This Date in Sidekicks History April 10

Birthdays

• 1962: Mark Evans
• 1972: Jose Alvarado

Record Book

• 1988:
  • The Sidekicks set a club record for most wins at home during the regular season with 22.
    • The previous record was 16, set during the 1985-86 season.
• The Sidekicks also set an Regular Season Attendance record, averaging 9,878 over 28 home games.
  • The previous record was during the 1986-87 season, when an average of 8,637 fans showed up for each of the 26 home games.

• 2004: Only 3,238 fans attended the MISL Quarterfinal match on this date.
  • That was the smallest crowd ever to watch a Sidekicks home playoff match.
    • It was also the 2nd lowest attended playoff game ever in Sidekicks history.

Overheard

• 1992:

The team that was responsible for making Dallas a Championship city again opens their bid to do it again on Tuesday night...

--Cathy Harasta, sports columnist for the Dallas Morning News, in a piece printed on this date in 1992, about the upcoming playoffs. The headline of the column read: "Papeleo to miss playoffs, but soccer fans shouldn't."

 

• 2004:

  I thought the Arena Football game was next door.

  --Sidekicks radio announcer Pete Stein on the rough play the during the match on this date.

Tire Kicking

• 1991: Richard Rainwater, then an investor in the Texas Rangers baseball organization, expressed interest in purchasing the Sidekicks and reviving the franchise which previous owner Phill Cobb ceased operations of at the end of the 1990-91 season.

Playoff Games

• 2004: MISL Quarterfinal:at Sidekicks 7 Cleveland Force 4
  • Dallas wins one game playoff.

Regular Season Games

• 1987: at Tacoma Stars 3 Sidekicks 1
• 1988: at Sidekicks 4 Minnesota Strikers 2