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DC United Exploring Baltimore Move

Drew Epperley — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:00:47 +0000

This place just isn't working out for DC. (Getty Images)

Another bit of news I wanted but couldn’t touch on yesterday.

DC United has been making news this week at a possible move to Baltimore. United’s unhappiness with RFK Stadium is well documented over the last few years and only continues to get worse for the Black-and-Red.

United is laying the groundwork for a possible move though. According to the Washington Post, Baltimore has entered into preliminary talks with the team about moving to a new stadium Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium. Team president Kevin Payne – who has been involved with United from the very beginning – made it clear that something has to be done.

“This isn’t a game. This is serious. This isn’t a bluff. Part of it is trying to understand what that means for our business.”

United is now looking down the road to Baltimore and the league has even commissioned a survey to explore that possibility.

A very interesting survey that really ticked some folks off around the league. Odd to see both Columbus and Dallas on the list of clubs that fans may have moved to Baltimore. Same goes to having Philadelphia and New York on there as well. All four of those clubs have stadiums of their own, youth systems that they have invested lots of money (millions even) in, and even if the fan bases aren’t there in Columbus or Dallas, the clubs are still fairly well funded by the Hunts.

I know the Hunts are trying to get more local investors in Columbus to help potentially sell off that club but that is still a ways away. But even that item is another topic for another day.

Time for a change, even if it is a move for United. I know some fans won’t want this to happen but if it gets the team to be healthy again financially, the move is all worth it in the end. Soccer is a business too ya know.

DC United On Their Current RFK Deal

Drew Epperley — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:34:35 +0000

We know the DC United stadium situation isn’t getting any better anytime soon but at least they’re being blunt about trying to fix their current lease with RFK Stadium.

Final Three Qualifer Locations Announced

Drew Epperley — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:51:02 +0000

The three remaining World Cup qualifying game locations have been announced today by the USSF. Chicago, Salt Lake City and Washington DC all will host the final three games of qualifying.

Chicago will host the Honduras game at Solider Field on June 6th; Rio Tino Stadium in Sandy, Utah, will host the El Salvador game on September 5th; and RFK Stadium will see the final game against Costa Rica on October 14th.

I said before those were the three cities I thought would host the final games after they announced Nashville as a host for a game last week. I think I just got the order wrong in the process. I believe I had Salt Lake hosting the June game in my prediction and Chicago hosting the September one.

Three quality picks for locations if you ask me. Nashville still blows my mind away but these three will sell well, no doubt about that.

11 is nice, 12 is better

Drew Epperley — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:30:26 +0000

DC United won their 12th club trophy last night in the 2008 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup with their 2-1 defeat of the USL-1 Charleston Battery at RFK Stadium. DC was lead by their two Brazilians Luciano Emilio and Fred in this one as Emilio got the Black-and-Red up early and after Charleston leveled things at 1-1, Fred put home the go ahead goal shortly after the start of the second half.

This was probably one of the more entertaining US Open Cup finals that I’ve seen in the past couple years. Maybe it was because of the DC fans making RFK a fortress or maybe it was because you had a USL club in the final for the first time in a few years.

With the win, DC becomes the first MLS club to qualify for the 2009/10 edition of the CONCACAF Champions League.

Below is some highlights of the game as well as some photos of DC and the trophy.