U.S. Open Cup Final: With 30,000 Tickets Already Sold, Sounders Open Hawks Nest
by Jeremiah Oshan on Sep 28, 2011 6:07 PM PDT
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With 30,000 tickets already sold, the Seattle Sounders announced on Wednesday that they will open the Hawks Nest for the U.S. Open Cup final on Oct. 4. It will be the first time the Sounders will have sold tickets in that portion of the north end for a competitive match. Tickets will sell for $17.
The Hawks Nest has the stadium's only bleacher-style seating and fits about 3,000 fans. The Sounders have elected to open those seats rather than sell tickets in the third deck, Sounders general manager Adrian Hanauer told Sounder at Heart. In the original seating configuration, the Sounders fit 32,400 people into the stadium without opening the third level.
Fans have been clamoring for the Sounders to open the Hawks Nest almost ever since the Sounders started playing at CenturyLink Field. For the most part, the team has resisted opening those seats, partly because of the visible advertising they sold to XBox as part of their sponsorship agreement.
The Sounders have previously said they will open as many seats as demand warrants, but it will likely take another 5,000 pre-sales before the team seriously considers opening the third deck.
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I hear noise
those bleachers can get some serious volume behind them
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Also, I know that the North End Faithful sit just below
but it needs a soccer specific name.
Yes, I’ve objected to that before, but in this case calling it the Hawk’s Nest when there are no Hawks involved is silly.
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It's the Coconut Shrine.
I met a possum.
by s0merand0mdude on Sep 28, 2011 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions
the dorsal fin
or is that too fishy?
How about The Middle Finger
The North Parking Lot Redevelopment End
I miss *REAL* Four Loko
by B-Lot tailgater on Sep 29, 2011 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Some ideas
The bow – as in the bow of a yacht. It is kind of pointy in shape.
The cheap seats – if they ever open these up permanently, they’ll likely be cheaper than anything else in the lower bowl
The sellout zone – Multiple nuances to this one. Sellout because of the adverts. Sellout crowds. Sellout/plastic fans. etc.
Kasey’s end or Keller’s end – this is his last season. How about naming it in honor of him.
The Empire end – Empire field is being dismantled. It’s all aluminum. We could play like we stole a piece of it.
The Open Cup end – Since the USOC final is the first competetive match it’ll be open for.
Lamar’s end – similar to “Open Cup end” Also a bit pretentious as the USOC is really just “our cup” since we keep winning it.
King end or King’s end – after King street on that side of the stadium
That’s all I can think of right now.
Or just simply the Pews
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by Dave Clark on Sep 28, 2011 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions 8 recs
The Choir Loft
From where they shall sing hymns of praise and shouts of GOALS!! CLF 1:Sec 147-149
by beejay76 on Sep 28, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I made an account
just to say I really like “The Pews”
#ChurchOfFucito
by Eliberation on Sep 29, 2011 7:55 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
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by Jeremiah Oshan on Sep 28, 2011 9:00 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
for the #churchoffucito, #saintrosales, or the #cultofthehoneybadger
by Brougham Hooligan on Sep 28, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmmmm
I was thinking the Sound Stands…maybe Sound Grounds, yeah…I like the Sound Grounds
Make It Matter
Sound Pound?
Nahhh that’s dumb…we aren’t dogs, we are fire-breathing Pacific Northwesterns with throats of steel born of Rain and Misery which hardens our hearts and makes us cold like our weather….unless you live on the other side of the Cascades….
Sorry For that rant, I got carried away in fandom
Make It Matter
Hawk's Nest
We could certainly start calling it something new. The Pod. The Prow. The Pews. All sorts of Sounder related nicknames. But for the most part, people will think of it as the Hawk’s Nest. That’s what it’s called. And changing the name of an established place is difficult enough when everyone is on board. When a majority of people are still going to call it something else, it’s next to impossible..
But looking for a name for the north stands (which is what I would call it) simply isn’t in the Sounder’s best interest.
