Hurray for the SF spirit!
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I don't do sports, but this was nice to see and reflects the diversity of the San Francisco/Bay Area. Oracle Park is easily accessed by various modes of public transportation, unlike venues like Levi Stadium. And It's fun, family friendly, and hopefully affordable for its fan base, which would seem to be a lot of ordinary people.
Local women’s soccer team Bay Football Club played its first game at Oracle Park Saturday against Washington Spirit. Despite the team’s loss of 2-3, the game drew the most attendees in the history of US professional women’s sports, prompting discussions of moving to SF.
As the Chronicle reports, the excitement among fans at Saturday’s game was palpable. The game drew a record-breaking 40,091 attendees, which was triple the size of Bay FC’s usual draw of around 13,400 fans, as the Chronicle notes. The team’s home stadium, San Jose’s PayPal Park, has a capacity of 18,000.
“It’s not hard to absolutely fall in love with San Francisco, but I also think that it’s just a wonderful place. I think the diversity of the population speaks to football, they understand the game and they’ve loved and supported it, just as our other communities have in Northern California,” Bay FC co-founder and retired soccer champion Brandi Chastain told the Chronicle. “But I believe that to be true of most of Northern California.”
Bay FC Soccer Game Draws Record-Breaking Crowd to Oracle Park Saturday
Greg