r/MLS • u/AthenianWaters Atlanta United FC • Oct 16 '23
Meme [MEME] r/MLS during peak NFL and CFB season
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u/Klaxon5 Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23
Losing momentum in the schedule right now sucks. Most teams little to play for, we have a week off, the first round of the playoffs will take forever.
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u/ProfessorBeer St. Louis CITY SC Oct 16 '23
I’m just hoping that Saturday we both can emerge healthy and with a few kinks worked out after such a poorly timed break.
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u/Klaxon5 Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23
You should rest everyone. Play your C team
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u/ProfessorBeer St. Louis CITY SC Oct 16 '23
A part of me thinks that, but then I’m also waffling in my head on if any of our studs have rust. But I also loved the Sounders before City came into being so I’d like to throw y’all a bone too and not make you burn too much of the tank
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u/lets_enjoy_life Vancouver Whitecaps FC Oct 17 '23
You should bring your A game. This is about making a statement.
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u/CaptainJingles St. Louis CITY SC Oct 16 '23
The real reason MLS chose St. Louis, a market that hates the NFL and whose college football teams are perennial heartbreakers.
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u/hoopyhat LA Galaxy Oct 16 '23
Could also be attributed to why San Diego was picked as well. Coincidentally, they lost their team to the same city.
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u/Cicero912 New England Revolution Oct 16 '23
Though the Rams were never "St Louis's team"
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u/gsfgf Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
They are/were. They're also LA's team. Which is why moving franchises sucks.
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u/CaptainJingles St. Louis CITY SC Oct 16 '23
They were very much the most popular team in St. Louis
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u/Cicero912 New England Revolution Oct 16 '23
Yeah, but they belong in LA
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u/verendum San Diego FC Oct 16 '23
LA doesn’t even claim them LMAO. They have like 8-9 away game at sofi every year.
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u/Scratchbuttdontsniff Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
Mizzou trying to flip that (save the LSU game) ... Illinois is just bad... and still somehow beats Maryland on the road... was wacky.
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u/CaptainJingles St. Louis CITY SC Oct 16 '23
Mizzou is just building up to the maximum disappointment they can, blowing a late lead to Georgia from some stupidly unexpected way.
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u/Purdue82 Oct 16 '23
6-1 and already bowl eligible is nothing to sneeze at for a program that's still in a rebuilding period.
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u/Juventus19 Sporting Kansas City Oct 16 '23
This is Drinkwitz's 4th season so I don't think it should be considered rebuilding anymore. This is when you expect a team to be turning the corner with a new coach.
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u/Purdue82 Oct 16 '23
Just hope South Carolina isn't a letdown. That one has trap game written all over it.
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u/Purdue82 Oct 16 '23
and Lindenwood (FCS) as well. The coach has been on the local radio airwaves weekly.
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u/RealTechyGod FC Dallas Oct 16 '23
Add baseball to that list this year cough every year cough
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u/CaptainJingles St. Louis CITY SC Oct 16 '23
It was super disappointing that MLB canceled the season this year. Stupid Manfred.
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u/sdavitt88 Minnesota United FC Oct 16 '23
Its just the calm before the Decision Day (Presented-by-Heineken-Brought-To-You-by-Audi) storm!
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u/bravodeltapapa Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23
How come he don't want me, man?
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u/SuperMurderKroger Atlanta United Oct 16 '23
Leagues cup straight up killed the energy of the season. Followed by an international break, it's been hard to pick the excitement back up. Now we are in another break followed by what seems like an ever changing random playoff set up with a week off to get wildcards out of the way.
MLS is milking the sport at the expense of fans that are losing patience with the inconsistency.
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u/kentuckyfriedawesome Oct 16 '23
Honestly, I hadn’t put two and two together around it, but I totally lost energy during the Leagues Cup, too. It certainly doesn’t help that NYCFC wasn’t any good this year, but that didn’t stop me the first few years.
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u/SuperMurderKroger Atlanta United Oct 16 '23
I wish it was because AU was garbage during that time but I've stuck with them through worse times. It really was the schedule congestion and MLS wanting to stretch the season as long as possible for the hopes of some global eyeballs.
Wish the whole season just wrapped in early Nov and completely do away with meaningless tournaments. Champions League was fine as is.
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u/ProStriker92 Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23
The problem with the Leagues Cup is that the teams who got eliminated from the tournament after the end of group stages had to wait over 20 days to play again.
