Jersey Is Plastic

[CP_Scouse]

I work in the financial district, no one cares about the red bulls. The VP and above guys here who are soccer fans (not too many unfortunately) follow EPL teams.

well yea, red bulls did a bad job advertising to that demo

 

[franchise646]

https://twitter.com/x/status/637031313325883392

 

[LionNYC]

Watching the Red Bull town hall (opposition research). Their front office president guy or whatever Austrian word they use said that they will not increase the allocation for NYCFC fans for derby games in New Jersey.

 

[BxLio91]

We just gotta give them the same number of tickets when they come to YS. Ideally I'd love to see how they'd get their only sell outs of the season if our fans decided to boycott RBA games.

 

[Everton]

We just gotta give them the same number of tickets when they come to YS. Ideally I'd love to see how they'd get their only sell outs of the season if our fans decided to boycott RBA games.

I think most Red Bull fans care more about the race for the supporters shield and the chances of a deep playoff run than the amount of fans that show up to the games.

I said it on here before months ago -- NYCFC fans are fixated on attendance and its not doing them any good. Look at Seattle -- their fans get routinely mocked for thumping their chests about attendance when they have never won anything in MLS. Nobody cares. Results matter more.

You have to look at it from the perspective of non-NYCFC fans. The team is competing for dead last in the conference, the players and coach are a bunch of divas, the supporters section and fan base are a circus (people getting tossed from games, public letters pleading for better treatment, incidents at nearly every game), and management that has screwed fans with the Lampard situation and the jersey design.

And despite all this, you STILL have NYCFC fans on Twitter with their holier-than-thou attitude claiming that they are more prestigious and better than other teams in the league because of their attendance. I mean really? No one buys into it for a second.

Even if no NYCFC fans showed up for their games at Red Bull Arena, I bet the place would still sell out anyway. The games have become the hot ticket for both teams and the casual Red Bull fans. I've been to games at RBA this season against the Red Bulls other main rivals -- Philly and DC, and neither of those games were as well attended as the NYCFC one I went to on Mother's Day. But during that game, outside of the road supporters section (Third Rail and others had an impressive turnout), there was only a smattering of NYCFC fans throughout the stadium. I thought they would have traveled better for the first outing.

Regardless, I think we can both agree that the rivalry is good for the area and its a fun one too. The two teams might even meet again in the playoffs too (if Red Bull finish first and NYCFC win the play-in game as a 6 seed on the road).

 

[Everton]

Watching the Red Bull town hall (opposition research). Their front office president guy or whatever Austrian word they use said that they will not increase the allocation for NYCFC fans for derby games in New Jersey.

I think this is the wrong move by the Red Bulls. The supporter section allocation should be equal for both teams' fans, not less for one team at a certain stadium and more at the other.

The only thing this decision does is leave the door open for CFG to cut back on the tickets given to Red Bull fans at the Yankee Stadium games next season.

Either way the fans lose out. The best atmospheres at gamrs are when you have two big supporters sections going back and forth.

 

[mgarbowski]

I think most Red Bull fans care more about the race for the supporters shield and the chances of a deep playoff run than the amount of fans that show up to the games.

I said it on here before months ago -- NYCFC fans are fixated on attendance and its not doing them any good. Look at Seattle -- their fans get routinely mocked for thumping their chests about attendance when they have never won anything in MLS. Nobody cares. Results matter more.

You have to look at it from the perspective of non-NYCFC fans. The team is competing for dead last in the conference, the players and coach are a bunch of divas, the supporters section and fan base are a circus (people getting tossed from games, public letters pleading for better treatment, incidents at nearly every game), and management that has screwed fans with the Lampard situation and the jersey design.

And despite all this, you STILL have NYCFC fans on Twitter with their holier-than-thou attitude claiming that they are more prestigious and better than other teams in the league because of their attendance. I mean really? No one buys into it for a second.

Even if no NYCFC fans showed up for their games at Red Bull Arena, I bet the place would still sell out anyway. The games have become the hot ticket for both teams and the casual Red Bull fans. I've been to games at RBA this season against the Red Bulls other main rivals -- Philly and DC, and neither of those games were as well attended as the NYCFC one I went to on Mother's Day. But during that game, outside of the road supporters section (Third Rail and others had an impressive turnout), there was only a smattering of NYCFC fans throughout the stadium. I thought they would have traveled better for the first outing.

Regardless, I think we can both agree that the rivalry is good for the area and its a fun one too. The two teams might even meet again in the playoffs too (if Red Bull finish first and NYCFC win the play-in game as a 6 seed on the road).

