Questioning The Timing Of The MLS Season
du Nord, March 14, 2007
A MLS question was posed to me by Dave Brett Wasser of Historic Soccer Videotapes. I thought it was a good question for the readership at large. There are many issues to consider here.I'm one of the many people who thinks that MLS would be a lot smarter to shift their season so that it starts 4-6 weeks earlier, and ends 4-6 weeks earlier.Just look at the sports calendar in America. October is the busiest month of the year! There is pro and college football, and the baseball playoffs. How can MLS compete with that? MLS suffers because people lose interest in soccer in October.On the other hand, March is perhaps the least busy month on the sports calendar. There is basketball and hockey, but that's it. People don't really pay much attention to pre-season baseball, so that isn't much competition.MLS should have started their season last week with games in each of the warm-weather cities. MLS Cup could then be in the last week of September at the latest.I want to know what you all think about this idea.