memyselfI
04-23-2012, 04:40 PM
So, yeah, it was only the lowly professional soccer team in town showering with rats and mice. I can't thank them enough for liberating soccer in this town. I'm praying they will do the same for football.
http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/sporting-kansas-city-is-sitting-pretty-these-days/
For most of that decade, the team had been an afterthought in Kansas City, playing in mostly empty football or baseball stadiums. Commissioner Don Garber visited in 2005 to discuss the possibility of moving the team with the players. Even the team’s own training facility for the first part of the decade didn’t feel like a home.
“The showers were clogged up, so if you weren’t one of the first five guys, you’d be standing in a half a foot of water because the drainage system was so bad,” said Zavagnin, now an assistant coach with the team. “We had rats, mice, and every other kind of visitor you could imagine.”
http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/sporting-kansas-city-is-sitting-pretty-these-days/
For most of that decade, the team had been an afterthought in Kansas City, playing in mostly empty football or baseball stadiums. Commissioner Don Garber visited in 2005 to discuss the possibility of moving the team with the players. Even the team’s own training facility for the first part of the decade didn’t feel like a home.
“The showers were clogged up, so if you weren’t one of the first five guys, you’d be standing in a half a foot of water because the drainage system was so bad,” said Zavagnin, now an assistant coach with the team. “We had rats, mice, and every other kind of visitor you could imagine.”