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Mr. Funny Pants posted:If I'm ever a billionaire, I'm going to buy the naming rights to Dodger Stadium, the Rose Bowl, and the Coliseum and change them to something horrible just to see what it will do to Bill Plaschke. Considering he ACTUALLY LIKES some of the teams that play in those places I don't think he can handle it. This is a quality tweet.
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"I'm still going to call it Staples" is one of the funniest moral stances I have ever heard we cannot let our arenas be named after some bullshit scam we must protect the proud traditional name of the office supply company that sells ink for $300 a cartridge
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Nov 19, 2021 14:11
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It sucks that the BangBros arena never happened.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:It sucks that the BangBros arena never happened. Tampa Bay Lightning should play at the Captain Stabbin Center
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Nov 19, 2021 15:01
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MourningView posted:"I'm still going to call it Staples" is one of the funniest moral stances I have ever heard "Why can't we have a traditional name like Wrigley? "
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Nov 19, 2021 22:30
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I'd bet anything that the Ricketts family sells naming rights to Wrigley within the next decade so it would be like Gallagher Park at Wrigley Field" there I'd absolutely nothing they won't do to make a buck.
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Nov 19, 2021 23:28
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R.D. Mangles posted:I'd bet anything that the Ricketts family sells naming rights to Wrigley within the next decade so it would be like Gallagher Park at Wrigley Field" there I'd absolutely nothing they won't do to make a buck. 100%, once the dust has settled on the Wrigleyville renovations and things have calmed down with the city and neighborhood. The only question is if they’ll default to Wrigley Field at TD Ameritrade Park for tax purposes.
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Niwrad posted:You can literally just keep calling it Staples. Comiskey has gone through a number of name changes and people still call it Comiskey or The Cell (after its old name US Cellular Field). It's been 17 years since Jacob's Field became Progressive Field and I still occasionally slip and call it Jacob's. Hell, I've been there on Progressive Insurance employee nights when Flo herself was there to sign autographs (the line was 100 yards long) and I still sometimes don't call it Progressive.
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Nov 20, 2021 05:40
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the idea of standing in line to get an autograph from flo the insurance mascot is unbearably grim
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R.D. Mangles posted:the idea of standing in line to get an autograph from flo the insurance mascot is unbearably grim That is the grimmest thing I've ever heard about Cleveland.
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R.D. Mangles posted:the idea of standing in line to get an autograph from flo the insurance mascot is unbearably grim
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MourningView posted:"I'm still going to call it Staples" is one of the funniest moral stances I have ever heard Yeah I don’t think Paul Lukas is going to green light “I still call it Staples” T-shirts like they have for dozens of other stadiums, because nostalgia for a corporate sponsor like that is…weird. I get that it’s become a Proper Noun that conjures up specific memories, but it’s not like the arenas and stadiums that were named after people or memorials instead of corporate sponsors. It’s odd it’s getting that treatment, because I don’t even know what you call it to be site-neutral. LA Live Arena? That said, I also have been a fan of sports that have had closer sponsorship ties for a long time and understand the argument that life was better when actual stores or legitimate products were the sponsorship instead of like crypto grifts, gambling, or worse.
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Nov 20, 2021 07:02
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I'm going to keep calling the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl the MPC Computers Bowl
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IT WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEEF O'BRADY'S BOWL TO ME!!!!!!!
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R.D. Mangles posted:IT WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEEF O'BRADY'S BOWL TO ME!!!!!!! Unironically yes to this. Tampa Bay's own lovely regional version of sports-bar sponsoring a bowl game absolutely nobody gives a poo poo about played in the worst stadium in MLB, this was a brand marriage made in heaven.
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harperdc posted:
Yeah, big faceless corporate sponsors are not good but still better than investment funds, crypto or gambling. I guess it's a reasonable line for a lot of people.
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tbf I still will call GR field The Cell or Comiskey occasionally. Names are hard things to break. It's not some moral stand, but also some names just like sound better and roll off the tongue better.
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I think putting the .com at the end of the name just makes it sound extra tacky. However if penisland.net were to ever get a stadium sponsorship I'd be perfectly okay with the full name being used.
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R.D. Mangles posted:IT WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEEF O'BRADY'S BOWL TO ME!!!!!!! Bad Boys Mowers Gasparilla Bowl!!
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Crazy Ted posted:It's frightening how popular she still is. For real good for her grabbing an infinite sized bag of money because I watched the bob odenkirk movie where she acts in it and she wasn't going to make it another way.
