Bill Reese

As a New York Red Bulls supporter, I have enjoyed joking about New York City FC playing in a baseball stadium (or multiple baseball stadiums) for a decade.

But their new stadium in Queens looks like it will be fantastic. It's good for the sport, good for the league, good for the city.

Won't necessarily be good for the Red Bulls… but they've had their chances and squandered almost every one of them.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7053273/2026/02/18/nycfc-etihad-park-mls-stadium-new-york-dunivant/

#MLS #NYCFC

NYCFC looks forward with ‘most important stadium … in this country’ coming next year

The wait will go on for a little bit longer for NYCFC, but the club is expecting Etihad Park to be a game-changer when it opens in 2027

The Athletic
Feb 18 at 6:44pmWeb
Show thread30YrdScreamerFeb 18
@reesecommabill it looks amazing. I didn't realize they were owned by the Man City lot though.
Show threadBill ReeseFeb 18

@30yrdscreamer Yeah. They're owned by City, my team is owned by Red Bull, neither top flight club in the city is truly "authentic." We're both just satellite offshoots of global conglomerates.

There are a few local sides in the USL (the lower divisions that can't win promotion to MLS), one of which is a rebooted New York Cosmos franchise playing in Paterson, New Jersey that kicks off next month.

Show thread30YrdScreamerFeb 18
@reesecommabill I guess the size of that stadium suggests that MLS is thriving at the moment?
Show threadBill ReeseFeb 18
@30yrdscreamer A capacity of 25,000 to 30,000 is the size that works for most clubs in the league. There are only a select few that can draw more than that on a regular basis.
Show threadEndyFeb 18
@reesecommabill Red Bulls shouldn't be New York unless they're not funded or supported by New Jersey. It's the same reason I do everything in my power not to do anything that supports the NFL because of the two East Rutherford teams that steal our tax money and ruin our traffic half the year while naming themselves after another state.
Show threadBill ReeseFeb 18
@egoldblatt There is a large number of us that would prefer to be "Metro S.C." or something like that. Alas, it's not up to us.
Show threadEndyFeb 18
@reesecommabill No, but if the large number of people who care were to boycott them and stop giving money, it might help.
Show threadBill ReeseFeb 19
@egoldblatt There's just not that many of us in the first place for them to even care.
Show threadDjDogFeb 20
@reesecommabill english style. I like it.