MLS in winter? Yep ... that'll work
by Steve Davis on Feb 5, 2011 11:29 AM EST
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I’ll be brief about this, because Lordy, Lordy have I beat the beans out of this one:
Major League Soccer playing through the winter is a terrible idea. It is powerfully terrible. The worst idea, perhaps, since the Charlie Sheen Center for Peaceful and Sober Reflection.
I won’t even go into all the reasons why. I’ll just say that I’m thinking about it today as a Winter-Snowy-Armageddon has most of the country in a death vice, and as I contemplate a Saturday in which I’ll be lucky to get out of my damn driveway. (That Angelic looking fluffy stuff on the ground where I live is obscuring a Satanic and stealthy layer of pure ice from earlier in the week. It’s truly nasty stuff to drive on when a couple of hills are involved – even for someone like me, someone who does enjoy a good challenge.)
Don Garber should mention at his next press conference, sort of matter-of-factly, that this idea of studying a Fall-Winter-Spring progression of the league calendar has been scrapped. Just mention it almost in passing and keep going, as if the hair-brained, half-baked scheme never happened. (Besides, as I’ve said before, I believe it was always a false trail to appease FIFA in the run-up to World Cup selection. And we all know how that worked out for MLS and for the United States.)
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I whole-heartedly agree this weather is pretty bad.
I don’t see how this would sell more tickets as people are already wary of going out in the first place. I don’t think it’s in the best interest of the League especially when you consider the northern states and hell even the southern states now (see: Day-After-Tomorrow-esque Storm).
Dear Passionate fan, I know you are passionate, but please reply with a logical answer or I will ignore you.
Why doesn't Europe switch to a summer schedule instead?
That would actually be a logical move, except for maybe Spain and Italy. But in any country north of there, summer is actually more logical. It doesn’t even get all that hot for long periods (usually) in Germany and England, for example. And huge swaths of the world are on totally different calnders anyway – like Central and S America. I’ve never understood the desire to put any country N of the Caribbean on a winter schedule for an outdoor sport.
I don't know what you're talking about man!
, and as I contemplate a Saturday in which I’ll be lucky to get out of my damn driveway.
It’s a balmy 70 degrees and sunny here in San Jose this weekend… I got sunburned at my beer-league soccer game today!
Win or lose, we will always be here for you.
