“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
According to my weather app there should be no snow in Commerce City, Colorado today so no reason not to have a green field tonight. Temps at game time are est at -10. No need for the orange ball. (I was kind of looking forward to that.)
Was it around -8 at the MLS cup last year?
The playing conditions really make u think if it’s worth throwing out players like seba and jozy for the full 90
Also can’t they make an exception so these guys can wear toques on the pitch the frostbite is going to be unreal
Beckham, many others have worn hair bands. Not too complicated to address, but then again, this is CONCACAF. Games never should have been at night in the first place in February in these locations. If there was any history of corruption in that organization you’d think it was done on purpose to maximize the chance of injury for key players.
CCL knockout rounds always started late Feb IIRC. Most teams don't play in freezing weather cities. And was not an issue for some teams that can find indoor alternate stadiums (IE CCL game vs LA at Skydome 5 yrs ago)
As much as we love to bitch about CONCACAF, I don't think they have much of a choice in this matter, if you take into consideration domestic league and cup scheduling, summer int tourneys, etc. Calendar is already full as it is.
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
2016 surely must have been colder than -4 before windchill. I remember my hands being frozen through two pairs of gloves and shaking in my boots for hours (granted, anxiety might have played a role in that). Regardless, safety measures have to be implemented for the players in temperatures anywhere close to that. It almost takes away from the thrill of a new season ... almost.
This from the Wiki entry for the 2016 MLS Cup Final.
"The match kicked off at 8:16 p.m. Eastern Time at BMO Field in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where the ground temperature was reported as −5 °C (23 °F) and estimated at −12 °C (10 °F) with wind chill"
It only got colder as the evening went on if I remember.
If we don't get the result we want tonight, everyone needs to chill (no pun intended)
These conditions are a massive neutralizer of talent, and increase the role of luck/chance.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Apparently it does though ... https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/featu...ground-heating
No - much warmer. Looking at nearby weather stations. At 4 pm (kickoff) December 9, it was 0.6 degrees both downtown Toronto and at the island airport increasing to 0.7 or 0.8 depending which station. Very little wind.
Yeah, about -4°C overall for 2016 MLS Cup - and a bit of a breeze.
Offhand, I can't think of anything at BMO close to what is forecast in Denver tonight - which is currently -11°C with a windchill of -15°C (which means not very windy!)
Ah, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. They source that to a European newspaper ...
The downtown Toronto and Toronto Island stations put it closer to -4°C than -5°C. But the windchill on the island was -11°C. It certainly FELT like it was getting colder - and I was very cold. But the data doesn't show it getting colder. Still, tonight looks colder than 2016 MLS Cup.
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An away goal would be nice though.
Realistically, the snow evens out some things.
But the experience our team has playing together can't be discounted either. Guys know where players are likely to go - even if they don't get there, that positional awareness is gold in these sort of games.
And, to be honest, we are the better team at locking things down.
since 1000 tickets were purchased, wouldnt it have made sense for the rapids to just pay those tickets back, rent out an indoor field , prop up some cameras and minimize the losses?
wont even be worth their time to open up concessions and bathrooms
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