"Oh give me a home where the T-Bones roam, and the Kansas City Wizards might play"
Would it be unfair of me to refer to the "situation" in Kansas City a debacle? I'm not trying to be a smart ass, I'm just really on the fence about it. On one hand I recognize that it's probably not the best thing for the league and for the loyal KC fans to go shifting clubs from city to city; it seems to have panned out (so far) for San Jose & Houston but it's not a gamble that should be taken with any regularity.
On the other hand there is more support in a pair of dollar store pantyhose than in Arrowhead, which they can't play in next year. Several of the surrounding municipalities have flirted with building a home for the club, but no one seems ready to take them home just. And although the new ownership group is stellar, the don't seem to be ready or able to pay for the whole thing themselves.
The housing issue is so desperate that there is talk of the Wizards setting up shop next year in a minor league ballpark. Who even knew KC had a minor-league team (insert Royals joke here)?
It's hard for me to talk considering what team I support and the overly long-running joke that is the Harrison stadium project. But a team in the New York area is as vital as turkey on Thanksgiving; you aren't major league if you aren't in New York. But if you are sharing a minor league stadium in Kansas City I'm not so sure.
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how is a minor league stadium in KC any different than a division 3 college stadium in Naperville, IL, or a high school field in Southlake, TX? Those were equally crappy (and temporary) venues. The key word here is temporary.
The difference is that those crappy stadiums (and they certainly were crappy) were temporary fixes becuase there was actually a stadium in sight.
The other difference is both of those situations were almost 5 years ago, when MLS was just over half as old as it is now. That said if it were a one year deal with absolute stadium plans in progress, it'd be ok.
As a KCW fan, yeah it's embarrasing and yeah it's depressing and I'm sure it isn't helping the overall image of MLS (or KC for that matter). But it's temporary, so whatever. I just keep thinking "if it weren't for Lamar, then we wouldn't have a team" and so I'll deal with the sh!t until we get the best stadium in MLS and then all you can kiss our grass.
both of the responses to my original post do bring up a good point...a temp. home would be bearable, if there was a light at the end of the tunnel.
We've been jerked around in New York with promises and delays witch meant more promises. What the hell are you supposed to do in KC? You've got a team one day, the next day it's moving to somethingdelphia, then the team is staying but not playing in that Gettinghead Stadium, then a month later a you hear that the team will be there and that it's because of construction delays. Then the following week the team gets bought with promises of a real venue on the horizon.
Personally, I'd get a bunch of buddies together, have a tailgate in the officepark that houses the front office and throw fucking bricks through the front windows and spray paint "WTF" on the front door.
At least then they would know that they had fans that were passionate, gave a shit and were fed up.
...once again it is proven that just anyone without a clue can post whatever they want on the internet...
And that's what makes it great. It's like a sports bar without walls or a cover charge...anyone can share their most ridiculous opinions without the privledge of being an ESPN host.
America truly is a wonderful place, innit?
anonymous at 1:58.
That is untrue. Dallas moved to Southlake not because of a new stadium but because HSG did not want to pay for the Cotton Bowl again. Naperville was used for the EXACT same reason the Wizards need to find a temporary facility, because Soldier Field was unavialable due to renovations.
...once again it is proven that just anyone without a clue can post whatever they want on the internet...
What did I say that was clueless? I thought my snapshot history of what's happened combined with my Jersey reaction was quite appropriate.
This team has made no impact and it's management should be managing a local car wash as they seem to be getting no where.
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