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And now for something completely corporate
It seems that the Tennessee Titans have jumped on the corporate bandwagon. Their stadium had been The Coliseum since 2002. Which, 2002, big deal - seems they can't find a name for their stadium, if anything. But it's only the latest in the corporate naming trend. Here's the whole thing with going corporate. It has its pro and con, like everything does. The pro is that there's money for the franchise involved. That's probably one of the reasons why Buffalo, a small-market team, has little money - their owner named the stadium after himself and wouldn't have it any other way, even though the franchise is slowly going broke. The con is of a purely sentimental nature. I remember when Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium was demolished in 2001. The name didn't carry over to the new stadium, as naming rights went to the H.J. Heinz company. I miss Three Rivers, because it represented the team and the city of Pittsburgh almost perfectly. It was also part of my childhood in that it was always identifiable for me as the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But Heinz Field has since grown on me. At least when they got the naming rights, everything stayed local. There's something to that. People might argue that LP Field, the Titans' new name for their stadium, is a way of staying local. But the corporation, Louisiana-Pacific Corp., has only been in Nashville for two years. But whatever. As may have been mentioned, the Titans aren't the first franchise to do this. And a thought did just occur to me. The league must be really serious about moving a franchise to LA. LA must have called. They must want their stadium name back.
2006-06-06 23:57:23 GMT
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