El Stadium Watch Thread
#391
Posted 12 May 2012 - 09:03 PM
Nice opening for Houston's new stadium. They beat DC 1-0 on a Brad Davis screamer from outside the box. Looked like half the crowd ran for shade in the second half, though.
Yes, all that orange is good for Houston. Maybe the G's could paint the seats that Chivas covers up for their "home" games?
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#392
Posted 13 May 2012 - 12:46 PM
Problem is dark blue works for both teams. If the G's were still green and gold, it would be an excellent idea.
Nice opening for Houston's new stadium. They beat DC 1-0 on a Brad Davis screamer from outside the box. Looked like half the crowd ran for shade in the second half, though.
Yes, all that orange is good for Houston. Maybe the G's could paint the seats that Chivas covers up for their "home" games?
#393
Posted 13 May 2012 - 02:57 PM
He had been going to Robertson on and off for games and took in this first match at BBVA or whatever it's called.
He said going to Robertson seemed like a special event, or put another way, not a natural fit between the event and the venue. Going to the new park felt to him like 'going to football', a much more normal and natural thing, and more satisfying in every way.
The atmosphere was described as great, and everyone found it fitting playing DC with two longtime Dynamo players on the opposition in DeRo and Onstad.
The gameplay was also satisfying with Davis scoring the game winner on a stereotypical long ball.
The heat was intense with lots of people taking shelter in the shaded concourse. The stadium has much more shade than Robertson though. I can see this being a problem ongoing... The muggy heat is bad enough but the direct sun is just inhumane.
Anyway, the kid left feeling excited about the future of the Dynamo and with what's happening with American soccer.
(He is a Watford born kid and after he finished school married a hot Houstonian eager for a handsome kid with a British accent. After moving to Houston, he has ended up going to school there for an advanced degree and is coaching soccer on the side, so he has bought into the efforts all of us are making to see the sport grow here.)
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#394
Posted 13 May 2012 - 03:01 PM
#395
Posted 13 May 2012 - 03:23 PM
I got a first hand report from an English kid I know who lives in Houston.
He had been going to Robertson on and off for games and took in this first match at BBVA or whatever it's called.
He said going to Robertson seemed like a special event, or put another way, not a natural fit between the event and the venue. Going to the new park felt to him like 'going to football', a much more normal and natural thing, and more satisfying in every way.
The atmosphere was described as great, and everyone found it fitting playing DC with two longtime Dynamo players on the opposition in DeRo and Onstad.
The gameplay was also satisfying with Davis scoring the game winner on a stereotypical long ball.
The heat was intense with lots of people taking shelter in the shaded concourse. The stadium has much more shade than Robertson though. I can see this being a problem ongoing... The muggy heat is bad enough but the direct sun is just inhumane.
Anyway, the kid left feeling excited about the future of the Dynamo and with what's happening with American soccer.
(He is a Watford born kid and after he finished school married a hot Houstonian eager for a handsome kid with a British accent. After moving to Houston, he has ended up going to school there for an advanced degree and is coaching soccer on the side, so he has bought into the efforts all of us are making to see the sport grow here.)
In a hell pit like Houston, it seems like kind of a dumb move not to have the entire crowd seated underneath a roof. (Like Red Bull Arena)
#396
Posted 13 May 2012 - 04:55 PM
That's been an issue at the HDC too, more for the USWNT and the late, lamented Sol: There'd be 6,000 people in attendance, and the stadium personnel would make them all sit in the sun, because that was where they'd show up on the cameras.In a hell pit like Houston, it seems like kind of a dumb move not to have the entire crowd seated underneath a roof. (Like Red Bull Arena)
As for Houston, maybe they were just thinking of evening games? I agree that it's short-sighted, in any case.
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#397
Posted 16 May 2012 - 04:15 PM
#398
Posted 26 May 2012 - 01:54 AM
Agreed. A full roof with a healthy overhang would make way more sense. That said, if you look at their schedule, after the first few games at the new digs, all the rest save for one are all night games. That makes more sense.In a hell pit like Houston, it seems like kind of a dumb move not to have the entire crowd seated underneath a roof. (Like Red Bull Arena)
What I'm curious to see is what the pointy football team does to that joint come September.
#399
Posted 26 May 2012 - 02:07 AM
-H. L. Mencken
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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "unskilled people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it." The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average.
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#400
Posted 20 July 2012 - 12:27 PM
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#401
Posted 20 July 2012 - 12:57 PM
Let's Eat!
#402
Posted 03 October 2012 - 04:31 PM
Let's Eat!
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