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Real Salt Lake: Attendance historically low for MLS playoffs
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RSL played 90 minutes of great attacking soccer against a team hoping to go home tied, thanks to Yura (again) we are going to L.A. up a goal and with some real confidence.
Soccer haters in Utah will always be with us! but the best part of that is that Soccer will always be here in Utah with them!
Thank you for a great game RSL.
* People who don't need the weather to be great.
* People who will pay a little more for a big game, not needing the discounts given for regular season games.
Basically, that means the really committed fans. And if, after three years of misery and facing mostly a tower of cynicism from the rest of the community, RSL still has a core of 14.7k committed fans, they're doing pretty good.
1)the lead-in times are too short to activate the demand efficiently.
2)the emphasis on so few play-offs matches also detracts from the regular season.
3)there are mutliple competitions in soccer and knockout play exists already in the US Open Cup.
4)a second season reduces the length of the season.
5)the second season in soccer is next season and exists already in the form of regional Concacaf CL play (soccer also has a third season in the Fifa CWC - a true world series).
6)playoffs prevent US soccer from integrating into the global calendar and are detrimental to the professionalisation of the sport over the longer term.
7)pandering to the prejudices of US sports fans is harmful the development of their knowledge about the game.
8)playoffs are uneconomic - you lose more than you gain.
The playoff are here to stay. Mexican football uses it. The UEFA Champions League is basicaly a playoff.
That's probably true. Look at Dallas. One of the worst attendance records in the league, but one of 3 or 4 profitable teams, because they're in their own stadium.
Also, @Cowboy and Cohen, you go ahead and dream on. The rest of us are going to enjoy the league as it is. And since it's always going to be "Americanized" to a certain extent, you're always going to have something to whine about. Everyone wins!