PODCAST – Hello Colorado Rapids Fans! This week on Holding The High Line, Rabbi and Red have a thought experiment. We discuss what it would be like for the Rapids to leave DSG Park. We discuss how the design, location, and details of MLS soccer specific stadiums have changed over the years, how DSG Park has and hasn’t satisfied those standards. The guys talk potential sites and how the club should go about looking for a site for a new stadium come 2040-ish.
Colorado Rapids Podcast: Leave DSG Park for new Soccer-Specific Stadium
We spend way to much time on this, but our conversation will give you a comprehensive idea of how the Rapids would leave DSG, how and where they’d look for a new site, what key qualities that new site would need, and how they’d get it done.
Oh, and Matt has way to much fun suggesting that Dillon Powers cyber-hacked Dundee FC so ensure he and Dundee United won promotion to the Scottish Premier League for next year. He didn’t but Dundee still had a pretty big howler this week that will have a significant impact on Scottish Football.
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About Us
Matt Pollard is the Site Manager for Last Word on Soccer and an engineer by day. A Colorado Convert, he started covering the Colorado Rapids as a credentialed member of the press in 2016, though he’s watched MLS since ’96. When he’s not watching or writing about soccer, he’s being an outdoorsman (mostly skiing and hiking) in this beautiful state or trying a new beer. For some reason, he thought that starting a podcast with Mark was a good idea and he can’t figure out how to stop this madness. He also hosts Last Word SC Radio.
Mark Goodman, the artist formally known as Rapids Rabbi, moved to Colorado in 2011. Shortly thereafter he went to Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, saw Lee Nguyen dribble a ball with the silky smoothness of liquid chocolate cascading into a Bar Mitzvah fountain, and promptly fell head over heels in love with domestic soccer. When not watching soccer or coaching his son’s U-8 team, he’s generally studying either Talmud or medieval biblical exegesis. Which explains why he watches so much MLS, probably. Having relocated to Pittsburgh in 2019, he covers the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the USL for Pittsburgh Soccer Now.