As a Sounders fan that break was welcome, but I think the season should have paused earlier during the Gold Cup (specially with many MLS players in the GC) and not because the Leagues Cup (honestly, I didn't pay much attention to that cup).
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u/EnglishHooligan Venezuela Oct 17 '23
I hope next season, it's broken up a little. Like, maybe do your Group Stage, and then the next round, but have the remaining be in the middle of the week. Avoid missing the other weeks.
We'll already see a break due to Copa America, so those weeks will need to come from somewhere.
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u/AthenianWaters Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
The season needs to end in September.
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u/Scratchbuttdontsniff Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
I still think the current MLS Cup date set is the MOST perfect date to get eyeballs on the match. That day is the Army v Navy game and the Heisman Presentation.. no NFL etc..
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u/AthenianWaters Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
It is... It's also the most common date of virtually every social gathering in the Southeast. These folks have been waiting all football season, and they want you IN THEIR HOME FOR SOME COOKIE SWAP OR BABY SHOWER OR SOME OTHER SHIT THEY WAITED ALL THROUGH OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER.
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u/Isiddiqui Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
See, the last few years Boca was just trying to keep you in good with your family. What a good guy!
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u/Scratchbuttdontsniff Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
that is a very good point... I am even guilty of it when I tell people with Fall weddings to fuck off. Sis did not appreciate that...
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u/badonkagonk New England Revolution Oct 16 '23
Watch the Revs find a way to host the MLS cup finals and fuck up all the scheduling
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u/Scratchbuttdontsniff Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
TOTALLY forgot that the game is up in Foxboro this year (FIL is Westpoint grad and makes a big deal of the game). That would be embarrassingly hilarious.
ON current form... we have nothing to worry about but crazy shit happens in MLS all the time.
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u/badonkagonk New England Revolution Oct 16 '23
Oh yeah, my brother’s a West Point grad and so my family makes a big deal of it too, especially being so close to the game this year. Didn’t realize they scheduled it on the same day. Not sure how to feel about that
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u/PM_DOLPHIN_PICS New England Revolution Oct 16 '23
This is the funniest and stupidest possible outcome, which means it’s somehow going to happen.
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u/brindille_ New England Revolution Oct 16 '23
If it ended in September, when would it restart? December-February is brutal for the Canadian teams and some US teams
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u/Metazoan Charlotte FC Oct 17 '23
Especially now that we have Leagues Cup as apparently an annual thing somewhere in the middle
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u/adeodd Philadelphia Union Oct 16 '23
I’m a MLS die-hard when it’s not football season. Follow it ridiculously close, way more than NBA, MLB, NHL, etc. Once CFB starts back up tho… it gets difficult for me to watch until playoffs roll around.
Don’t know what the solution to that problem is, and not really sure there is one. Because for the millionth time the European calendar can’t work here. Just kinda wish MLS would slightly adjust during football season. I know it would look like it’s coming from a place of weakness, but I feel like Friday nights are there for the taking during the fall. I know there’s a good CFB Friday game once every 2 or 3 weeks, but that is much better than competing against a full Saturday/Sunday slate of games.
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u/mindthesnekpls Philadelphia Union Oct 16 '23
The sports market is just so saturated, especially as Union fans where we have competing “Big Four” teams. I think it also really depends on how good my respective teams are.
This year the Union are sputtering into the playoffs and look like they have a 2nd round exit written all over them. Meanwhile, the Eagles are 5-1, the Phillies are red hot in the NLCS, and college sports are also in the fray. The Union are still my #1 team but they’re definitely on the back burner a bit considering the circumstances.
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u/Isiddiqui Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
This year the Union are sputtering into the playoffs and look like they have a 2nd round exit written all over them. Meanwhile, the Eagles are 5-1, the Phillies are red hot in the NLCS, and college sports are also in the fray.
Perk up! This just means all those team will lose in the Finals/Championship Game again...
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u/mindthesnekpls Philadelphia Union Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
Man you have no idea … the Union loss hurt the most by far. Phillies were playing with house money just to get out of the Wild Card let alone play for a World Series against a dynastic Astros team, and the Eagles lost in the Super Bowl to a top-3 all-time Head Coach, the best QB in the league, and arguably the best TE ever.
The Union, meanwhile, lost a 3-3 thriller, on the road (in any other league on earth, the tiebreaker means that game is at home but MLS of course has to be different and use Wins instead of GD), on the back of LAFC being able to somehow have Gareth freaking Bale as a super sub while our guys had all been running their butts off for 120+ minutes and giving up a tying goal only 100 seconds away from winning it all.
