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03-20-2006, 03:25 PM
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MLS: Red Bull New York offering free tickets, trips to season opener in DC
Interesting... just sign up on the website, put down a $25 deposit (which you get back when you show up), and you go to the season opener for free. Free bus transportation NY/DC, free ticket, and free tailgate party.
If this is the first step of the Red Bull group trying to drum up fan support, I think it's a good one. |
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03-20-2006, 03:39 PM
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Yeah, it is... though also smacks of desperation.
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03-20-2006, 05:38 PM
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All you have to do is cheer "Let's Go Red Bull"
It's part of their contractual agreement with MLS when the team sold its soul and identity.
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03-20-2006, 05:49 PM
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Red Bull New York. It gives you a crappy footy team
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03-20-2006, 05:54 PM
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I think it is kind of ironic that soccer fans are saying this... seeing that they were advertising on the front of their shirts just about everywhere except the US and Barcelona.
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03-20-2006, 05:58 PM
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There've been ads on US team kits for years (not to mention the national team even, I think Philips was on there for a time).  |
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03-20-2006, 06:01 PM
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God if I hear the Phillips "Goals Goals Goals For the Red White and Blue" song at any more US games, there better not be any guns within easy reach
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03-20-2006, 06:01 PM
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That's like asking if God would be unhappy for smiting a lamb. Hell, they started a new club b/c an American took over.
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03-20-2006, 06:02 PM
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I don't mind advertising. But if Manchester United -- not that Metrostars are even in the same universe -- changed its name to MDX United or Manchester Pepsi...you think fans would be happy?
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03-20-2006, 06:06 PM
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Plus there was the controvesey when they took over Salzburg in Austria, and basically denied that the past 94 years of the team's existence had happened. Got rid of the team colors, changed information on the team site, said the team was founded in 2003, it was basically as if Red Bull had bought the the team's place in the austrian leagues and their stadium but not their league
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03-20-2006, 06:10 PM
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The Metrostars had fans?  I think a <15 year old team with no championships to its name doesn't have the history for fans to really object to a rebranding.
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03-20-2006, 06:24 PM
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Damn you if Glazer hears this 
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03-20-2006, 11:45 PM
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The whole damn league is less than <15. It doesn't matter. There is no real US precedent to this and to do it in the league's biggest market which it is still fumbling to tap, is a stupid idea to me.
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03-21-2006, 12:03 AM
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Exactly. Like it really matters if the name changes? Dallas Burn to FC Dallas didn't cause any uproar. Who cares if they are named for an energy drink? Quote:
There is no real US precedent to putting advertising on jersies like some MLS teams have done, either. And RedBull fans seems to be happy that they can rid of the idiots who used to run the club (...into the ground). Red Bull seems to be very interested in making the club and league successful.
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03-21-2006, 01:19 AM
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Can I get a link for this?
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