Seattlest: Why Major League Soccer Is Never Coming To Seattle

Doritto99

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:06:21 -0800

Looks like you're wrong. They're annoucing us getting a team on Tuesday. Oh, and guess who's partly funding it. Paul Allen. :p

sc-1

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:30:01 -0800

And Paul Allen will never be about MLS, either. Which could be a very good thing.

Dan

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:02:56 -0800

I understand that most or all of the SSSs are going up in the burbs, and I meant to say something about how Paul Allen has never been about the burbs.

A

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:43:43 -0800

You forgot Toronto. They'll be in town.

SC-1

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:36:12 -0800

To further my point...the new MLS stadia are ALL outside the city limits of their namesakes, as are most of the planned ones. LA plays in Carson, Chicago in Bridgeview, FC Dallas in Frisco, in 2007 Colorado will play in Commerce City. Real Salt Lake will end up in Sandy, and KC Wizards were recently trying to get approval for a Johnson County pitch. Meanwhile, Red Bull "New York" will play in Harrison, New Jersey. Only DC United have expressed interest in keeping their stadium within their actual city. New England have never played in Boston. Welcome to MLS.

Dan

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:35:35 -0800

Doh, I'm sorry - I thought I had a link to you in there. I'll add it.

SC-1

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:29:21 -0800

If you are gonna steal my thunder virtually line for line, at *least* link to me. ;) http://soundercentral.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=327 As for your premise re: 91...um, no. "Seattle" was NEVER going to host an MLS team outside of Qwest Field. Now Midway, Kent, Fife, Tacoma...all of those places, which fall outside the 91 banner, are still possibilities. Seattle proper has never had affordable land for another outdoor venue outside of the influx Seattle Center / Memorial Stadium site.

Jason

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:27:31 -0800

MLS screwed any chance Seattle had at MLS by promising a team if we built Qwest Field, only to change their minds. While I agree that its best that MLS teams play in SSS, there's no way anybody in King County is going to vote to build one after building Qwest with that promise. First and Goal didn't help with its decision to put in turf instead of natural grass.

sportsfan

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:06:31 -0800

The problem, I believe, is this: "Major League Soccer wants all its teams to play in small, soccer-specific stadiums..." As a voter (and a pretty big sports fan) I'd be happy to support almost any multi-use stadium. It's been done forever. It works. But when whiny rich guys start saying they need Qwest field to play a game in 8-10 times a year, that just seems.... idiotic, childish and entitled. Wait - rich white guys acting entitled?? Unfathomable. And don't even start talking about Paul Allen's constant hand jobs from Nickels.