More corporate stadium names

[Willy '06]

What about Wrigley Field? What sell outs.

[nyc94]

[quote Willy '06]What about Wrigley Field? What sell outs.[/quote]

Technically, Wrigley Field is named for William Wrigley, Jr. who was the team owner when the stadium was renamed in 1926 from Cubs Field.

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/chc/ballpark/index.jsp

[Beeeej]

I think he was joking.

[nyc94]

[quote Beeeej]I think he was joking.[/quote]

I considered that but you never know.  If my trivia is correct, Anheuser Busch wanted to rename Sportsman's Park as Budweiser Park (or Stadium) in 1953 and the league said no.  They settled on Busch Stadium.

[KeithK]

[quote nyc94][quote Beeeej]I think he was joking.[/quote]

I considered that but you never know.  If my trivia is correct, Anheuser Busch wanted to rename Sportsman's Park as Budweiser Park (or Stadium) in 1953 and the league said no.  They settled on Busch Stadium.[/quote]...and then promptly introduced Busch beer in order to get the brand name tie in.  Still, Busch Stadium sounds better than Budwieser Stadium/Park and you can plausibly forget that it's a product name.

[nyc94]

[quote KeithK][quote nyc94][quote Beeeej]I think he was joking.[/quote]

I considered that but you never know.  If my trivia is correct, Anheuser Busch wanted to rename Sportsman's Park as Budweiser Park (or Stadium) in 1953 and the league said no.  They settled on Busch Stadium.[/quote]...and then promptly introduced Busch beer in order to get the brand name tie in.  Still, Busch Stadium sounds better than Budwieser Stadium/Park and you can plausibly forget that it's a product name.[/quote]

And I'm less bothered by the Busch Beer tie in because the company owned the team.  If Citibank wants to buy the Mets I wouldn't care what they called the stadium - or the team.  We could move towards the Japanese practice of naming the teams for the owners rather than the cities.

[Liz '05]

Like the Red Bulls?

[billhoward]

Japanese ball parks have kneepad-wearing beer girls (their term) from competing breweries who strap mini-kegs to their backs and come right to your aisle. It's not exactly a tea ceremony they perform, but it's more than just some guy flippig the lid off a platic bottle of Bud and dumping the contents into a plastic cup.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote billhoward]Japanese ball parks have kneepad-wearing beer girls (their term) from competing breweries who strap mini-kegs to their backs and come right to your aisle. It's not exactly a tea ceremony they perform, but it's more than just some guy flippig the lid off a platic bottle of Bud and dumping the contents into a plastic cup.[/quote]

They also hand out stuffed animals to any player who hits a home run and don't cheer at all except in designated fan sections.  Not sure we want to go the way of Nihon-no beisubaru.  ::innocent::

[jnachod]

This year's ECAC finals will take place at the Times Union Arena, not the Pepsi Arena as in recent years.

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/your_news/capital_region/default.asp?ArID=200726

[Beeeej]

http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,95629,95629#msg-95629

[KeithK]

[quote jnachod]This year's ECAC finals will take place at the Times Union Arena, not the Pepsi Arena as in recent years.
[/quote]
This year's tourney will take place at the Knickerbocker arena, same it has for several years now.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote KeithK][quote jnachod]This year's ECAC finals will take place at the Times Union Arena, not the Pepsi Arena as in recent years.
[/quote]
This year's tourney will take place at the Knickerbocker arena, same it has for several years now.[/quote]

Agree completely.

[billhoward]

The bowls this year include these sponsors:

(Presented by) Citi
Allstate ex-Nokia
AT&T
Capital One
FedEx
Outback
Tostitos
Tostitos
Toyota



...


Rose Bowl presented by Citi
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
FedEx Orange Bowl
Allstate ex-Nokia Sugar Bowl
Capital One Bowl
Toyota Gator Bowl
AT&T Cotton Bowl
Outback Bowl
Tostitos BCS Championship

I believe that's the list of the majors. It's hard to see a national championship built around Tostitos.

[cth95]

Same place I saw a Rush concert in '91 when it was almost brand new.  

As a side note, I went with a hometown friend who was going to RPI.  It was the only time I ever visited him.  He visited me a bunch of times and eventually transferred to Cornell.  I think the 5:1 guy:girl ratio at RPI outweighed the fact that the bars in Troy were open until 4:00 AM.    
::drunk::