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Lockback posted:Yeah, big faceless corporate sponsors are not good but still better than investment funds, crypto or gambling. I guess it's a reasonable line for a lot of people. I'm pretty sure the wailing and gnashing of teeth would be much less if the Staples Center was becoming the Toyota Center, Target Center, or even like Bank of America Arena. (Reminder that the Great Western Forum was named after a bank as well, it was a sponsored name as well). this just feels like if one of the dot-com bubble companies around 2000 had enough money to go after an arena sponsorship and not just Super Bowl ads, except worse, because crypto is dumb as hell.
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harperdc posted:I'm pretty sure the wailing and gnashing of teeth would be much less if the Staples Center was becoming the Toyota Center, Target Center, or even like Bank of America Arena. (Reminder that the Great Western Forum was named after a bank as well, it was a sponsored name as well). bay area's always had issues with naming their stadiums dumbass poo poo but at least they had 20-30 years of non-tech boom poo poo to solidify most of their stadium names of boring names before they rebranded them its about as bad as renaming Candlestick "Monster Park" or Oakland Colosseum the "O.co" tbh
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Nov 20, 2021 12:09
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I will never stop calling the Vikings stadium the Metrodome 
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Cognac McCarthy posted:I will never stop calling the Vikings stadium the Metrodome The Dolphins stadium has gone through like a half dozen names in the last 25~ years but it’s still referred to as Joe Robbie Stadium pretty often.
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Nov 20, 2021 16:07
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The Superdome will forever be the Superdome, no matter the sponsor.
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Nov 20, 2021 16:14
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I don't know anyone who says Rogers Centre instead of Skydome It's always Skydome or The Dome
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R.D. Mangles posted:I'd bet anything that the Ricketts family sells naming rights to Wrigley within the next decade so it would be like Gallagher Park at Wrigley Field" there I'd absolutely nothing they won't do to make a buck. My point was that Wrigley was the original corporate stadium name. I know it was named for the owner, but it was a huge brand name, too.
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fartknocker posted:The Dolphins stadium has gone through like a half dozen names in the last 25~ years but it’s still referred to as Joe Robbie Stadium pretty often. I apparently forgot just 'Dolphins Stadium' and I don't remember it being called Sun Life Stadium although I don't live in Miami anymore so who knows
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yeah off the top of my head, Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park/Stadium, Landshark Stadium, Hard Rock The Dolphins Stadium name has come a few times, usually when they didn’t have a corporate sponsor. The Landshark/Sun Life thing was memorable in 2009 because not only was Landshark a dumb name and pretty widely mocked, but almost every time it was mentioned, it was also mentioned that their name rights were basically just for the 2009 regular season and would expire just before the stadium would be hosting Super Bowl XLIV in February 2010. So it stops having that name and gets rebranded yet again as Sun Life (Nobody had a clue who they were either) a few weeks before the Super Bowl because Landshark couldn’t afford the rights for the Super Bowl.
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Nov 20, 2021 20:18
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The Milwaukee Brewers will never not play home games at Miller Park.
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I've always liked the KC stadiums. Kauffman for the Royals who was the founder of the team and Arrowhead for the Chiefs. Although I guess Arrowhead is Geha field or some poo poo now, don't even know what that is.
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Crazy Ted posted:It's frightening how popular she still is. I’d do it if she would sign my Tom Goes to the Mayor dvds.
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fartknocker posted:The Dolphins stadium has gone through like a half dozen names in the last 25~ years but it’s still referred to as Joe Robbie Stadium pretty often.
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I think my favorite new stadium naming idea has got to be CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA where they run air conditioners non stop to maintain a manufactured ice surface.
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Heinz Field, PNC Park, PPG Paints Arena, Kraft-Heinz, PNC, and PPG are all in a mile wide circle. At least they're local companies. Plus PNC and PPG have Pittsburgh right in the name. And Heinz's offices are in PPG Place. I wish they'd kept the switchboard ladies on Mad Men, wherein Flo was one.
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Crazy Ted posted:It's frightening how popular she still is. Wait people actually like Flo? I thought the whole 'appeal' of those ads was that Flo and her team are all annoying, which makes people remember the commercials.
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https://twitter.com/cecilhurt/status/1463281482265419780?s=21 Really, really sad news if you follow CFB at all. Cecil was an amazing, hilarious writer but more importantly the kind of man who wouldn’t think twice about giving you the shirt off his back, and went out of his way to help younger journalists.
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Nov 24, 2021 03:59
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He was a fantastic writer, that’s a shame
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https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1463562653847142404?s=21 https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1463563124070653958?s=21 Lmao Cecil ruled E: ahahaha https://twitter.com/38godfrey/status/1463563824620052499?s=21 DJExile fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Nov 24, 2021 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:It sucks that the BangBros arena never happened. Never forget when the restaurant named Pink Taco tried to buy the naming rights for what became University of Phoenix Stadium (now State Farm Stadium). Schremp Howard posted:I’d do it if she would sign my Tom Goes to the Mayor dvds. Rats off to ya!
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