Yep, which is why I said it's years and years off of ever becoming a reality.
MLB would be the obvious pick to me - long term, baseball is king in Boston. Talk to anyone over 50 - those who have disposable income and a memory - and they'll tell you that even in the 86 year lull the Red Sox had, they were still pulling in a decent fan base most of the time. Yes, we've all been entranced with the Shiny New Thing down in Foxboro for the last 15 years, but as soon as Brady and Edelman are gone and the Patriots start stinking, I think a lot of Patriots viewership is going to be schadenfreude from other teams.
We're a baseball city. That said, the question is - is it baseball, or is it the Red Sox? I can see it being a hard sell to fans. If Werner had some big Jacobian slip-up around the time the second Boston team were introduced...maybe. Definitely enough fans to spread between the two teams, and it'd be nice to have a professional franchise where you don't have to donate plasma to take the family out for a Saturday game.
The question is will fans try the new team? The NL/AL split and relative schedule sequestration makes split loyalty easier in baseball than any other league besides football.
I think back to pre-Brady (or pre-Kraft really) and I wonder if this area will care as much about football when the team is 7-9 with a mediocre starting QB.
I don’t think the Patriots will ever go back to the pre-Kraft lack of success. They may cough up a 6-10 or 7-9 once in a very blue moon, but I think they will be competitive year in and year out for decades to come.
I don’t think the Patriots will ever go back to the pre-Kraft lack of success. They may cough up a 6-10 or 7-9 once in a very blue moon, but I think they will be competitive year in and year out for decades to come.
Yikes.
Hopefully kraft won’t become like AL Davis in the 2000s who set the raiders back decades with poor decisions when he started to get older.I don’t think the Patriots will ever go back to the pre-Kraft lack of success. They may cough up a 6-10 or 7-9 once in a very blue moon, but I think they will be competitive year in and year out for decades to come.
As hands-on as Bob Kraft is, I don’t think he’s even close to being as bad as Al Davis. Kraft was never a coach like Davis was, and I’d like to think that he knows the limits of his abilities.Hopefully kraft won’t become like AL Davis in the 2000s who set the raiders back decades with poor decisions when he started to get older.
I've never thought of the MLS as a minor league, but I guess that perspective makes a lot of sense.New England has several minor league teams in other sports, so not sure why the Revolution would stand out.
They go on a little run this year and boom they pulled in 25k fans last night an hour away from the city. The only thing holding them back is the Krafts and Foxborough.Maybe, but I think a lot of fans may hold it against the Krafts for how badly they gutted that team over the years. It's been a joke how they've run it in after a decent run earlier. Since 2010, 6th, 9th, 9th, 3rd, 2nd, 5th. 7th, 7th, 8th, with this year tbd. And it's not even the finishing record, but the way they traded star players for lesser talents. There's a reason they were considered the worst owners in all of the MLS for a while.
And as this is about what team could become the 5th big franchise, I simply don't see it being the Revs.
they should consider putting an MLS team in the city as I think it could do very well being accessible by those that live in the City. Also that sport is growing and since parents will no longer allow their children to play football because of CTE it will only grow more.
Yeah, and last year they averaged 18k. 21st in MLS. So sure a one off game with 25K is good, but they don't do that regularly.
I think an NL baseball team could work if they had a new stadium and competitive pricing. Everything else wouldn't though.
Like if the Tampa Bay Rays got moved to Boston, played in a waterfront stadium like McCourt wanted to build when he was bidding on the Sox, then they got transferred to the NL East and Miami or Washington went to the AL, I think it could work. If they were in the same division or had direct competition with each other, the Sox would run them out of business.
The Revs used to be near the top of the league in attendance, but at the time, the product was so bad that they drove a number of those fans away.How much of that is even fully paid. Revs have been near or at the bottom in attendance historically, and that is with huge numbers of giveaway and deeply discounted tickets included.