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This still confuses me.

Is The Home Depot Center the name of the entire complex AND the name of the soccer stadium winthin the complex?

Andy

 

What's the capacity of tennis and track-n-field stadiums?

 

Who cares?

 

it's all corporate america. how can a stadium that is in your or anyones city be called after shaving cream or a place to get lumber? it all should be brought local, the mom and pop stores that really make a city(that is if you still live in a city that hasn't been called [hot tolles atlanta, or nestle new york] if anything we should be pist about a sports complex being sold like we are to telemarketers and who ever will pay the money to see our (drowers!)

 

You are aware that Gillette is headquartered in Boston, right?

 

yes, that's not the point! it's the names of stadiums that really have no feel to there location. yes, maybe the headquarters of some mass company are locAted there, but that really has no conection to the city, does it? where does the advertising end?

 

In front of the jersey?

 

Dude, no one is forcing you to call "New Foxboro" "Gillette Stadium" or even worse "The Big Razor."

The fact that some company was crazy enough to pay millions to plaster their name all over a building doesn't make any difference except that the damn thing will be called that in official statements.

For the teams and the survival of our sport, I think that's a fair trade-off.

We do it our way, they do it theirs.

 

Incidentally, from what I am able to gather, the "unofficial" name of the stadium is "Victoria Street", because it sits on--yup, you guessed it, Victoria Street. That ties it to the local community, doesn't it?

Does Reebok Stadium in England have an "unofficial" name?

 

Let me make two point

One - the point about Corporate America. What about accross the pond, with Cellnet Riverside, Walkers Stadium, AOL Arena or BayArena?

Two - if you're building a house and someone walks up to you and offers the sum equal to anywhere between 10 and 25% of the construction costs to name the house after them, what would you do?

 

EXACTLY. This is a part of our sports economy that is not going away. Any responsible business owner is going to try to maximize any revenue stream he can get.

However, it seems that a lot of businesses have fallen on hard times after locking themselves into long term naming deals. American Airlines here in Dallas, TWA, Enron, Pro Player Park. I am sure I am missing several on the East coast.