NFT: See a sold out Rent in all its glory.

[Palatine]

Today 3PM on TNT. USMNT versus Germany.

 

[ZooCougar]

Maybe the first time this year that the home team wins in the Rent.

 

[Palatine]

Maybe the first time this year that the home team wins in the Rent.

You get points for being relentless.

 

[ZooCougar]

You get points for being relentless.

I find it to be funny in a dark sort of way.

 

[NowInStorrs]

I don't see any NFTs in here.

 

[Waquoit]

I'm hoping the pitch looks good. It looked good for the last football game.

 

[KryHavok]

I find it to be funny in a dark sort of way.

The team is 1-5 instead of 3-3 (and 4-2 was sorta possible)...self deprecating humor is a great medicine for our woes.

Best of luck to the USMNT!

 

[Chin Diesel]

Bad look for UConn football and athletic program looking for a P4 invite.

CT residents and NE residents will come out to support an exhibition soccer match but won't do the same for State U seven Saturdays in the fall.

Demonstrates there's a population interested in sports they have money in their pockets. Just not for UConn football.

 

[ZooCougar]

Bad look for UConn football and athletic program looking for a P4 invite.

CT residents and NE residents will come out to support an exhibition soccer match but won't do the same for State U seven Saturdays in the fall.

Demonstrates there's a population interested in sports they have money in their pockets. Just not for UConn football.

Stop.

First off nobody will even realize this game is happening. It’s a friendly which is like a pretend game.

Secondly they only play here once in a blue moon and the USMNT is actually kind of successful and has some star power. So there is some pent up demand. It’s also kind of sexy opponent it’s not like they are playing Belarus.

 

[businesslawyer]

Bad look for UConn football and athletic program looking for a P4 invite.

CT residents and NE residents will come out to support an exhibition soccer match but won't do the same for State U seven Saturdays in the fall.

Demonstrates there's a population interested in sports they have money in their pockets. Just not for UConn football.

Please stop. The number of folks in the northeast who will come out for a once in however many years opportunity to watch the USMNT play a European powerhouse in person is so unbelievably irrelevant to our attendance for a football team that has been lousy for what seems like forever in a market where people can easily drive to NFL games that one can't possibly be stupid enough to think it is.

So since it's not possible one could be that stupid, what's your real point? How about you just make it without insulting everyone's intelligence?

 

[Chin Diesel]

Stop.

First off nobody will even realize this game is happening. It’s a friendly which is like a pretend game.

Secondly they only play here once in a blue moon and the USMNT is actually kind of successful and has some star power. So there is some pent up demand. It’s also kind of sexy opponent it’s not like they are playing Belarus.

Please stop. The number of folks in the northeast who will come out for a once in however many years opportunity to watch the USMNT play a European powerhouse in person is so unbelievably irrelevant to our attendance for a football team that has been lousy for what seems like forever in a market where people can easily drive to NFL games that one can't possibly be stupid enough to think it is.

So since it's not possible one could be that stupid, what's your real point? How about you just make it without insulting everyone's intelligence?

Thank you both for unintentionally (on your part) of demonstrating my point.

People are showing up to a meaningless pretend game and not showing up based on supporting the "home" team but rather the opponent.

Because, well, scarcity.

 

[ZooCougar]

Thank you both for unintentionally (on your part) of demonstrating my point.

People are showing up to a meaningless pretend game and not showing up based on supporting the "home" team but rather the opponent.

Because, well, scarcity.

This soccer game does not make your butt look fat. Sorry. You have a very bad take.

 

[ZooCougar]

Please stop. The number of folks in the northeast who will come out for a once in however many years opportunity to watch the USMNT play a European powerhouse in person is so unbelievably irrelevant to our attendance for a football team that has been lousy for what seems like forever in a market where people can easily drive to NFL games that one can't possibly be stupid enough to think it is.

So since it's not possible one could be that stupid, what's your real point? How about you just make it without insulting everyone's intelligence?

The other thing is. This game would probably sell out wherever it was played.

And tons of people in attendance won’t even be from CT.

And there really is not much overlap in UConn football fans and USMNT fans.

 

[giddyup]

Please stop. The number of folks in the northeast who will come out for a once in however many years opportunity to watch the USMNT play a European powerhouse in person is so unbelievably irrelevant to our attendance for a football team that has been lousy for what seems like forever in a market where people can easily drive to NFL games that one can't possibly be stupid enough to think it is.

So since it's not possible one could be that stupid, what's your real point? How about you just make it without insulting everyone's intelligence?

I hope they don’t tear up the field.

 

[Kolumbo]

I'll bet the majority are from out of state all around the Northeast. Prime opportunity for Oktoberfest brews and bratwurst.

 

[superjohn]

Bad look for UConn football and athletic program looking for a P4 invite.

CT residents and NE residents will come out to support an exhibition soccer match but won't do the same for State U seven Saturdays in the fall.

Demonstrates there's a population interested in sports they have money in their pockets. Just not for UConn football.

Most states don't support terrible programs, there's really nothing unique about CT in that way.

 

[businesslawyer]

The other thing is. This game would probably sell out wherever it was played.

And tons of people in attendance won’t even be from CT.

And there really is not much overlap in UConn football fans and USMNT fans.

It's beyond stupid. It would be like questioning whether USC should be in the P-2 based on Taylor Swift selling more tickets for the Rose Bowl than a USC team in a bad year.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

It's beyond stupid. It would be like questioning whether USC should be in the P-2 based on Taylor Swift selling more tickets for the Rose Bowl than a USC team in a bad year.

Is that before or after Travis Kelce?

 

[Buffett10]

Maybe the first time this year that the home team wins in the Rent.

No chance

 

[ZooCougar]

It's beyond stupid. It would be like questioning whether USC should be in the P-2 based on Taylor Swift selling more tickets for the Rose Bowl than a USC team in a bad year.

He lives in Floriduh sooo…

 

[ZooCougar]

No chance

Not really. It’s a friendly. We’ve beaten Germany in Germany during a friendly. Plus they are not that good.

 

[Waquoit]

That take is so bad I'm thinking that somebody hacked Chin's account. It sounds like Deepster.

 

[Sky ball]

I'm hoping the pitch looks good. It looked good for the last football game.

What's a Pitch? I thought it was Soccer not baseball? Pitch at UConn Football?

 

[Sky ball]

I hope they don’t tear up the field.

You mean the Pitch. I just learned that.

 

[huskyjawz]

Any yarders at the game? Just curious as to how the Rent does when it's crowded.