OT: United Airlines Gets Naming Rights For LA Coliseum In Record Breaking $70m Deal
I pray to the football gods that Michigan never does this.
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2017/05/18/United…
Who did they beat out to win this deal?
I think this poor guy
That's the joke
Oh yeah, that guy....the clown that breached security by running back onto the plane after he and his wife had already agreed to accept the compensation that United offered them and then proceeded to spit on and swing at an officer prior to any video footage of the event.
Re-accomodation uber alles.
but if it is, that would indeed earn him a trip to fist city. they said he was a sex offender too, so who knows. would be good to be on the jury for that one.
the sex offender part was debunked. it was a different doctor with the same name. regardless, even if it had been this guy, it should have no bearing on how he was treated.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be suspects, now would they?
that's why i said i'd like to be on the jury. would be interested in the true, accurate details of the story.
Your statement is not an accurate representation of what happened.
Isn't it amzing how the story gets twisted, and then people who know the truth start spreading the false version.
Um....where did you get that version of the story? And did you even watch the video?
He definitely ran back onto the plane, that's why the police got involved. You just can't do that on an airplane.
United employees called in the airport police to escort out the randomly chosen seated passengers. When this gentleman refused to vacate his seat, they reached for him. They took him out of the airplane and then he came back. So police got involved much earlier than you claim. Not "after".
Here are two links which describe United CEO's second letter where he described the event as reported by the United Employees. Could you please point out where did the passenger accept United's offer? Remember that the flight was "fully boarded". Everyone was sitting in their assigned seats (most probably).
http://www.businessinsider.com/united-airlines-ceo-letter-employee-2017…
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-united-ceo-oscar-munoz-letter…
Wow. That's funny because it's not black people
This is your captain speaking, due to weather this stadium will not be opening on time.
USC historically drags most of their opponents up and down the field. Seems like a good fit.
USC didn't have a choice. It was dragged out of them.
I got another one... That number seems doctored.
Yeah, the first domino to fall here happened in 2013 when USC finally gained control of the Coliseum.
http://www.espn.com/los-angeles/college-football/story/_/id/9638471/usc…
I also heard that they've been already pre-selling out their future suite PSLs at $10M a pop. That's pretty crazy.
Seems like the overbooking jokes are all covered. USC has pretty much decided that they only care about money now.
The Coliseum, while awesome to be at from a historical perspective, is a terrible place to watch a football game. The only decent sight lines are between the 40s. As part of the new renovation, they are replacing a huge chunk of the only good seats with suites inside the bowl (unlike Michigan and Notre Dame who put their suites above the bowl so people got to keep their season tickets).
Sad times for college football, but not unexpected. I understand small schools doing this out of necessity. USC has no excuse, especially with all the extra money they're getting from the Rams now.
Isn't it similar shape to Michigan Stadium? How can it be that bad?
The Coliseum was originally made as a track and field stadium, so the "field" is much larger than your typical football stadium. The seats are far away from the field. I have heard it's gotten a tad better since the last time I was there because they raised up the field a bit.
They have experiemented with shifting the football field around. Currently it's shoved to one side of the stadium which makes it okay for one endzone, but terrible for the other. Not sure if there is plans to address this with the new renovations.
like a horseshoe design might work
I hear theyre popular with assholes.
Lower the field by X feet and continue the front rows down closer to the new field level? Otherwise what can you do? It's a track and field stadium. The seats will always be far away to some degree
and then find a lackadaisical quarterback to lead the team onto the field.
I would think it's actually preferable to dig down and install a lower ring of seats.
They don't sell the seats in the far end zone anymore and haven't for several years.
Seems like you could just sell large swaths of space on the bad end. Let people bring in coolers, etc and spread out. Sure the view would be mediocre to bad, but being able to sprawl out would offset it to a degree. Then just do a railing between that and normal seating to keep people from try to sneak the coolers/etc into the normally spaced seats.
Intriguing but clearly too much fun to become a reality.
cares...
USC football, much like UCLA football, does never really have to worry about being overbooked.
...but nice try.
but for the 2016 season, the largest home crowd for USC was for the November 5 game against Oregon, which drew 74,635. That's almost 20K below the 93,607 capacity.
This isn't true at all.
Is this supposed to be sarcastic?
LA only gave a shit about USC during their heyday with Carrol et al., let alone UCLA football.
Laughable that the NFL thinks the LA market can support one, let alone two NFL teams...and if LA is going to root for a team, it will be the Raiders.
I saw more people wearing Michigan gear in Brentwood then UCLA or USC gear last winter.
If Michigan ever does this, the current AD wont be in his position much longer. There'd be a revolt
Based on the history of naming rights deals, United will be out of business within a decade.
disagrees. wait...
Why does it matter if a company puts their name before Michigan Stadium and hands over say $100 mill. It amazes me that the nose snub era of this fanbase are so obsessed with trying to claim they are better than others they would give up bunches of money that would benefit the University.
Because while we have adapted to the times in certain ways for the better (night games, paying coaches what they're worth, etc.) no advertising in Michigan Stadium at least allows us to keep part of the old times alive.
double post
Hard to understand that?
its a tradition in sports to have your stadium named after a company.
In the pros, yes.
At the collegiate level, the number of football stadiums named after corporate sponsors for Power 5 teams is tiny.
a sell out. Weak sauce, man.