Those KC teams were full of assholes as well. Roger, Colin, Nagamura, CJ, Dom, Julio, Kei. It’s no wonder RSL/Hou wanted to murder them. Honestly Hou’s squads were just as bad if not worse back then. The players hated RSL more but the fans definitely hated Hou more.
Those Houston teams could dish it out but couldn’t take it. One of the “whiniest, crying-est to the referee” groups I’ve seen.
That MLS36 show that lasted about 4 episodes was great. The episode on Brad Davis he kept going on and on and on about Houston had never lost at home (honestly a fucking impressive feat, like 4 yrs and no home loss) then it featured the KC game where we beat them at the last second off a Besler long throw to Colin. They also did an episode on Colin/Besler and the whole thing was Colin talking about the best back line in MLS history, the stats are the stats! We lost that match as well 2-1, can’t remember who we played but first time all year we gave up more than 1 goal. Also, Colin had a corner scramble end up with him, ball on the goal line, empty net and he fucking whiffed and fell on his ass. They quit making that show after those back to back episodes.
Also, Vermes once signed both Brad Davis and Brad Evans two of the biggest villains in SKC lore. What a prick.
lol. Jimmy Conrad got Giovinco to play in his TST team. Going to have to find a stream to watch our Atomic Ant one more time.
The o/u of John Fisher knowing the names of people that work for the Quakes (on/off field) is maybe 5 tops. As a Galaxy and Angels fan, I have no love lost for the Quakes and Oakland A's, but no fan deserves John Fisher as the owner of a team they support. Just an abomination of an owner and I root for an Artie Moreno owned team.
So my buddy has been working with this collector on trying to sell off some of his stuff. He has binders of the cards from every season. At least one season, he had a goal to get literally every single card autographed
Pretty crazy at the revenue teams are making now. Not on the same level as Europe or even MX but it’s only been a handful of years since we had like 3 teams in the black and a few that were break even.
Aren't these numbers mostly nonsense? How are they getting revenue numbers for individual MLS clubs? How can a club be worth almost a billion dollars and they rent a baseball stadium?
The American market and controlled costs, and there’s always leaks with revenues by owners to media. I have no doubt the LA clubs would both sell for at least $1 billion each, especially if the San Diego Wave of the NWSL were just sold for $120 million. There’s also the S.U.M. factor when becoming an MLS owner.
The Messi effect is also very real. 72K @ Arrowhead a conservative $250 a head (what we paid for upper deck) comes out to $18 million. Not to mention concessions/merch (but minus the cut the chiefs and county each take). But the entire roster in 2023 cost $14.5 million. One match paid the entire teams wages plus a bit.
Imagine what the MLS team valuations would be if there weren't so many stupid restrictive roster rules.
I think so but that all goes into the SUM pot that gets distributed back evenly to the teams. IIRC, that was a Seattle thing because the league told teams to build SSS then Seattle joined and played in front of crowds twice as big so the owners that built stadiums got pissy.
I believe the league gets a cut of non premium tickets. The teams get to keep all money from premium areas. It’s why FCC built the most club seats and suites in MLS for a soccer stadium. Or at least it was the most when they opened their stadium.
there's one game tomorrow, Columbus are the reigning Cup champs and Cincy the SS yet they're playing tonight at the same time as 90% of the league :/