Tempers flare over NFL throwing kids out of soccer park

[Jville]

In less than two weeks, when the NFL moves in to transform Levi's Stadium and its surroundings for Super Bowl 50, Robertson and hundreds of youth soccer players must move out. The Santa Clara Youth Soccer Park will be turned into an enormous "media village," as workers begin yanking out fences, tearing out dugouts and plopping down wooden platforms for about 6,000 members of the media to work in the shadow of the stadium.

The displacement has the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League scrambling to find enough fields for the 250 games on its schedule over the next two months -- and has set off another bout of infighting on the City Council over just what the city promised when it agreed to turn over its coveted soccer park and other nearby property to the NFL to host to the big game.

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[Uncle Si]

Why are they struggling to find new fields when they've known about it for months?

 

[Seanhawk]

The NFL will occupy the soccer park from Jan. 4 to March 2, with the three weeks after the Super Bowl to be spent on cleaning up and repairing the field.

Let them have it three weeks early with the fields completely destroyed.

 

[hawknation2015]

They're going to destroy the only grass in that area that is any good.

But the soccer kids are mostly angry because Jed York is a liar and a penny-pinching scumbag:

Team revenue from ticket sales, sponsors, luxury suites and non-football events jumped 160 percent from the previous season, Forbes reported.

Yet CEO Jed York still won't live up to the commitment he made -- before the public vote on Levi's Stadium -- to replace the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League's tournament-class fields that the stadium is crowding out. York's corporation is walking away from its responsibility. Or, more likely, driving away in a convoy of Brinks Armored Vehicles.

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[JakeFromStateFarm]

Football is the name of the game. Out ur big boy pans on>

 

[Sports Hernia]

Football is the name of the game. Out ur big boy pans on>

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[Sac]

Football is the name of the game. Out ur big boy pans on>

Wonder if he bought .net account protection insurance????? 8)

His policy didn't cover modership.

 

[hawknation2015]

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[Sports Hernia]

Football is the name of the game. Out ur big boy pans on>

Wonder if he bought .net account protection insurance????? 8)

His policy didn't cover modership.

Sucks for him. 8)