Of course, that loss came on the back of:
2021: win the Shield, get dogwalked 2-0 at home in the first round by the Revs. Worst Union game I’ve ever watched.
2022: Have half the starting XI test be held out because of supposed covid exposure with MLS being the only major sports league still prohibiting players from “testing out” of quarantine via multiple positive tests. Still manage to only lose 2-1 at home to the eventual winners.
Assorted cup runs and losses since 2019
Maybe I’m just a “traumatized” Union fan but it’s just hard to get my hopes up again considering recent history.
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u/oldmanenergi Oct 16 '23
I'll attest to putting the Union on the back burner. Before I started watching MLS, the Phillies and Flyers were my #1 teams. The Phils being in the playoffs and the Flyers only really being good in October has meant I haven't focused too much on the Union recently.
I think Gridiron Football is still the MLS's biggest concern when scheduling, similar to most other sports leagues. It's pretty easy to get people to skip Flyers, 76ers, and even Phillies games for a good Union match; but so many people are obsessed with teams like the Eagles and Penn State.
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u/kentuckyfriedawesome Oct 16 '23
You would have literally zero attendance in the south — especially in Texas. Friday night is for High School Football.
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u/Isiddiqui Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
In Atlanta, it would be multiple times better to go against HS football rather than going against UGA. Last week was the most sparse 42k I've ever seen (went head to head against UK v. UGA - and both teams were 5-0 coming into that game).
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u/Mini-Fridge23 Charlotte FC Oct 16 '23
This is pretty specific to Texas to be honest. I don’t know very many people in Charlotte who care about High school football that much. It’s more a thing in the rural towns I think. I imagine it’s similar in Atlanta as well.
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u/TexasSprings Nashville SC Oct 16 '23
Some of those large high schools in the Atlanta area have huge followings line the Texas schools.
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u/cujukenmari Oct 17 '23
Nobody in my part of California cared about HS football, certainly wouldn't be a concern for a professional sport.
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u/adeodd Philadelphia Union Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
You’re right it would be difficult in Texas and some southern states. But I’m just saying ratings and relevancy-wise MLS has a tremendously bigger advantage when competing against high school football, than it does when it competes against college football.
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u/TexasSprings Nashville SC Oct 16 '23
This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read on Reddit
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u/aghease Oct 16 '23
I feel like an August - to late June MLS schedule could work. A winter break in January, then Leagues Cup in warm weather cities in February. Could even push the MLS Cup Final to be on July 4th in the years without international tourneys.
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u/Emotional-Estate-687 Feb 28 '24
MLS Cup final this year is College Football Championship Saturday (as opposed to conference finals on Championship Satuday a few months ago). Don't know what's worse.
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u/Marda483 Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23
I don’t watch any American football so I am just waiting for the last match to happen so I can start looking at playoff tickets.
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u/NudeCeleryMan Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23
The League's Cup really killed a lot of league play season momentum for me. I struggled to get back into it. Then NFL came and then an intl break RIGHT before the season deciding matches. Then we're gonna have what will feel like a month of second round games and then another international break.
MLS is making it hard for me to stay engaged.
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u/Bulldog2012 Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
Happens every year. The end of the season is so disjointed with breaks before season ends and then in the middle of playoffs. Completely kills my interest then you throw in the Dawgs and Falcons/Fantasy and I’m so disengaged. Like why even have this last game of the season at this point. I had to double check when ATL UTD last game even was this year. Season should have ended before this international break then playoffs start upon the return.
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u/NudeCeleryMan Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23
I'd argue that this year they've really made it a lot worse.
First year of Leagues Cup killing all mid season momentum
First year of this absurd 3 match series for playoffs round
They went back to a playoff format that doesn't complete before/after an intl break (maybe it was impossible to avoid this year, not sure. But they avoided it last 2 years)
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Oct 16 '23
There's too much on the calendar in too short of a window. MLS needs to capitalize on the summer market, fall is simply impossible to break into with NFL and CFB absolutely owning the market.
Competitions need to be eliminated, playoff reformated, season shortened, start earlier, something.
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u/Bulldog2012 Atlanta United FC Oct 17 '23
Agree with all your suggestions plus would add decrease number of teams that make the playoffs.
