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…
I think this poor guy
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.
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?
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…
USC didn't have a choice. It was dragged out of them.
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The Coliseum was originally made as a track and field stadium, so the "field" is much larger than your typical football stadium.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.
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 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.
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.
Based on the history of naming rights deals, United will be out of business within a decade.
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.
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In the pros, yes.
At the collegiate level, the number of football stadiums named after corporate sponsors for Power 5 teams is tiny.