Big fans pointed towards the field would be good. Especially if whoever we're beating is in that goal. Better than tear gas. Well, it is tear gas, I guess.
Oh, if I could have it my way, I would love corporate names to disappear. However, it's just not, They have made themselves an intergral part of a teams finances whether or not companies actually get a benefit out of it (they probably get to list it as goodwill in their financial statements...). This is all nothing. Wait til the Glazers sell Old Trafford's name...to an American company.
As I said, naming a stadium Tampax Park is a bad idea. I mean who is that catering to? Women? OK, well I guess I could live with that. But I like just selling ourselves back to the government and being called "Nike Missile Stadium". Clear and to the point, don't you think? Maybe even Nike will help with sponsorship dollars?
Just my two cents but what really sucks about the commercial names for stadiums is their transience! I don't care if it's Pepsi Field for 100 years as long as I can take my kids to Pepsi Field and they can take their kids to Pepsi Field. With commerical names they only last as long as the deal holds out or as long as the company is solvent. Then you stick on another stupid name. Many of love sports for tradition, history, and shared experience. Commercial names ruin all that!
Actual real former stadium: Enron Field Potential past stadia: Value Jet Arena Air Florida Field Montgomery Ward Park Oldsmobile Orena Possible future obsolete names: DeltaDome Unocal Park National Guard Memorial Stadium (after everyone becomes regular army)
Tampax and Stayfree are different. I thought Stayfree was a better match with United. And I thought the 'wing' thing was kinda funny. But I guess 'first string" would be funny in the Tampax example. Tampax Bay Field would have been more of a Mutiny name anyway. I just saw my opening and I went for it! Humor is so hard on message boards but whenever you see the angry Stokes avatar......... Wooooooooooooooooooooo! Hold on to what you got!
Yes, the fact that a lot of these names do change frequently really sucks. That's why I feel that the stadium or field should be named...so there is a historical and/or celebratory connection. Then let a company put a name on it and line my pockets with cash. Not the greatest...but at least it's still there... Invesco Field at Mile High. I know many of you are going to disagree with me on that. But it's a compromise region. DC's could be...[Corporate] Stadium at Poplar Point. I dunno...just rambling. BTW...the guy who thought about XM as a naming partner...it's growing on me...just because then maybe one could convince XM to start carrying radio broadcasts of MLS games. They just launched a spanish channel to give highlights and games of the Mexican league...
Agreed. Wrigley Field is the exception that proves the rule. But we're in luck. Since Washington DC has no private corporations at all, maybe we should just latch on to the non-profit teat we all know and love. World Bank Field, anyone? I mean really, DC is pretty bad off by the standards that organization uses to disburse loans. We have no right to vote. And we have an anemic private sector controlled by croney capitalists. Just the sort of place where the World Bank takes an interest. Washington Teachers Union Field, $5 million can disappear from their coffers and they don't even know. At least the hard working teachers of the District would know where their money went. NPR Field, Since Ronald McDonald's wife went tits up, those guys are absoutely flush. Since NPR no longer needs the money and we know they'll never give up their self-righteous Pledge Drive habit, how 'bout a little help for the unwashed beer swilling masses? Give us a field. We'll start thinking you're cool. I promise. I think we've been going about this all wrong. It's a win/win. These organizations will be around forever and they don't really need to do much of anything but get their name out there.
Oh sh**, I just thought of the worst possible stadium name with reference to a public/private company in the DC area... Metro Park ACK!!!
Not sure I understand all the gnashing of teeth about this. If we get a stadium for DC United, I don't care what it's called. To me, it's like stressing over the brand of peanuts they'll sell there. I think the name "Pizza Hut Park" is silly, but I'd be thrilled to be a Dallas fan right now. (Just for the stadium, I mean.)
Please, no. The last thing we need is the annual descending of trustafarians protesting the exploitation of blah blah blah... Put the World Bank name on the field, and the place will reek of patchouli and hemp for months.
I mentioned XM the other day as they are a DC HQ'd company. Sirius already does EPL games, I was hoping they'd do MLS since that's the brand I'll be buying in the fall But I'll happily listen to Sirius talk about a game in XM United field, that would be funny Corporations are evil, evil things ........ Freddy makes this more interesting too, more of a national company appeal. Campbell's is black and red and owns a piece of Freddy. Well, I could protest AND tailgate at the same time I guess If the vendors inside let you order beers on credit, we could occasionally protest the stadium staff and demand they forgive our debt
in all seriousness, it doesn't look that bad w/ some of the options we do have it looks like sierra mist soccer park though, they love dc united, freddy adu, freddy adu, freddy adu, which makes it more interesting, who'll actually buy the naming rites to our stadium that needs to be built if i had 300 million bucks, i'd build the best damn stadium in usa, but alas, i have 3 bucks
I think Sirius has some serious financial concerns if Howard Stern and the rights to every sporting event outside of MLB and ACC/Big10/Pac10 sports doesn't get them some more subscribers. XM is beating them badly right now...but I digress. (BTW, what do the EPL broadcasts on Sirius sound like?) We could always have the Booz Allen Hamilton Stadium.
This has already been settled. The name of the new stadium will be "Scrubbing Bubbles Flushable Toilet Wipes Field at Poplar Point."
Oh, great. I'll get third-degree burns from having hot coffee thrown at me instead of beer. As for naming of the stadium, I can only offer three words: House. Of. Payne.