OT: Cowboys Stadium renamed AT&T Stadium
Nice to know Michigan played in Jerryworld before they sold their soul.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/07/25/5028304/cowboys-say-they-will-make-major.html
Effin' sponsors.
Hopefully the Big House doesn't get renamed one day to the "Built Ford Tough Stadium" or "Chevy: Like a Rock Stadium"
And who the hell is proud of winning a ".com" bowl?
I think the Green Scare should not worry Michigan fans.
The athletic department is in great shape so I don't ever see that happening.
Only a matter of time...
When they built University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale, AZ, Pink Taco restaurant actually put in one heck of an offer for the naming rights (10 year/30 mil, I believe). Unfortunately, the bid was promptly rejected.
They actually did. $1.5 billion in construction costs is a bitch to pay off. Of course, that's one of the problems with building new stadiums.
Why do you assume Jerry Jones has a soul to begin with?
It's not like the place is going to lose its "folksy-old timey" feel due to this. The Bubba Dome is about as corporate as you can get regardless of its name. Changing the name is but a tear in the salted sea.
Jerry Jones purposely built the most expensive NFL stadium ever, purposely built the biggest HD screen ever built at that time just so he could claim to have the biggest, and screwed over several hundred Super Bowl ticket-holders in an ill-advised attempt to have the largest ever Super Bowl crowd ... and now you're mad about them selling their soul? Not sure they ever had one to begin with.
Still gonna call it Cowboy Stadium
Another comment that should be more than just +5
Most people is San Francisco still call the park PacBell. They should probably rename less iconic stadiums.
Can we really consider a 13-year-old baseball stadium and a four-year-old football stadium to be "iconic"?
They should have just had an open contest to name the stadium. If they had done that it would have been called The Palace of Arlington.
Now when Romo throws picks they can blame it on AT&T's excellent coverage.
Certain stadium names will always stick in my memory, whether or not they are currently accurate. Cowboy Stadium is one of them. Some others:
Pac Bell Park
Enron Field
Comiskey Park
Candlestick (football version)
Comiskey for sure. The Tigers have been playing the Sox this week and I still would not be able to tell you the stadium name there.
As a White Sox fan I still call it Comiskey, but many have nicknamed it "The Cell" (U.S. Cellular Field). I don't think there was too much outrage at the name change. Of course on the other side of town Wrigley Field has retained it's original sponsor's name for it's entire lifetime as far as I know.
See this site for one short summary. Weegham Park, Cubs Park, then renamed in honor of Mr. Chewing Gum. The Cubs played there for only the last two names.
Pac Bell and Enron? Yeah, corporate names suck! We should go back to the ORIGINAL corporate names! :P
Better examples would be Rogers Centre (nee SkyDome) and Progressive Field (nee Jacobs Field).
Progessive Field will always be the Jake, and this is coming from a Tigers fan.
Certain stadium names will always stick in my memory, whether or not they are currently accurate. Cowboy Stadium is one of them.Well, it's pretty easy to remember given that the Cowboys play there.
Selling the naming rights to AT&T sounds like just about the most Jerry Jones thing Jerry Jones has done in a while. Next up, throwing his head coach under the bus while making aggressive yet confusing comments about Tony Romo.
The NFL is a buisness that doesn't bother to hide behind the pretense of "amateurism." When they started charging $9 for a draft beer (see link below), they pretty much let the world know they were going to recover the money they spent on the stadium ASAP.
If I was a Cowboys fan, I would be a lot more pissed about the beer than the name on the stadium.
At some point it'll go from stadiums to team names. It's a slippery slope, people! We're gonna be watching the Dallas AT&T Unlimited Plans vs the New York Doritos Locos Tacos!
I can't find the article, but I read about a rugby player, I believe from New Zealand, who legally changed his name to Kibbles 'n Bits for a brief time. It's going to get really confusing if that ever caught on...
The MLS has the New York Red Bulls. They're owned by the energy drink company I believe.
Infiniti Red Bull Racing--Formula One
RB Leipzig -- German soccer club
Scuderia Toro Rosa -- Italy soccer club(italian translation of Red Bull)
FC Red Bull Salzberg - Austrian soccer club
EC Red Bull Salzber - Austria hockey
EHC Red Bull Munchen - German hockey
Red Bull Brasil - Brasil soccer club
Red Bull Ghana - Ghana soccer club
there are a couple English teams in the lowest level with corporate names rather than city names as well but I can't remember them.
Already at the stadium. Not a big deal and atleast he sold the rights to an American company. These teams that sell their naming rights to Verizon Wireless and Sprint should be yelled at...
Kudos to the Bills (Ralph Wilson Stadium), Bears (Soldier Field), Chiefs (Arrowhead), Falcons (GA Dome), Browns (Cleveland Browns Stadium), Bengals (Paul Brown Stadium), and my Packers (Lambeau) for having souls. I'll even give the Lions half a soul because their sponsor is inherently connected to the team.
ED: Apparently the Browns play in FirstEnergy Stadium? Groovy.
Seriously, has anyone been in that place? The TV over the "bar" is a 12" RCA cathode ray tube model from the late 80's. I'm pretty sure it has a VHS slot in the bottom, so that's cool.
lulz