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Hockey gets $300 million arena's already.....so lets divide the 90 million between the Dynamo. WNBA, badmitton, luge and a professional dart throwing arena. That would give each of these huge sports $18 million of capital. I almost want to see this arena happen for laughs. Once the ticket prices exceed $20 the attendance will be promptly cut in half. That would be the funny thing about this. I have been to a Dynamo game before.....and it was...well...interesting.

I applaud Mayor White for not caving in. In the US football, basketball and baseball are the sports that 90% of the population cares about. The other 10% fights it out between hockey, luge, ping pong, badmitton and soccer.

agreed...I just think when you say the term Major League, it should be a real term and not something that is actually not true. All of the Major sports in the US are actually the best in their profession. The MLS is not even in the top 5 soccer leagues in the world so calling themselves Major is a farce.

Lets take away the money argument. Just to drive my point home lets discuss why good players leave to play overseas and the overseas clubs send us the older washed up players. I have actually watched enough soccer to know what would be major and what would be minor. I did live in Europe for a time and let me tell you the top team in MLS could not sniff the jock of a decent European club. That is a fact. It would be the same as the real NFL playing NFL Europe....just no comparison.

easy...baseball and hockey.

Sure...I will bring it up next time I have one of the Dynamo reserves bring my car up from valet. Yes you are a Major League Player. Here is your tip. lol

Take a look at minor league hockey and baseball and you will see salaries that exceed those of the MLS. WNBA, arena football and a few other minor leagues are in the salary vicinity of a lot of MLS. It is pretty factual. I think the three big sports have player's salaries that exceed an entire team in the MLS's salary cap of 2.4 million. So yes....minor league soccer

Oh no...a minor league soccer team is threatening the city. Please come back and talk when your minimum player salary is over 12k. What a joke. See ya!

I am glad to hear this is happening. Did they say the area and timetable they are looking at to build the HS?

Now that the Bond has passed I wanted ask if the new HS is being built in Sienna? I keep hearing that it is.

lol....the last team that was to be sold out of the NHL (Nashville Predators) was going close to $300,000,000 more than three times the value of the LA Galaxy...NHL is debating adding two franchises (one in Vegas) with close to $300,000,000 in fees. It is going to be a while before MLS approaches this. Besides I don't think the two sports are in competition. I have been to numerous hockey games and soccer games and the fans are not the same at all. They don't compete for the same customer. Like Red said...it is about small, steady gains at this point.

This is too easy...lol

Here is my point...in this country fans take to sports that have the "Michael Jordan" factor....I know all of you guys are going to bring up Beckham at this point but he is 32 with maybe two good years left...soccer is not an old man's game....let MLS get a prime player in his 20s and then we will talk. Many people forget the NASL got Pele, one of the greatest players in the world (better than Beckham) but the league folded a few years later. I know good players play soccer in the states I am just saying that in the US we are spoiled we like to see the best athletes in our professional sports. Maybe if I had not watched soccer teams in Europe and Brazil play I would think MLS is fine....but is not even in the same stratosphere. It is the same arguement as saying I love NFL Europe because I live in Germany...fine I respect that but realize the players you watch in NFL Europe could not sniff the jock of a majority of players in the NFL.

Here is another problem with soccer in the US. When I was a kid my primary sport was soccer with my dad as the coach. But as I grew up I ended up playing baseball, basketball and football finally settling on football in high school. I think many kids in the US go this path. Most parents including myself will put their kids in non harmful sports such as soccer when they are kids....but when they grow older most kids will play football, basketball and baseball. You throw in hockey up north. Let me cut to the point. So down in the south soccer is at best a #4 sport...baseball, football and basketball are not going anywhere. Up north soccer is a #5 sport with hockey being added in. The rest of the world soccer is #1. What this means simply is that our best athletes do not play soccer. If they did we probably would have one of the better leaguse in the world, but that is not happening in my lifetime. Go look at any HS and I guarantee you the best athletes are not on a soccer field. There is the problem for long term success....end of story.

I think soccer will only succeed here long term if the best come to play here....and as someone who follows all sports including soccer I think we are a long way off from that happening. They have players in Europe worth more than an MLS team by themselves. MLS is minor leage at the moment and Americans including myself are used to watching the best athletes in every sport. When my dad and I watch soccer overseas and then MLS it is like a joke. The first thing I noticed when watching MLS is the players are half as accurate and half as fast. Here is the true problem for MLS down the road which no one mentions. With Beckham, etc coming in at big contracts this could create serious problems down the road. Most MLS players make less than the league minimums in MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL. LEAGUE MINIMUMS....there are guys in the MLS that make $12,000. If the MLS hopes to get the talent to make them competitive on a world stage (again this is what it would take for America to take to it) ticket prices, sponsorships and money invested would have to increase.....and if you have been to MLS game....I have been to a couple, the crowd leans to the poor side. Increase ticket prices to $100 for example to have these players and I would say that the crowds would be cut in half killing the sport. The MLS is going to have to add very slowly for the next 10 years because if it gets too far ahead of itself the league will colapse. The ESPN deal that gets publicized is one of the lowest paid sports deals around...they make very little from it. The money in this city for example does not support soccer....the money supports the big sports.