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[SoccerPrime]

Originally Posted by AreliusII

"Real Salt Lake is the first team in Major League Soccer to broadcast all games live on Network Television, not just on cable."

Can someone help me be sure I understand this? "Network television" means....?

What it really means is that non-Utahns like myself that must rely on Direct Kick to watch all the MLS matches will have great, completely biased RSL reporting and commentary during the matches.

GO REAL!
(Nice report Chris and Neil, thanks for going!)

[SoccerPrime]

Originally Posted by Czar Jake

It will be fun for people like SoccerPrime who haven't seen this at all to log on tomorrow morning and see 372 New Posts

It was actually 98 new posts. :D

[Jose Luis Luviano]

Yes, MLS players are almost all good citizens.

But us Old Timers remember Roy Lassiter, the Gori/Diaz Arce Incident. And don't get me started on Luis Hernandez...........

Great work, Neil!

In case anyone cares, the radio station would be "Ray-Kwair-dose".

It's Spanish for "Elevator Music".

I wonder how they account for us Cheap Bastiges who buy Mini Plans?

I can't imagine that I'm the only RSL fan who can't swing a Kitchen Pass for all home games.

Are Miniplans included in the 3100 or do they count as some fraction of a full season ticket?

[Dadof3]

One would expect that the mini-plan would count as 1/2 of a season tic.

[AreliusII]

Reports: SLC funding plan in the works
By Jason Halpin / MLSnet.com Staff

Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will reportedly announce Thursday morning a working agreement with Real Salt Lake and Major League Soccer to develop a landmark way to subsidize a soccer-specific stadium for the team.
Huntsman called a press conference for 8:30 a.m. MT Thursday at the Governor's Mansion in Salt Lake City, with RSL Owner David W. Checketts, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber and Utah state Sen. Curtis Bramble set to join him. Huntsman is expected to announce plans to create a unique public-private funding partnership for the stadium, a plan that Bramble told the Deseret Morning News is "new and heretofore untried."

Bramble and the Utah legislature recently laid down a significant roadblock to an RSL stadium by passing a bill that would prevent Utah cities from using state Redevelopment Agency funds to subsidize sports stadiums.

While land costs in Murray, Utah -- one of two leading candidates to be the home of RSL -- are low enough to allow the city to fund a stadium without RDA money, the land on which the other candidate, Salt Lake City, would build the stadium would cost an estimated $20 million. That money would have to come from the RDA. Bramble, the sponsor of the bill, contends that using RDA money for stadiums diverts funds away from schools.

Both the Morning News and The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Huntsman is not expected to veto Bramble's bill. Instead, the governor reportedly plans to search for a new avenue to fund the stadium in partnership with RSL, one that would allow Salt Lake City to remain in the running for the stadium.

"We have an opportunity to do something different here, create a special mechanism that might even become the model for [funding] future sports teams," Garber told the Tribune.

The proposed stadium is estimated to cost a total of $60 million. Checketts has said he and the club will pay for half of that with private funds, with public money expected to cover the remainder.

Neither RSL nor MLS had an official comment on Huntsman's impending announcement Thursday morning.

[Rover]

Originally Posted by SoccerPrime

What it really means is that non-Utahns like myself that must rely on Direct Kick to watch all the MLS matches will have great, completely biased RSL reporting and commentary during the matches.

YES!

Direct Kick is our lifeline here in non-Utahland.