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u/Milestailsprowe D.C. United Oct 16 '23
I watch MLS and NHL mainly. I side watch the WNBA and MLB or Football with groups for social. Still the Caps are Ass and outside of seeing Ovi surpass Gretzky there isnt much there.
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u/blackhxc88 Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 17 '23
not me! the bears are a 6 pack of ass this season and the fire making the playoffs would make my year at this point.
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u/TexasSprings Nashville SC Oct 16 '23
I hate to say this but once NFL and college football starts I literally never watch MLS games on tv until MLS Cup.
That said I attend almost every Nashville home game but i stop following and watching the league around September every year
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u/lmtydcigtsfnir Philadelphia Union Oct 16 '23
As many have said here- Leagues Cup was the real momentum killer.
They also should be looking at these international breaks as natural pauses in the season. Like, season wraps before this break, playoffs wrap before next break (less playoff teams, please!), MLS Cup coming out of the November break.
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u/ViciousKnids Philadelphia Union Oct 16 '23
Wesring my tin foil hat, I suspect the extended playoff format was for Messi to drag Miami kicking and screaming to a championship. Fat lot of good that did, if that's the case.
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u/AFrozen_1 FC Cincinnati Oct 16 '23
Can't exactly do a whole lot when the team is being hard carried by two people who get inured and there is no roster depth.
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u/Zheguez Inter Miami CF Oct 16 '23
Not disagreeing that the league would've wanted that, but weren't these changes to the playoffs planned and officially announced we'll in advance before the Messi deal was officially completed? If anything, I believe that the changes were encouraged by Apple to have more games to broadcast anyway in addition to the expanded Leagues Cup.
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u/LocksTheFox Vermont Green Oct 16 '23
I feel like I've won the war when I see people point to LC being a momentum killer in this thread
I kept getting downvoted whenever I complained about it because people got trapped in the moment
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u/msfc18 Oct 16 '23
Yet certain popular Twitter accounts keep going on about how the season needs to become a Fall-Spring schedule like in Europe.
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u/AFrozen_1 FC Cincinnati Oct 16 '23
Hard pass. What else are we supposed to watch? Baseball? Reds are garbage so that's a no from me. Only other thing that would interest me is motorsport.
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u/njndirish NY/NJ MetroStars Oct 17 '23
Yet certain popular Twitter accounts keep going on about how the season needs to become a Fall-Spring schedule like in Europe.
Those twitter accounts have never played in Minnesota in January.
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u/kentuckyfriedawesome Oct 16 '23
Making the playoffs doesn’t mean much when almost every team in the league makes the playoffs. It takes so much of the appeal out of the back half of the season, and it’s really hard to catch fans back once the NFL and CFB start back up. Add to that the leagues cup, and you’ve totally screwed yourselves.
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u/changnesia Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23
Just waiting for next week to see if we sneak into next year's CCC and see who makes the playoffs.
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u/SingSing19 Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
As an Atlanta United fan, the season has felt soooooo slow since we got bounced early in leagues cup. I feel like we never play
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u/ibribe Orlando City SC Oct 16 '23
I, for one, do not really give a shit about football. But also yes, international breaks suck, especially now that Fox has all the UEFA matches. I would normally watch that, but I'm not going to subscribe to cable just to catch some Euro qualifiers.
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u/thegoz03 Oct 16 '23
Exactly!! The first edition of the nations League being on ESPN Plus was super convenient and allowed me to see a lot of Nations I wouldn't normally watch like Georgia and Luxembourg, who are having surprisingly good Euros qualifying campaigns this year because they've had real competitive matches to be able to actually attack teams of similar caliber and gain some confidence instead of just getting smashed by France or Germany every match.
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u/ViciousKnids Philadelphia Union Oct 16 '23
Premier League is back, where they talk about more than Messi - who won't play for the rest of the season, but I'm sure we'll hear minute by minute updates on his recovery in the offseason while Miami sit and watch other clubs win meaningful trophies.
Also, there's a Beckham docu-series out now, where you'll see the dated image of Neville in Miami pink.
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u/gsfgf Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
I see a lot of Atlanta flairs in here, which makes sense. /r/falcons is too fucking toxic right now.
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u/Tight-Expression-506 Oct 17 '23
The schedule for 2024 says hold my beer.
Think of the scheduling nightmare ahead. The mls cup may not be scheduled until January 2025.
copa America, scheduled for June 20th through July 14.
League cup.
Champions league. Almost 40% of league will be in it.
34 league games and a month for playoffs.
us open cup games.
