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Metromaniac01

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#1372723 I Miss All Of Y'all

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 06 October 2020 - 03:19 PM

Dude that is so funny, i had to go to Newton, NJ DMV office yesterday and was singing Sparta Metro Firm song in my head while driving along route 15! :cheers: 

 


Fuck Newton! Bunch of SMF wannabes. I am glad to hear the songs live on. They have aged well with the times! :ph34r: 




#1372667 I Miss All Of Y'all

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 05 October 2020 - 03:06 PM

Howdy Metro brothers and sisters!

 

I am reaching out to you all from South Carolina. I do love it here, but I miss my Metro family. I imagine most of us have been more isolated than usual this year. I wanted to let ya know that I am thinking of ya. Even you complainers!  :P 

 

I can't wait until the next time we tailgate or share a drink. Until then, stay healthy. :cheers:




#1366357 All coronavirus-related arguing

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 07 July 2020 - 09:23 PM

I dont wish life changing harm on him, but I do hope his experience with this virus changes his tune.


 

Couldn't say it better.




#1365538 The Tim Howard Story - coming to a theater near you

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 09 June 2020 - 02:20 PM

Wont watch it unless theres a scene with the
Youll always be a Metro chant.
Was it this game?
http://www.metrofana...ory.jsp?ID=1391


That was my first Metro away game. Couldn't miss it.




#1364775 10Mac Crew, Assemble!

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 15 April 2020 - 04:38 PM

Be careful, 10MACers!
https://edition.cnn....ness/index.html


 

Stop harshing my mellow mannn.




#1364421 RBA can be loud AF

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 01 April 2020 - 04:09 PM

Not lately man, everytime im in 101 i feel like a stranger with politically correct people man everyone afraid to yell shit fuck or anything so i just giving up until og crew makes come back or playoffs or hawk shows up at my door or something lol

 

Edit:  Only one shalalala per game should be allowed :lol:


 

I believe it. I can remember many a times when GKs in front of 101 were rattled. I even remember the family members of some GKs trying to get us to stop! :P

 

This is a professional sports team in the Tri-State area. Heckling should be assumed. There's a HUGE difference with in-stadium atmosphere between Supporters Groups that are family friendly and those that are there to rattle opponents. One of those is fun to me, one of them is not.

 

Late addition: Despite the vulgarities coming from 101 in the past, I always felt we had a very open and accepting section to anyone that wanted to join. If you came to 101 and were willing to sing, yell and even heckle the opposing team, you were instantly a brother or sister of 101.




#1361293 Unpopular opinion alert

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 11 February 2020 - 03:12 PM

I understand people gave issues with the soda can company being the new owners and blah blah blah blah, but just thankful that it is not a tampon companys logo on our jerseys


 

Someone has high standards.  :)+

 

I don't think anyone here is asking for Metro quality of play. Its the whole idea of being named after a product and existing solely to be a marketing tool that rubs people the wrong way. It's not a difficult concept to figure out.

 

What if the beloved NY Giants got renamed New York Pepsi? Do you think fans would ask for a return to the days when their team wasn't a billboard? You could even still call them big blue! :P




#1356269 What would it take for Red Bull to sell?

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 28 October 2019 - 02:06 PM

So would Dieters severed head shoved up his ass.

 

People have been getting soft on here. Thanks Fina




#1351714 No local outreach by the club

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 14 August 2019 - 11:02 PM

Metromaniac01 you do make a lot of good points but in reference to nycfc and how they treat their fans they are clearly not doing something right either, whether it's the stadium, the play of MLS or whatever the fact remains that their attendance has dropped off a ton since they first started and it drops every single year. They started off with 20k season ticket holders and are now below 13k season tickets and overall attendance drops every year too.

 

 

Pretty much what I was coming to say. I agree with the overall sentiment, but NYCFC should not be the bar. They are by no means the gold standard in MLS. They have plenty of attendance woes.

 

 

Just to play devil's advocate in regards to the story of your friend in Yonkers. I've lived in Yonkers for the past year, 20 minutes to Yankee Stadium door to door, and would have no idea NYCFC even existed, if I wasn't already a RBNY/MLS long time die hard. I've seen as much RBNY gear as NYCFC gear (which is very, very little in both cases). I'm not sure I've ever seen NYCFC signage on the Metro North trains. Your friend is not wrong, obviously. Just giving a different viewpoint to illustrate that they may not be hitting a home run (pun intended) in Yonkers. 

 

As I said in my previous post, I do agree with your overall sentiment. I am not sure why the club doesn't have more of an effort made in Newark/Harrison. They seem to have a reasonable presence in Hoboken/Jersey City, which is great. But, they seem to have bypassed Newark/Harrison to make that their priority. 

 

I agree with all of that. I hung around with my buddy in Yonkers and I don't recall seeing any NYCFC signage or gear. We went to some hipster brewery, that would be the type of place for NYCFC to have watch parties and be involved. The idea behind my buddy is that because he is so close, once he checked out a game and was treated right, he went again and so on. To be fair it probably was lucky for NYCFC that he showed up in the first place. I think NYCFC should be working Metro North just like I think RBNY should be working the PATH and their local neighborhoods.

