View Full Version : CMGI, we hardly new ya...
Andy_B
06 Aug 2002, 10:56 AM
http://www.mlsnet.com/content/02/ne0805gillette.html
timmy409
06 Aug 2002, 11:05 AM
dose the revolution get any money from it
rockytoptenn
06 Aug 2002, 11:15 AM
Before Kraft became owner of the Patriots, wasn't the team owned by Victor Kiam? You know the guy, "I used the Remington microblade and loved it so much I bought the company. Remington, shaves as close as a blade or your money back."
Kinda weird that Foxboro has the unending association with shaving companies.
kenntomasch
06 Aug 2002, 12:26 PM
Originally posted by timmy409
dose the revolution get any money from it
Considering Kraft owns them and the stadium, they do, in a roundabout way.
Jeremy Goodwin
06 Aug 2002, 12:43 PM
On the other side:
CMGi revises sponsorship deal (http://www.cmgi.com/news/prdata/cmgiandpatriotsrevise.shtml)
Apparently, they are still going to pay money, but payments will start in 2003, and they will receive more limited sponsorship through 2015.
Andy_B
06 Aug 2002, 12:44 PM
dose the revolution get any money from it
This is the moving money from the front pocket to the back pocket scenario.
MLS receives no money from the naming of the stadium. An investor in MLS (Kraft) does.
Before Kraft became owner of the Patriots, wasn't the team owned by Victor Kiam? You know the guy, "I used the Remington microblade and loved it so much I bought the company. Remington, shaves as close as a blade or your money back."
Yes, Kiam was the owner I think before James Busch Orthwein, who was before the Krafts.
Andy
rocketeer22
06 Aug 2002, 01:45 PM
Well, considering that Jonathan Kraft sits on the board of CMGI, I think he is probably pleased to have Gillette come in.
LA Galaxy Fan
06 Aug 2002, 05:44 PM
Patriots dump CMGI and sign with Gillette to named Gillette Stadium.
Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter subscripter
Easybake15
06 Aug 2002, 05:48 PM
Originally posted by rockytoptenn
Kinda weird that Foxboro has the unending association with shaving companies.
Then, SNL had the fake Remington commercial back when that female Patriots reporter was being discriminated against. Phil Hartman, I think. Funny stuff.
kenntomasch
06 Aug 2002, 06:51 PM
Originally posted by LA Galaxy Fan
Patriots dump CMGI and sign with Gillette to named Gillette Stadium.
Source: The very first post in this thread.
Fixed your post.
Brrca Fan redded
06 Aug 2002, 08:24 PM
Originally posted by LA Galaxy Fan
Patriots dump CMGI and sign with Gillette to named Gillette Stadium.
Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter subscripter What a source you have.
BenReilly
06 Aug 2002, 09:52 PM
Originally posted by Andy_B
http://www.mlsnet.com/content/02/ne0805gillette.html
CMGI's stock has fallen over 99.7% from its high.
tcmahoney
06 Aug 2002, 10:06 PM
Originally posted by BenReilly
CMGI's stock has fallen over 99.7% from its high.
There's a joke in there somewhere about shaving and "too much off the top," but I'm too tired and too sick with a head cold to figure it out. Andy's got the right take on the story, though.
Khansingh
07 Aug 2002, 03:09 AM
Originally posted by rockytoptenn
Before Kraft became owner of the Patriots, wasn't the team owned by Victor Kiam? You know the guy, "I used the Remington microblade and loved it so much I bought the company. Remington, shaves as close as a blade or your money back."
Kinda weird that Foxboro has the unending association with shaving companies.
They actually did a couple of those skits on SNL. With Phil Hartman, in a bathrobe, in front of a giant Patriots logo. I loved it because they were so rarely on TV. "I've seen Zeke Mowat's penis. I liked it so much, I bought the team." Then he introduces a new line of razors based on some of the choice lines of the players. "The **********. You know. Not ********** in a bad way."
Actually, it's a funny thing. For those who don't know, Remington is based out of Bridgeport, CT, the city next to my town. Victor Kiam actually bought the Patriots with the intention of moving the team to Bridgeport. Imagine a city the population of Green Bay with the crime problem of Compton. General Electric used to be headquartered there, but moved to a more secure compound in the northeastern section of Fairfield (my town). The former GE factory and HQ building now stands vacant and is HUUUUUUUUUUUGE. Imagine a dozen hangars in a line, each one large enough to accomodate the Spruce Goose. It could have been the site for the stadium. All of the small munitions produced in America for the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War came from Bridgeport. But that was then. Somehow, when Kiam bought the team, he was out-bid by Bob Kraft for ownership of Sullivan Stadium (renamed Foxboro in 1991, much to my dismay). He sold the team to James B. Orthwein in 1992, a businessman from St. Louis. It could have been the Patriots playing at the Edward Jones Dome and the Rams playing at 'Norelco' Stadium. To sum up, the Patriots nearly moved to Birmingham, Hartford, Providence, Bridgeport, St. Louis, and Hartford.
kenntomasch
07 Aug 2002, 12:47 PM
Kraft stuck it to Hartford but good, dude, without so much as a reach-around.
SoFla Metro
07 Aug 2002, 01:18 PM
Originally posted by kenntomasch
Kraft stuck it to Hartford but good, dude, without so much as a reach-around.
Thanks for the visual, kenn. I'm gonna go boil my brain now.
Khansingh
07 Aug 2002, 11:49 PM
Originally posted by kenntomasch
Kraft stuck it to Hartford but good, dude, without so much as a reach-around.
It was never going to happen, no matter what John Rowland tells you. It meant abandoning the sixth largest market in the country for the thirty first. And after the league had lost the second. The NFL likely would've rejected the move and it was always known that Massachusetts had until the zero hour to make an offer of some kind. Although it was pretty much window dressing. He never intended to move to Hartford, otherwise he would've laughed at the Mass. offer. $75,000,000 for infrastructure? Connecticut was offering the stadium, control of the revenues, and no rent. It was worth over $600m. Why refuse such a package for some new roads? To blackmail Massachusetts into making the offer. Not that I'm mad. This state doesn't deserve a major league team. It's a land with no identity wedged between two states with very conspicuous identities.
kenntomasch
08 Aug 2002, 03:19 PM
Kraft kept the money from Connecticut, didn't he?
jotadia
08 Aug 2002, 03:29 PM
Originally posted by rockytoptenn
Before Kraft became owner of the Patriots, wasn't the team owned by Victor Kiam? You know the guy, "I used the Remington microblade and loved it so much I bought the company. Remington, shaves as close as a blade or your money back."
Kinda weird that Foxboro has the unending association with shaving companies.
Victor Kiam was sued by a female reporter who had gone in the men's locker roon..."I didnt call a bitch..just a real go getter"