'That's nonsense': Former Sounders announcer calls Seattle 'a bona fide soccer hotbed' despite reports of fewer World Cup visitors

'That's nonsense': Former Sounders announcer calls Seattle 'a bona fide soccer hotbed' despite reports of fewer World Cup visitors

Seattle is the only U.S. World Cup host city seeing fewer travelers flying in, according to Bloomberg. Online flight bookings for Seattle are down 21% from the same time last year, compared to New York, which saw a 7% increase, and Houston, which saw an 11% increase. But former Seattle Sounders announcer Ross Fletcher dismissed the numbers as “nonsense” on “The Jake and Spike Show” on KIRO Newsradio. “That’s just relative. That’s nonsense,” he s…