 

I don't want to say NYCFC are getting it right. My friend told me he had "good, very close" (probably corner or endline) seats for $350 and if he missed a game he was invited into the club level with all kinds of free food and booshie shit that his girl really liked for the next game. No limit on that. The staff was super respectful about checking in on him if he missed a game, and wanted to make sure he felt appreciated. Is this life changing? No. But for a casual who is looking for something to do with the girl. It sounded like a cheap, convenient, relatively nice day out.

 

The idea is that it's so much easier for local fans to come and go to games. The time and cost associated is much lower. If RBNY were going to do any marketing I would focus it in the local neighborhoods. I really believe in this, so when I hear about these wasted opportunities like Regulator described, I get frustrated. 




#1351497 No local outreach by the club

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 12 August 2019 - 01:52 PM

I 100% agree with Regulator and am surprised by the two bitter responses. Satan. How do we know locals wouldn't come to games anyway? The team has never made any effort to court them. Jake do you really think marketing to fans for the 2 hours they are in RBA, while watching a game, will have any impact? Sorry but both those comments are from the stone ages of marketing.

 

I live out of state now, but just came back to the area and stayed with an old friend. He lives in Yonkers and is a life long sports fan, NOT a soccer fan. From the minute he locks his apartment door he can be at Yankee Stadium in 15 minutes and sometimes less. NYCFC has realized young people that are SUPER close to the stadium are the ideal demographic. NYCFC has had people in his neighborhood bar watching games and talking about the game and the team. He went to a couple games and was treated like royalty by NYCFC. Guess what? Now he is a season ticket holder and becoming more and more of a fan each day. When he described his experience with NYCFC it made me want to cry. How can RBNY be so pathetic and make such little (zero?) effort to take care of their fans and bring in new ones.

 

This street festival Regulator is talking about is exactly the thing RBNY needs to be at. We always talk about RBNY competing against something like 12 NYC professional sports teams, right? Well thats the dumbest idea ever. There are more than enough soccer fans in RBNY's neighborhood to fill RBA every game of the season. Why are people in the Bronx Yankees fans and those in Queens Mets fans? Get the idea?

 

Marketing these days isn't about showing off your product and convincing/tricking people to give you money. It's about building community and creating positive associations with your brand. Think of it like a relationship. If you meet some girl and ask for her to go on a date 90 seconds later (or 30 sec in a TV ad) she is going to laugh and say no. If you run into a girl daily, and treat her with kindness and respect (aka building trust and affinity) she is much more likely to say yes to a date. Before love, affection, or spending money, one must build trust. Once you trust someone, something or have a positive association with that entity, you are much more likely to agree to their suggestions or fork over your money.

 

People in Newark and Harrison must have no idea how to feel about RBNY other than it clogs up their streets about 20 days a year. RBNY could do 10000x more than they are to get involved in their community and win over the low-hanging fruit. Seriously the locals are the EASY fans to get. Convincing someone from NYC to take the train all the way out to RBNY or some Jersey family from 1.5 hours away, is stupid and inefficient. There are a ton of empty seats to sell each and every game. The easiest and most cost effective way to sell those seats (by a country mile) is to win over some fans in the neighborhood. It too simple, too obvious, and absolutely soul crushing that RBNY has made no attempt to do so.




#1346777 Song Idea

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 28 May 2019 - 03:33 PM

Glad to see someone trying. Used to see more of this.




#1338658 Attendance again

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 02 January 2019 - 05:52 PM

 

I do know one thing about NY fans though, you have to win the Cup at least once and you need a personality to go with it. 

If we won MLS Cup it would not have any impact on attendance the next season.




#1331806 David Beckham used to play soccer

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 17 August 2018 - 02:44 AM

Worst MLS team names:

 

1. Real Salt Lake (worst abomination of a name in any sport)

2. Sporting Kansas City / Inter Miami (sporting?? inter??)

3. NYCFC / LAFC / FC Dallas (these all should have been "SC" since we call it soccer in the US)

4. Atlanta United / Minnesota United

 

Red Bull New York?  :ph34r:

 

Love the team, but if I could change one thing...




#1331748 You knew him as Glenn "Calcio"

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 15 August 2018 - 01:36 AM

Can't believe it's been a year already. He really was the ambassador of the ESC and like many of you he was one of the first people I met in Lot 16A.

 

Calcio was welcoming to us crew of newbie kids back in 16A. To be honest we were all a bit nervous until he gave us big bear hugs after a goal. He was an incredibly kind soul, and the very first person to make me feel like a member of ESC. Calcio was a legend within ESC. 




#1330332 Favorite Kit Combo

Posted by Metromaniac01 on 25 July 2018 - 04:03 PM

Red and Black stripes of course

Came here to say this.