Pretty stupid, I guess. Especially when the Pontiac Silverdome is still standing.
Posted on 06/29/2016 7:58:23 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Yeah....all the bangers in the hood just love them some soccer!!!!!!
The city looks like a nuclear bomb hit it and they want to build a soccer stadium in the middle of it. It will look strange. How long before it looks as run down and beat up as most of the other unused buildings in Detroit?
Building a brand new stadium for soccer ?
Seriously, how stupid is that ? that’s a dumb idea anywhere in the country...
Ford Field would work just fine...for a new team...
I wonder how many MLS teams are actually viable entities....
Makes a great place to make peeps go hunger games on each other.
“How long before it looks as run down and beat up as most of the other unused buildings in Detroit?”
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About a year.
“Yeah....all the bangers in the hood just love them some soccer!!!!!!”
It’s for all the illegals and Muslims that are taking over our cities.
hacky sack stadium would be a better fit?
I’d prefer shoving a skewer stick in an anthill and watching the result. Far more action and entertainment.
1. Shrink the physical size of the city--that could happen within the next ten years.
2. Completely redo the city employees pension program--already done.
3. Transition the city from depending on the automotive industry to one based on US-Canada trans-border trade--about to happen with the construction of the Gordie Howe International Crossing bridge to bypass the bottleneck called the Ambassador Bridge.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Detroit could use a completed Wayne County jail more than it could use a soccer stadium.
Indeed.
This reminds me of the effort of Camden, NJ to have a minor league baseball team in town. They spent taxpayer dollars on a beautiful stadium—a dozen years later the team left after years of terrible attendance.
The empty stadium sits there as a reminder of the stupidity/corruption of local officials.
You can be sure any stadium construction project involves kickbacks to local officials and a ripoff of local and state taxpayers.
21,574 fans at STADIUMS that hold 60,000-80,000
17,826 fans at ARENAS that hold less than 20,000
Now I'm sure there are a stadium or two that hold less than 60 and an arena or two that hold more than 20, but to use this comparison is pure BS!
Also, I'll bet my next pension check that 21,574 figure is total attendance, not PAID attendance.
Figures lie and liars figure.
Aren’t the majority of MLS stadiums in the 20,000 capacity range?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer-specific_stadium
Aren’t the majority of MLS stadiums in the 20,000 capacity range?
Yes, but someone didn’t bother researching before.
His point is valid about that the NBA would likely draw more fans if the Arenas were bigger. Remember that some NBA franchises tried playing in football arenas and it didn’t work for most.
As for the poster who questioned the viability of the franchises . . . the league is designed to be lower cost by limiting the amount spent on ‘world class’ name players and having a very US-centric roster. You would think that would be an attractive feature to many of our Freepers.
If a stadium can be built that doesn’t require much public assistance (i.e. - limited to property tax relief for example) then why not? The Red Wings are very successful. It’s a pretty darn good sports city. The Tigers average about 30,000 per game.
What will save Detroit ultimately depends on disallowing it to be run by leftists or corrupt and incompetent black people.
That is the crux.
There is not a single black run city on this planet that is run competently.
Gotta say I was NOT aware that there were that many soccer specific stadiums.
However, MLS does NOT play solely in “soccer specific” stadiums. At least a half dozen teams play in much larger stadiums...RFK, Yankee, Gillette and more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Soccer
So my apples and oranges comparison stands.
BTW, I follow neither sport
YUP! But I corrected that in my #19.
NBA wouldn't play well in football stadiums because a lot of fans would be too far from the court.
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