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Professional Lacrosse is coming to Toyota Park in Bridgeview. The Chicago Machine announced they will play their home games at Toyota Park. Although the 20,000 seat stadium was built as the home of the Chicago Fire, it is also an excellent facility for concerts and sports other than soccer.
The Machine played their inaugural season at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. John H.
Meister, the Machine's President, is excited about the move as it will bring fans closer to the game. He said, "The stadium is designed to allow our fans to sit right behind the players – no track between – which will bring them much closer to the action. The move from a small college campus to Toyota Park is reflective of the growth of the lacrosse community in Chicagoland and provides us a home we can grow into."
The Chicago Machine joined Major League Lacrosse (MLL) last season along with four other expansion teams. The front office hopes a change of venue and the hiring of new coach Lelan Rogers will help the team earn its first franchise victory in 2007. The team went 0-12 in their inaugural season, the only team in the league to go winless. On May 19, the Machine will host their first home game at Toyota Park.
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Chicago Machine? Is that some nod to Daley's administration?
There's also the National Lacrosse League team in Hoffman Estates, Chicago Shamrox.
Boy, we gonna get our lacrosse on now!
I hope their uniforms are better than the ones in that ShamroxxxXx!! post.
And I do think it's hilarious they name themselves after something so negative in this town. Like when they named the "Miami Heat".
Whatever happened to naming teams after birds?
NSH, I think they just ran out of birds. When they named the "Atlanta Thrashers", people were mad because a thrasher is a small, meek songbird that happens to be the state bird of Georgia. Hardly an imposing name for a sport as rough as hockey.
But I agree, singular names are the worst. We should embrace our sinister past and just go with "The Gangsters" or "The Chicago Typewriters" as an allusion to the tommy gun.
All that I will say is "Good Luck". I'm not sure this city is ready for two teams, let alone one!
Lacrosse always struck me as an elitist East Coast prep school sport. Sure it's rough and tumble and requires you to be in great shape, but I've never heard of it to be a huge deal outside of the northeast. Just look at this MLL: 60% of the teams are in the Boston-Washington corridor. And the indoor league has 5 out of 12 in the Northeast.
Maybe here in the midwest we need to look into a freestyle wrestling or cornhole league. THOSE will draw in the crowds...