The Seahawks named that area the Hawk’s Nest because they were trying to manufacture a supporter’s section. Something the Kingdome never had. It was an expressed salute to the Dawg Pound in Cleveland.
Except the Sounders already have that. The Brougham End we call it. It’s great. It’s known. Creating a second such area only serves to dilute what we’ve created on the south side.
by Jack Brando on Sep 29, 2011 9:12 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
A manufactured supporters section?
It isn’t that at all. It is like all cheaper seats in the NFL a mass of white noise.
I’m also confused how having a name for another area dilutes the Brougham End? Do the North End Faithful dilute the ECS?
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Absolutely manufactured
They specifically built the Hawks’ Nest with cheaper aluminum bleachers in the hopes that it would become something akin to Cleveland’s Dawg Pound. That’s what they said at the time. They wanted a place for the crazy fans to go crazy.
http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2010/11/noisy_qwest_field_is_exactly_t.html
“When they surveyed Cleveland Browns Stadium, they noticed the team planned to keep the Dawg Pound from the old Municipal Stadium. The Seahawks decided to do something similar for their rowdy fans: The Hawk’s Nest.”
And it’s not at all fair to call it simply a mass of white noise. It’s an intelligently executed mass of white noise that is proven to have a positive impact on the field. The cacophony of singing and chanting coming out of the BE occurs regardless of which goalie is trying to frantically organize his back line in front of them. But that’s neither here nor there. The point is, the Hawks’ Nest is clearly a place the team hoped would put the hardcore fans up on a pedestal for the rest of the stadium to follow. Whether it has been successful in that is open to discussion.
And certainly, I don’t know that creating a Sounder specific name for the Nest will dilute the Brougham End, but I can’t think of a stadium that has two distinct hardcore sections.
Because at the end of the day, there are only so many ultra hardcore fans. You generally need to concentrate them in one area to get the most out of them. Suppose we create this really awesome sounding supporters area (we’ll call it the Pews for the sake of argument) and everyone bows and sings Gregorian chants and shouts out “Can I Get An Amen?” Great. Whose sitting there? Whose willing to put on a rave green choir robe and sing Hallelujah? I’ll tell you who. The guys on the other side of the stadium.
Of course people, including this blog, can call it whatever they want. But if you intend on it being anything other than a name for a part of the stadium, it all but necessarily dilutes the concentrated insanity of the Brougham End.
by Jack Brando on Sep 29, 2011 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
not about having a hardcore section
It’s about what we choose to call a group of distinct seats.
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by Jeremiah Oshan on Sep 29, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
You do realize that there are many stadiums in England where each side has a name?
Some even have corners with different names than either side next to them.
I never suggested that it become a supporters section. Until the Brougham End is actually filled with supporters, rather than just the lower half of three sections plus the lower 20% of a 4th, there is no need for another Supporters Section.
I would expect that it would be a white noise cheap seats for major events. There is no indication that it will be open for all home games next season.
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If you think it's futile
that’s fine. But it’s not going to dilute anything. There wouldn’t and won’t be any harm in a bunch of Sounders fans walking around calling it the Pews or the Mast or whatever and everyone else going ‘what are you talking about’? Plus it’d be fun. And isn’t that why you go to games?
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I say anyone who brings one into the stadium gets relagated to the Pews.
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Double names
Maybe a little hypocritical from someone that calls the CLink Seahawks stadium on Sunday, after calling it Sounders Stadium on Saturday…..but having two names seems a little much for me.
Plus, many of us LOVE the Hawk’s Nest name. No offense, I wouldn’t like my names even close to the name suggested, but the name needs to be WAY cooler than the names on this site to get it to catch on.
Just my $0.02 worth
by Charles J on Sep 29, 2011 11:33 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
how about we just use it here then?
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by Jeremiah Oshan on Sep 29, 2011 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'll be happy to
serenade the ‘Pews’ with several renditions of the Sounders theme after all the goals we score on Tuesday. Amen.
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