Just a hypothetical but with the ways pro sports franchises change hands I might as well ask this. What happens to the name NYRB when RB sells/goes under/option c...? Do they allow name usage? Continue sponsorhsip on jersesy? stadium? Ideas BS?
then it becomes the "whoever buys us can call us whatever the hell they want" team. they're not keeping the name "Red Bull" if Red Bull sells the team. no offense, but why would you even have to ask that?
Gurantee we go to something with Metro in it. My guess: Metro FC or SC or some shit like that. I'd be plenty happy going back to Metrostars as well.
I wasn't asking if that was the case. I know it is. The point of asking is with all the hoopla about rebranding, there is situations which might make it necesary in the future. Just as RB might pull out of MLS, what about the Chivas name brand on that other team in LA? If Vergara pulls out, does the team remain Chivas? I'm sure there is a largre question regarding brand names likes these and the teams invovled.
If RedBull still would own the copyright to the logo and name after they're bankrupt, then NYRB couldn't use it. If not, it's fair game. That's way teams in different countries don't have the brand name in their team name,...it's on the jersey or plastered on or around the stadium FC Barcelona Chelsea FC FC Liverpool Bayern Munich Dynamo Kiev I like these MLS names: FC Dallas, RSL, If I were an owner, I'd stay away from using the brand in the team name.
Yeah, what would happen if another pharma company bought Bayer Aspirin's parent company? Would we have Cialis Leverkusen, a team which had a four-hour boner but who can't score?
What brands own Barca, Chelsea, 'Pool, or Kiev? Is it the brand or the individual who owns the brand? Either way, Red Bull and Chivas better be able to go the distance or we'll likely have a MLS fiasco on our hands such as 1836. And for that matter, just speculation, but what about the Galaxy rebranding? If Becks becomes disinterested after retirement, what changes will they have to make? I'm sure his brand and name will be associated with this new image. What makes me sure....idk. Pot? The Rapids forum is down the hall. Direct dick jokes appropriately.
Bayer Leverkusen got the name because it was started as a club for workers at Bayer chemicals more than a hundred years ago...The complete name was actually Turn- und Spielverein 1904 der Farbenfabrik vormals Friedrich Bayer Co. Leverkusen.... How´s that for a brand
PSV were similar, being the sports club of the Philips electrical company (PSV means Philips Sports Club) At the time of Bayer Leverkusen's formation they had a rather interesting product range, and yes, that is a brand name and is what you think it is.
wish i could have gotten some of that back in the day. I wonder what the team abbreviation was? PSV- Phillips Bayer -Bayern Barca- ? Chelsea- ? Lierpool- ?
I think you may be confusing shirt sponsorship with club ownership. A shirt sponsor isn't indicative of that company owning the club. Reading shirts might have Kyocera on them, but we are not the works team of the Kyoto based photocopier company. There are very few teams like PSV or Bayer Leverkusen. Arsenal were formed by workers of the Royal Arsenal munitions factory at Woolwich, but it was never an official works team. Liverpool were formed after Everton quit Anfield because of a dispute with the landlord over rent for the ground, and landlord set up his own team once they'd gone. Chelsea were effectively a "franchise". A big new stadium had been built (Stamford Bridge) but there was no club. The stadium's owner persuaded the league to elect his proposed new club before a ball had been kicked.
I know that. I was going by mrecint's post. He made it sound like those clubs were similar to RBNY, PSV, and such.
No he didn't. You completely misread his post. Here, let me bold some of it for you (and underline the word don't, and point out that I think he meant "why" instead of "way")... He was wrong, seeing as how some teams in other countries do "have (a) brand name in their team name," but you totally misread his point.
Thanks for the info I keep waiting for the "World Rivalries" version of RichardL to pop up over here. What the hell happened? Not complaining at all . . . just shocked. We weren't enemies or anything like that but we've had a few tussles in the past, mostly comic relief from what I remember. PEACE
Yea I misread but its the typo. I thought he meant the way to do it was have ownership but just put the owning corporations name on everything. Oh well... you give and you take.