Comments on: Serious Case of Red Stars Envy

By: Cheap Laptops

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By: fcgpgm

fcgpgm — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:01:19 +0000

David,
Few points of interest. I totally agree with your points on Wilt – he’s awesome, but don’t smack our ownership. The luckwarm attendance has nothing to do with ownership – as I go out to our youth soccer community I would make more money if I had a nickle for every soccer parent telling me that FCGP games is the last thing they have time for after schleping their daughters to soccerfields all weekend.
RE: TV. Toyota park has existing cameras on site- meaning it is not a $10K minimum investment per game – which is a lot of $12 tickets. My priority is keeping this as a viable business so we can be around more than 3 years (ala WUSA). Let’s get people off their couch and into the stadium! Lastly, please, soccer as a webcast – really is that satisfying? ilisa, FCGP GM

By: BP

BP — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:01:38 +0000

David, my family lives in San Jose and follows both the Pride and the Red Stars, due to their Santa Clara Bronco connection. I too am appreciative of the local ownership but wish that as an organization, the Pride were as fan welcoming as the Red Stars. When the two played this past week, my daughters were wearing Red Star gear and holding Red Star posters. We’ll be back at Buck Shaw on July 5th to root for the Pride in their next home game and I hope that by then the Pride ownership has taken some cues from Peter Wilt.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:56:45 +0000

I’ve been on that bus from The Globe to Toyota Park and it’s pretty much the shiznit.

By: Espihir

Espihir — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:32:37 +0000

I, as a SBFC fan, also have CRS envy.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:21:22 +0000

To tell you the truth, it was a bit of mixed feelings about getting the link to this article. As a Red Stars supporter, it’s cool to see us get recognized, but at the same time – it’s depressing not to see the same love for the team shared by others.

One of the things that helps us out is that most of our fans are Chicago Fire fans, so we have an existing support infrastructure to build off of. We’re really lucky to have a great front office that we can easily get a hold of. But it can be done but it’ll take time. Setting up things like watch parties, tailgating and other activities require the help of the FO.

Come out to Chicago for the game, and we’ll buy you a drink or three. Supporters of the sport need to stick together!

By: alexis

alexis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:56:30 +0000

Good luck, David! I hope every WPS team can have crazy fans and the support like Chicago someday.

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:58:13 +0000

Thanks to you all for the traffic from Twitter about my post ….

In addition to being despondent over the lack of fan support in the Bay Area, I am the official volunteer fan behind the FC Gold Pride’s twitter feed (@fcGoldPride)

… and now I am further envious that my thoughts are going viral with Chicago fans … but not apparently with FCGP fans.

*SIGH*

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:13:57 +0000

Well written, David. We are very fortunate for all those things you mentioned, in particular for Peter Wilt. He’s one of the few executive-level soccer people in the U.S. that understands the game and it’s fans. Go CRS!