around the US, we have plenty of places that will do a nice crowd and be played on grass.

I’m sick of this attitude that somehow these cities are owed these games because they somehow did something special for US soccer. I mean, they do have great crowds, but their fanbases are also kinda annoying to the rest of the country because they overreact to just about everything. Don’t love their coach? Flame on! Don’t name their players to a Best XI? Flame on. Mentioned their fake grass fields?? Holy crap….FLAME ON!!! Mention that nobody else cares about the Cascadia Cup or that it can’t be important when only one of the three teams is any good?? They go nuts!