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Let's just return to indoor soccer

I’ll say this as somebody who has sat through a couple RSL blizzards. I’m only mad that I won’t have any summer sport to follow. Plus the 100 deg summer games SUCK. I live in Utah. I can deal with the snow. Hell the LAFC snow game 2 years ago was an amazing win, 3-0 #RSL

the obvious answer to "its too cold for fans" is to build a stadium with a tiered race track around it so fans can run around and warm up while watching the game like one of those ant death spirals

But also some of the “cold-weather cities” are extremely warm in the summer. I’ve always seen St Louis lumped in with the cold cities but I do remember Chiellini complaining about the hot weather there and Bürki being highly in favour of switching calendars bc summer games are too hot

It's all relative. People in Nashville will not turn out in great numbers with temps in 40s, as local understanding of 'too cold' will prevail. And the stubborn refusal to play cold weather matches in the afternoon will also hurt attendance

You’re not wrong, but I do think it will be ~2 games that are legit very cold for ~5 teams and if you schedule them as day time kickoffs you can probably get lucky that it will end up being mostly a non issue. A lot depends how late into Dec they go and how early Feb they start.

There has been at least one leak that suggests the weekend before the Super Bowl as a start weekend. So that doesn't quite do it. And there's still November and December to deal with.

This lines up with the results from all the surveys of the players indicating that they *much* preferred a fall/winter/spring schedule. Running 90 minutes in a sauna isn't fun.