Monday, June 28, 2004
Don't you know a soccer town when you see it?
Report from a Rochester NY sports columnist:
"The 14,426 fans who saw Freddy Adu and the rest of the D.C. United play the Rochester Rhinos Wednesday night at Frontier Field was a bigger crowd than attended any of Saturday’s four Major League Soccer games: 9,891 in Boston; 10,188 in San Jose; 13,407 in Columbus; and 13,833 in Dallas (for Adu and the United; the Burn averaged 7,965 in its first five home games this season)."
O yeah. If only they could get that soccer stadium finished and nail down a team in MLS. (I'd get to see them play twice a year at Arrowhead versus the Wizards.) If they can draw 14K for an exhibition game (outdrawing a weekend gate in Dallas), I bet they could top off at 25 to 30 thousand for a game that really meant something. Given these numbers, Rochester deserves an MLS team over the Burn, and certainly over any of the other possible candidates that are being touted for a new team in 2005.
