Spring Break
Out of the Pouch
Dan Stroud
Issue date: 4/14/08 Section: Sports
Originally built as the home of the Kansas City T-Bones, an independent minor league baseball team, Community America has experience so much of a transformation that it seems hard to picture just where the baseball diamond was originally positioned.
The closer proximity of the game to its fans has the appeal of a much more intense brand of soccer than this writer last experienced. Even with the threat of poor weather conditions, the Wizards' faithful came in droves to cheer their team to victory.
The rain began just minutes into the action. This stimulated crowd would not be moved. The drums sounded and the chants seemed to increase.
Wizard Middle Infielder Jack Jewsbury scored a pair of goals in the early going, one for his team and one for the other. Note: Scoring a goal for the other team is called an own goal. Anyone who believed Soccer to be predictable was most assuredly proven wrong on this night.
At halftime, the Revolution led 3-1, a high scoring affair in the Major Soccer League. As the second half began, the rain started coming down harder.
The downpour didn't subdue the crowd, in fact the drums got louder. The players were soaked head to toe, with their fans sopping wet right along with their beloved Wizards.
This was no ordinary rain either. Wind gusts and temperatures in the 40s made conditions miserable.
Time passed, the cold precipitation continued, and for Kansas City and a shivering, wet crowd, the Revolution continued to lead.
It would seem that loyalty of this ilk would be, should be rewarded. It didn't seem fair that all the suffering, all the pain, all the sogginess that our fandom had to endure might not garner a victory.
It was simply too cold inside the stadium for these fans to go home on the losing end of the spectrum. But in a scoreless second half, that's exactly what happened.
All things considered, the experience was a good one and it's recommended as a premium entertainment choice for UMKC students. This writer gives it five kicks!
One other thing not mentioned to this point; the new digs include an incredible climate controlled press box. Indeed, not a bad place to catch a game!
dstroud@unews.com
The closer proximity of the game to its fans has the appeal of a much more intense brand of soccer than this writer last experienced. Even with the threat of poor weather conditions, the Wizards' faithful came in droves to cheer their team to victory.
The rain began just minutes into the action. This stimulated crowd would not be moved. The drums sounded and the chants seemed to increase.
Wizard Middle Infielder Jack Jewsbury scored a pair of goals in the early going, one for his team and one for the other. Note: Scoring a goal for the other team is called an own goal. Anyone who believed Soccer to be predictable was most assuredly proven wrong on this night.
At halftime, the Revolution led 3-1, a high scoring affair in the Major Soccer League. As the second half began, the rain started coming down harder.
The downpour didn't subdue the crowd, in fact the drums got louder. The players were soaked head to toe, with their fans sopping wet right along with their beloved Wizards.
This was no ordinary rain either. Wind gusts and temperatures in the 40s made conditions miserable.
Time passed, the cold precipitation continued, and for Kansas City and a shivering, wet crowd, the Revolution continued to lead.
It would seem that loyalty of this ilk would be, should be rewarded. It didn't seem fair that all the suffering, all the pain, all the sogginess that our fandom had to endure might not garner a victory.
It was simply too cold inside the stadium for these fans to go home on the losing end of the spectrum. But in a scoreless second half, that's exactly what happened.
All things considered, the experience was a good one and it's recommended as a premium entertainment choice for UMKC students. This writer gives it five kicks!
One other thing not mentioned to this point; the new digs include an incredible climate controlled press box. Indeed, not a bad place to catch a game!
dstroud@unews.com
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SombraAla
posted 4/15/08 @ 3:52 PM CST
Typo(?): Not an 'on goal' but an 'own goal'
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