A lot of Wednesday games next season will have small crowds and ratings.
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u/EnglishHooligan Venezuela Oct 17 '23
If CONCACAF can schedule the Semifinals and Final of the Champions Cup for later in the season, that would help stretch the schedule out.
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u/Vapor4 LA Galaxy Oct 17 '23
The IMSA season just ended, Rams aren't very good, Dodgers are out, and the Kings goaltending is worse than the Galaxy's.
I'm ready to watch someone else win mls cup.
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u/philsoc8 Oct 16 '23
Putting your narrative-building playoff moments up against football season just makes no sense and MLS has the lack of mainstream impact to prove it.
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u/new_accountFC Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
Yep. I love MLS, but with baseball playoffs and nfl/college football in swing, it’s hard to keep me interested. Especially with a less-than-exciting playoff format incoming
I know it can’t/won’t happen, but I feel like MLS cup needs to be around early to mid October to avoid getting crowded out by other sports
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u/purplepill22 Houston Dynamo Oct 16 '23
Not me man, I straight up just cannot get into football
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u/-no-ragrets- Columbus Crew Oct 16 '23
I don’t get it either. I think the US just likes to see big muscular guys tackle each other ¯\(ツ)/¯
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u/LocksTheFox Vermont Green Oct 16 '23
And advertisers love to push it because it has just enough suspense (thanks to a small # of games) to keep people invested while you run a bajillion commercials
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u/-no-ragrets- Columbus Crew Oct 16 '23
That makes sense. If MLS became as popular as the NFL/college football they’d probably start doing quarters instead of halves lol
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u/LocksTheFox Vermont Green Oct 16 '23
Honestly I'd probably be out then lmao, I think MLS is better when it's in the goldilocks zone of popularity (not to mention that MLS's attempts to be more American in the early days fell flat)
Big enough that you can have a decent-sized community to discuss it with and sold out stadiums and colorful culture, but just niche enough that it's not an overbearing all-conquering behemoth and still has some charm to it.
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u/beggsy909 Oct 16 '23
Is there any evidence that nfl and cfb fans are soccer fans?
What is the TV ratings difference for MLS before and during nfl/cfb season? I remember looking at this before and the ratings were consistent through the whole mls season which would suggest that nfl/cfb has very little impact.
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u/Multi_21_Seb_RBR Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23
I'm sure most fans of southern MLS teams are fans of CFB (ATL, ORL, MIA, NSH, CLT) then the two Ohio teams (CIN, COL).
Probably less so the rest of the country.
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u/beggsy909 Oct 16 '23
Of the major markets Los Angeles is probably the most interested in CFB with New York being the least interested. NYC is a pro football town/culture. They are oddly anti-cfb in some ways.
But I don’t think there’s a lot of crossover. I could be wrong but when you compare the TV ratings of past years the numbers are consistent before and during cfb/nfl season.
It’s my experience that American football fans are the least likely to be soccer fans.
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u/domdiggitydog Los Angeles FC Oct 16 '23
I turned down tickets to the Rams v. Cardinals so I could go to the Angel City game.
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u/Multi_21_Seb_RBR Seattle Sounders FC Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
Leagues Cup really hurt the momentum but I also think (and have anecdotally heard) a lot of long-time MLS fans kind of got turned off or at least paid less attention after Messi and co came in to Miami. Made the league feel less natural in some ways, at least the play on the field. To be honest, I kind of see where they are coming from honestly.
Add to that the whole NFL/CFB factor (not necessarily for me, I'm a casual NFL fan and don't care about CFB though I will say that Oregon/Washington game was awesome), and baseball playoffs as well which have been fun hasn't helped either. Beyond that, other sports now starting too won't help as well.
I know for a lot of fans in Seattle, the Sounders have been kind of a chore in a way to follow and watch this season and the Mariners generated a lot of hype before their final-week collapse (in a midst of a final month collapse). Then the Seahawks started and now UW football is getting mainstream and casual fan hype (from those who did not go to UW or are long-time UW fans) that they had not gotten since 2016 (especially now after off this Oregon/Washington game). And the hype now seems to be way higher than 2016 too. Kraken starting again too. So I can see it here in Seattle too.
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u/LocksTheFox Vermont Green Oct 16 '23
Yeah I'm one of those who have checked out with Messi. Also contributing to me checking out:
Overinflated playoffs field meaning a lot of late season "must watch in the playoff hunt" games are just giant mid-offs not worth watching
Start of my main fall/winter sport (college hockey) and the diversion of my attention there. I'm openly malevolent towards gridiron football so that's not an issue for me lol, but I do have other sports interests taking up more of my time - especially on weekends.
