This Tuesday, the sole remaining tenant at RFK Stadium – DC United – opens its home season against Jamaica’s Harbour View FC in a CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal match. I’ll be there to see it all.
One of the best aspects of footy games at RFK Stadium is watching the two booster clubs – the Screaming Eagles and Barra Brava – raise a ruckus over in the floating seats on the north side of the pitch. These seats can be moved, depending on the kind of event taking place (handy when RFK hosted football and baseball games, irrelevant now that the Nats have their own, new ballpark), and this mobility makes them particularly springy. Add in the synchronized jumping of hundreds of loud, sometimes drunken fans, and the whole section bounces. It’s fun to watch from across the way.
Add to that the flag, smoke bombs, streamers and chants, and it’s almost like being in a minor league Premiership game. Okay, perhaps not, but it’s DC’s most successful sports franchise of the past 20 years.
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