On top of this, at least Seattle fans can boast of massive attendance while having the 13th largest metro area in the US. We have the largest population, and not incrementally. We are more than 2.3 times larger than the third place city (Chicago). Only LA is less than half our size. Seattle is less than 1/5 our size in population and makes our attendance boasts a relative embarrassment.
On the other hand, NYCFC shares its population with a second team, which only LA also (sort of does - they have in the past and will again soon). But as I noted, we are more than twice the population size of everyone else anyway. Which leaves the RB situation. They share the exact same target population as us and draw fewer fans than we do. But as Everton noted, the fans who do show don't care about that as much as the fact that they are on track to finish first in the East, and are sitting 14 points ahead of us in the standings.

 

[Gotham Gator]

I don't have any problem with us being excited and proud of our fan support. It's the one things we fans can control, after all.

I also think that what Seattle is doing with its fan culture is terrific and should be the goal of every team in the league.

 

[BxLio91]

I think most Red Bull fans care more about the race for the supporters shield and the chances of a deep playoff run than the amount of fans that show up to the games.

I said it on here before months ago -- NYCFC fans are fixated on attendance and its not doing them any good. Look at Seattle -- their fans get routinely mocked for thumping their chests about attendance when they have never won anything in MLS. Nobody cares. Results matter more.

You have to look at it from the perspective of non-NYCFC fans. The team is competing for dead last in the conference, the players and coach are a bunch of divas, the supporters section and fan base are a circus (people getting tossed from games, public letters pleading for better treatment, incidents at nearly every game), and management that has screwed fans with the Lampard situation and the jersey design.

And despite all this, you STILL have NYCFC fans on Twitter with their holier-than-thou attitude claiming that they are more prestigious and better than other teams in the league because of their attendance. I mean really? No one buys into it for a second.

Even if no NYCFC fans showed up for their games at Red Bull Arena, I bet the place would still sell out anyway. The games have become the hot ticket for both teams and the casual Red Bull fans. I've been to games at RBA this season against the Red Bulls other main rivals -- Philly and DC, and neither of those games were as well attended as the NYCFC one I went to on Mother's Day. But during that game, outside of the road supporters section (Third Rail and others had an impressive turnout), there was only a smattering of NYCFC fans throughout the stadium. I thought they would have traveled better for the first outing.

Regardless, I think we can both agree that the rivalry is good for the area and its a fun one too. The two teams might even meet again in the playoffs too (if Red Bull finish first and NYCFC win the play-in game as a 6 seed on the road).

Isn't not caring about the team unless it's a big game or the playoffs part of being plastic/fairweather?

 

[Tom in Fairfield CT]

I think most Red Bull fans care more about the race for the supporters shield and the chances of a deep playoff run than the amount of fans that show up to the games.

I said it on here before months ago -- NYCFC fans are fixated on attendance and its not doing them any good. Look at Seattle -- their fans get routinely mocked for thumping their chests about attendance when they have never won anything in MLS. Nobody cares. Results matter more.

You have to look at it from the perspective of non-NYCFC fans. The team is competing for dead last in the conference, the players and coach are a bunch of divas, the supporters section and fan base are a circus (people getting tossed from games, public letters pleading for better treatment, incidents at nearly every game), and management that has screwed fans with the Lampard situation and the jersey design.

And despite all this, you STILL have NYCFC fans on Twitter with their holier-than-thou attitude claiming that they are more prestigious and better than other teams in the league because of their attendance. I mean really? No one buys into it for a second.

Even if no NYCFC fans showed up for their games at Red Bull Arena, I bet the place would still sell out anyway. The games have become the hot ticket for both teams and the casual Red Bull fans. I've been to games at RBA this season against the Red Bulls other main rivals -- Philly and DC, and neither of those games were as well attended as the NYCFC one I went to on Mother's Day. But during that game, outside of the road supporters section (Third Rail and others had an impressive turnout), there was only a smattering of NYCFC fans throughout the stadium. I thought they would have traveled better for the first outing.

Regardless, I think we can both agree that the rivalry is good for the area and its a fun one too. The two teams might even meet again in the playoffs too (if Red Bull finish first and NYCFC win the play-in game as a 6 seed on the road).

You've been at it twenty years and your fan base threw the most embarrassing tantrum I've ever seen in sports, with the crybaby act over petke. Still want petke back?

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[Paul]

I think most Red Bull fans care more about the race for the supporters shield and the chances of a deep playoff run than the amount of fans that show up to the games.

I said it on here before months ago -- NYCFC fans are fixated on attendance and its not doing them any good. Look at Seattle -- their fans get routinely mocked for thumping their chests about attendance when they have never won anything in MLS. Nobody cares. Results matter more.

Hasn't Seattle won exactly the same number of trophies in MLS (in many fewer years) than the Red Bulls? 1 Shield each, right?