{"id":11189,"date":"2012-04-17T22:54:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T02:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=11189"},"modified":"2012-05-09T21:43:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T01:43:55","slug":"revs-at-bottom-of-attendance-table-in-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=11189","title":{"rendered":"Revs at Bottom of Attendance Table in &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_133\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=133\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133\" data-attachment-id=\"133\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=133\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fans.jpg?fit=500%2C230\" data-orig-size=\"500,230\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 20D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1217970591&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fans\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fans.jpg?fit=300%2C138\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fans.jpg?fit=500%2C230\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133\" title=\"fans\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fans.jpg?resize=460%2C230\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"230\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Although the fans in The Fort have never wavered in their support for the Revolution, the early-season attendance figures at Gillette Stadium don&#39;t look promising. (Photo: Art Donahue\/artdonahue.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although the Revolution\u00a0may be playing inspired soccer this season, one thing that hasn&#8217;t looked good\u00a0in 2012\u00a0is the team&#8217;s home attendance record.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/article\/46368\/mls-hits-1-million-in-week-6.html\">a report from Soccer America<\/a>, the Revolution currently sit at the bottom of the league&#8217;s attendance table, with\u00a0an average attendance of 11,657\u00a0<del>10,389<\/del>\u00a0through its first two home games. Last year, the Revolution averaged 13,222 fans per game.<\/p>\n<p>The 11,657\u00a0average is well below the league average of 19,490 through the first six weeks of the season. Although cold, early-spring\u00a0temperatures have often been blamed for\u00a0low, early-season\u00a0attendance figures in the past, both of the Revolution&#8217;s home games have kicked off\u00a0with the thermometer registering 55 degrees or above.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Montreal Impact are experiencing the expected expansion bump in its first two games, with an average of 41,016 fans to lead the league in average attendance. Rounding out the top three is Seattle (38,549) and Los Angeles (22,233).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Revolution\u00a0may be playing inspired soccer this season, one thing that hasn&#8217;t looked good\u00a0in 2012\u00a0is the team&#8217;s home attendance record. According to a report from Soccer America, the Revolution currently sit at the bottom of the league&#8217;s attendance table, with\u00a0an average attendance of 11,657\u00a010,389\u00a0through its first two home games. Last year, the Revolution averaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11189"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11774,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions\/11774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}