I am so happy I finally started a thread like this. I am not so happy you guys have made me laugh so hard my generic soft drink is squirting out my nose :wink: . Thank you for just making my day!
I have a T-shirt and a cap that have that name proudly emblazoned.
Wouldn't part with them.
In Houston we got Minute Maid Park.
(the insult is a joke, you understand, feigned jocular familiarity and all that.)
sweetcomplication wrote:Do any of you remember when ballparks had real names? 3-Com Park, my ass!
I remember it well. But who will remember Enron Field?
Please click on the below URL and tell me what you think: Thank you!
http://unbrandamerica.org/home.html
A nice little populist uprising.
I lke it, sweetc.
When manufacturers of more mundane products start to buy stadiums, we might look forward to some rather startling headlines as well:
USC dumps NC State in the Vanish Toilet Bowl . . .
I'm waiting for the Prudential Insurance Presidential Election of 2004!
How about a visit to the Pillsbury Cookoff Statue of Liberty?
It is goddam embarrassing.
Yeah! I mean, who the hell remembers Wrigley Field?!?!
Hey, I just came up with an evil idea: How about selling our A2K identities to corporate sponsors? For instance, I could be "Pepsi--For Those Who Think Young" (or whatever their motto is now) and have a Pepsi logo as my avatar.
I wonder if I can interest some corporation in the concept. Think of the exposure they'd gain from this synergy!
GUYS:
I like the idea, it seems like a variation on "Turn off the TV week".
BTW:
Check this out
http://www.geocities.com/eradicate_98/New_Patriot/Index.htm
(Sound Familar. . . )
soooooooooo, take a look at this:
"NAME GAME
For $900,000 a year, San Francisco sold Candlestick's name in 1995, re-christening the stadium 3Com Park.
3Com's contract ended last year, and the high-tech company is considered to be more interested in conserving its cash than trying to extend the deal.
Disdainful of the commercialism of such deals, the Board of Supervisors also nixed a renaming offer from Sony that would have brought in $1 million a year.
''The victory in San Francisco last year was huge. Candlestick was the first pro stadium to return to its popular name,'' said Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, a group opposed to excessive commercial advertising. ''It showed the tremendous hatred that sports fans have for these naming rights deals.''
Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. [/i]
Excellent. I'm so happy to see that. Hated that 3-Com thing -- the place is Candlestick, and it's windy and wet, and that's all there is to it. (Not sure why any company would want to be associated with that stadium anyway, but there you go.) Now if they could tear down that giant Coke bottle in the outfield at Pac Bell (a big ugh in itself), they'd really be getting somewhere...
Just great to hear back so soon, PatioDog. I agree, of course, re Pac Bell; but, hey, it's San Francisco, so who knows? At least the SOB's have taken the 1st step, right? Did you ever live in the Bay Area?
IMO, blacking out commercials is illegal: the corporations have paid for their placement, therefore such an action may be tantamount to deliberate destruction of the third party's property.
I grew up over in the Sierras, lived in Santa Cruz for five years, the gf lived in SF for a while...
I know this sounds like a simple solution but Term Limits would solve this problem as well as many others. Think about it.
