The crowd at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, like the fans of most sports in most cities, waxes and wanes with the success or failure of the team. Even the mightiest teams will sometimes have below average crowds: check the noise levels, or lack thereof, at a Lakers game, or at Chelsea. In a nascent sport like soccer in America, some crowds have been embarrassingly small and silent, such as Dallas or New England in a bad year, while others, particularly MLS 2.0 and 3.0 expansion teams like Seattle and Orlando, sell out big arenas and make a lot of noise.
The 12th Man
