news using the corporate names of campaign centers |
Post Reply |
Author | |
Ad nauseous
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Connecticut Status: Offline Points: 23601 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Posted: 29 Aug 2008 at 8:06pm |
For once can I NOT have product placement when I watch a convention? No doubt the big media companies pushed for this. What the heck is wrong with "the Denver convention Center" and "Mile High Stadium" oh, I guess they're too boring, plggh
|
|
One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
|
|
Sponsored Links | |
timdubya
Honor Roll Joined: 03 May 2008 Location: Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 1356 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
I guess you don't watch too many sports. Many sports stadiums have corporate sponsorship. Notable exceptions are Lambeau Field and Arrowhead Stadium.
|
|
Ad nauseous
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Connecticut Status: Offline Points: 23601 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Yes I do and I also hear the corporate names as well.
|
|
One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
|
|
FaithSF
Revolutionary I donated! Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Myrtle Beach SC Status: Offline Points: 4704 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Ad nauseous, maybe you don't understand the concept? Corporations pay sh*tLOADS of money for the naming rights of the stadiums, arenas and convention centers. San Francisco first leased the naming rights of Candlestick Park, where the 49ers play (and where the San Francisco Giants used to play) to 3Com. So, for a few years (whatever the length of the contract), Candestick Park's official name became 3Com Park. (Candlestick Park is located on Candlestick Point, which is the actual name of the piece of land that juts into San Francisco Bay. So, even though it was called 3Com Park, it was still located on Candlestick Point!) Anyway, the die-hards kept calling it Candlestick, even though the road signs were all changed to 3Com Park. Then, the contract expired, and the name of the stadium reverted to Candlestick Park. Then the Monster Cable Company bought the naming rights, so it was called Monster Park. I think it's Candlestick again, but I'm not sure. The funniest part of this was that when Bill Walsh died last year (year before?), a memorial was held at Candlestick, and the field was named "Bill Walsh Field." So even though Monster paid for the right to name it Monster Park (which I actually thought was kind of cute), they got screwed because it's Bill Walsh Field. So, the cities make a lot of much-needed money by selling the naming rights to their stadiums, etc. They sound ugly, I agree, but it's become the custom now. |
|
jeroboam
Honor Roll Joined: 17 Apr 2008 Location: Portland, Or Status: Offline Points: 2255 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
lest we forget Wrigley Field
|
|
Hootman
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 8151 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Excuse me while I chew my gum.
|
|
timdubya
Honor Roll Joined: 03 May 2008 Location: Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 1356 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
I think Wrigley was the original (it was called Cubs Park before) but then Wrigley owned the Cubs at the time.
|
|
Wild Starchild
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Savannah, TN Status: Offline Points: 1675 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
So Wrigley Field is the same Wrigley as the gum??? HUMMMM I did not know dat!!!
|
|
AW DAMN!!!! Wild Shot the friggin TV again!!!
|
|
FaithSF
Revolutionary I donated! Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Myrtle Beach SC Status: Offline Points: 4704 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
And Connie Mack Stadium. |
|
Hootman
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 8151 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Faith, Connie was the manager/owner of the Athletics. Not a corporate name.
|
|
FaithSF
Revolutionary I donated! Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Myrtle Beach SC Status: Offline Points: 4704 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Hootie, I'm sorry. I knew he wasn't a corporation, but I thought he was in the same category as Wrigley (not a corporation). But I don't know: was the field named after him, or the corporation?
|
|
Hootman
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 8151 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
I may be wrong (there's always a first), but Mack wasn't a corporate person, just baseball.
Wrigley started out selling powder and gum..then baseball. |
|
jeroboam
Honor Roll Joined: 17 Apr 2008 Location: Portland, Or Status: Offline Points: 2255 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
I got to see the Wrigley building on the Magnificent Mile.
I think it was the building that has the faceless stone angels on its top. You can see them from the Sears tower. The story is that William Wrigley figured he could cut costs because his building was so tall that people would only see the angelic shapes of the sculptures from the ground and there was no need to focus on faces. He figured his tower was going to be the tallest. I may be wrong on it being the Wrigley building but I think it was. I kind of doubt that story myself and figure the angels are just an artdeco thing. No enterprising business man in the early part of the industrial era would dare think his building would be the last one ever built. Still makes for a good story on a tour. |
|
musicman
Revolutionary Formerly 0000 Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Greater Boston Status: Offline Points: 7539 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
As usual I'm going off topic, but I always thought that expression would make more sense if it was actually shiploads. Shiploads with a P. I've been seeing lots of shows about about ships lately, those things are huuuuge. They hold shiploads of stuff.
|
|
Yutolia
Honor Roll Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Владивосток Status: Offline Points: 2586 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Mile High Stadium was actually torn down (and is now Invesco Field), as was McNichol's Arena (what used to be the Pepsi Center). I liked those Mile High and McNichol's better. |
|
"Xbox Live is an online homophobia club for pre-teen Tourette’s sufferers." - Brockway, Cracked.com
|
|
doggiethedog
Commercial Hater Joined: 25 May 2008 Location: In My Room Status: Offline Points: 108 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Not for long, in the case of Arrowhead. The Chiefs announced last week that they were selling naming rights to the stadium when the renovations are finished. But Arrowhead will still be part of the name.
We'll probably NEVER (hopefully) see naming rights sold to:
Yankee Stadium (even the new one)
Fenway
Dodger Stadium
Soldier Field
Camden Yards (Orioles stadium)
The above-mentioned Lambeau
Madison Square Garden
...and a few others, particularly historic college facilities...
|
|
Sometimes you feel like an Idol
Sometimes you feel like an Idiot |
|
Post Reply | |
Tweet
|
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |