NCAA site sponsorships: What happens if you don't pay up?
Posted by billhoward
NCAA site sponsorships: What happens if you don't pay up?
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: May 26, 2009 12:10PM
Notice the intriguing M-shaped NCAA sign in Gillette Stadium covering up what appears to be a golden arch. Could it be someone wasn't tithing the proper sponsorship money? Maybe there's a more benign explanation.
Re: NCAA site sponsorships: What happens if you don't pay up?
Posted by: ugarte (---.z75-46-65.customer.algx.net)
Date: May 26, 2009 12:15PM
It also looks like a doorway.
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Re: NCAA site sponsorships: What happens if you don't pay up?
Posted by: nyc94 (---.cable.mindspring.com)
Date: May 26, 2009 12:28PM
Re: NCAA site sponsorships: What happens if you don't pay up?
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: May 26, 2009 12:33PM
Thanks for that photo. I was thinking also about the exposed upper decks at Gillette Stadium: It's goregous in May when everyone is wearing halter tops and T-shirts, a different story in December when the winter winds blow in.
Re: NCAA site sponsorships: What happens if you don't pay up?
Posted by: Jordan 04 (155.72.24.---)
Date: May 26, 2009 12:51PM
Really? The first thought here was that McDonalds is an NCAA sponsor and was potential bouncing checks, which resulted in the punishment of covering their logo with a white sheet?
How about: McDonald's isn't a sponsor of the NCAA?
billhoward
Maybe there's a more benign explanation.
How about: McDonald's isn't a sponsor of the NCAA?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/26/2009 12:52PM by Jordan 04.
Re: NCAA site sponsorships: What happens if you don't pay up?
Posted by: Jacob '06 (---.nycmny.east.verizon.net)
Date: May 26, 2009 12:51PM
I imagine it is just an ad that is normally in Gilette, but that wasn't allowed up for the NCAAs. This always happens with them covering the board ads in the hockey regionals and frozen four.
Re: NCAA site sponsorships: What happens if you don't pay up?
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: May 26, 2009 01:47PM
Jordan 04
Really? The first thought here was that McDonalds is an NCAA sponsor and was potential bouncing checks, which resulted in the punishment of covering their logo with a white sheet?
billhoward
Maybe there's a more benign explanation.
How about: McDonald's isn't a sponsor of the NCAA?
There maust be delicate back-and-forths: Somebody buys sponsor/signage rights to the stadium and the contract says, "Must be visible for all games." Then along comes the NCAA or Springsteen or the Monster Truck Show and they have a conflicting fast food sponsor or a rule that says no visible signage bigger than 10 x 10 feet unless there's a separate deal with us.
There was no white tarp over "Gillette Stadium" perhaps because - Lord, forgive me; I am weak - Syracuse won by a close shave.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/26/2009 01:51PM by billhoward.
Re: NCAA site sponsorships: What happens if you don't pay up?
Posted by: Chris '03 (---.60.172.18.ded.snet.net)
Date: May 26, 2009 01:51PM
The funny thing is that the McDonald's itself was open all weekend. The signage was just covered throughout the stadium.
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