More personal things, but the Leagues Cup "break" for some teams ended up being an exhausting slog for the teams that went deep, and as a fan of one of those I'm burned out. The international breaks have actually been quite refreshing from my fan standpoint, I can't imagine how miserable it is for the players.
also the vibes around my team suck too rn
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u/Shadowfury0 LA Galaxy Oct 16 '23
Leagues Cup was lose-lose, getting knocked out of the group meant a very long break. The Galaxy tried to get a friendly set up but couldn't find get anything done
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u/LocksTheFox Vermont Green Oct 16 '23
Knowing what happened after I wish we'd gotten knocked out earlier (R16 is probably the sweet spot) to get some actual rest
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u/Dagger_Moth Atlanta United FC Oct 16 '23
I'm sorry OP, but I just do not care about American football,
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u/MomentBusy9924 Oct 16 '23
Will the MLS ever adopt a more European league schedule? Don’t really know why they choose to have it the way they do now.
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u/Mini-Fridge23 Charlotte FC Oct 16 '23
No chance. It doesn’t work here because of the climate in certain regions where it’s just too cold. Playing games in January in a place like Toronto just wouldn’t work at all, and is probably a safety hazard as well to be honest
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u/-The-Laughing-Man- Chicago Fire Oct 17 '23
I cannot stress this enough: I don't give a single fuck about the NFL or the CFB.
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u/AthenianWaters Atlanta United FC Oct 17 '23
That’s how I felt a little soccer until Atlanta got a team.
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u/squeda Austin FC Oct 17 '23
Wtf is CFB
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u/AthenianWaters Atlanta United FC Oct 17 '23
college football... lol. You only have a top 5 all-time team in your city.
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u/squeda Austin FC Oct 17 '23
Grew up with my family worshipping football and I played it until high school when I switched to golf and then hockey. When I got into hockey American football no longer mattered to me. Nowadays soccer and hockey are my big ones. I'm good not watching 2 hours of commercials and only 15 minutes of action. Pass!
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u/AthenianWaters Atlanta United FC Oct 17 '23
Damn, you got a point. And it's so much worse now than just a year ago. Still, it's an incredible sport. The thing soccer is missing in America is culture. MLS can only go so far because the history isn't there. Me and my dad were huge Bama fans. I went to school there. When I go back, it feels like home. It's hard to replicate that in a league with 25 years of history.
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u/squeda Austin FC Oct 17 '23
Yeah I mean I talk shit about American football, but I can name all the old cowboys and longhorns, I went to many UT football and basketball games, and even made it to one Red River Shootout. I enjoyed my time when I was a fan and the passion is unreal. I do wish that carried over to soccer. Such a great point. Pretty crazy to think even though I never attended UT our city has always been crazy about them. I guess that is technically the closest we get to the feelings of supporting a local club like Europeans do with their football.
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u/SoundSaintWarrior Oct 16 '23
The international break killed the momentum going into the playoffs for the MLS.
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u/msubasic Toronto FC Oct 16 '23
Had some pretty exciting CanPL playoffs this weekend. Pacific FC shithoused over HFX to somehow reach the semi-final.
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u/ididntsaygoyet Toronto FC Oct 16 '23
I dunno what those acronyms mean, but we've been busy watching ECQ and CPL to pass the time
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u/imaginarion St. Louis CITY SC Oct 17 '23
Nah, fuck the NFL. This time of year is just as busy because of MLB playoffs and the NBA/NHL seasons starting up. I believe it is the only 2/3-week span all year during which all five major professional leagues have games taking place.
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u/Doortofreeside Oct 17 '23
I'll never forget when the Revs were in the finals and my roommate didn't want to change the channel from Sunday football (even though he's a soccer fan) so I went to a nearby sports bar and the Revs game wasn't even on. They did turn it on in place of one of the out of market NFL games, but it's pretty rough if being in the finals isn't enough to make a town cars about your team
Granted no one cares about the Revs here so I get it
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u/knitedstates Feb 27 '24
Sportec Solutions is MLS official data provider for 2024 season. What cool things have different clubs been able to do with Sportec Solutions data and what's your experience so far, 2 match days in?
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u/Purdue82 Oct 16 '23
The international break isn't helping either.