The number one best reason MLS is returning to San Jose
By: Melissa | November 10th, 2007Okay, I’m going to avoid the elephant in the room (will he or won’t he go back to San Jose?) for just a little bit longer to bring you my absolute favorite bit of news so far regarding San Ho expansion. This past Tuesday, the city council voted to extend negotiations with owner Lew Wolff to build the Quake’s SSS. This pretty much means everyone is still on board with his proposal, things will likely continue to move along smoothly, and soon enough there will be a cool new fancypants stadium to go along with our cool new sexy jerseys. The proposal calls for the SSS to be built on land previously occupied by the defense contractor, FMC. FMC is the company that built the Bradley Tank (among other things) for use during the first Gulf War. Now, I may be letting my own political beliefs seep into this soccer blog, but I can’t help but think how awesome it is that land formerly owned by a defense contractor will probably be converted into a soccer stadium. In fact, I honestly can’t think of a better way purge whatever bad ju-ju still lives in that area (according to a presentation given at that council meeting, FMC caused extensive environmental damage to that site) than to clean it up a bit, create a home base for Quakes operations, likely build sizable a youth academy, and for the rest of us have a spot to hold kick-ass tailgate parties. Make fútbol not war is what I’m sayin’ so thank you Earthquakes!
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Welcome!:D
Didn’t the Denver stadium have a story like that? I vaguely remember something about it being built on reclaimed Rocky Mountain Arsenal land (I’m a vague Rapids fan, as I grew up there, until the Seattle team gets up and running). I think that’s an awesome way to exorcise the demons of the areal…
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It’s actually a lot more personal for me because I (for some ridiculous reason) got an internship at FMC right out of high school. So I actually saw the tanks, rode in one, and saw this “environmental damage” first-hand in the form of an unregistered reservoir in the middle of their campus. Also, this was the first time in my life I experienced soul sucking cubicle hell life and I was turned off from it immediately. The people that worked there were depressing and if it wasn’t for whatever program I was a part of, I would’ve been fired pretty quick.
For me, having the SSS there is like sweet sweet revenge.
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