Don't know about you, but I hate stadium/arena sponsorships!

[cboy4]

And I couldn't be happier the San Francisco 49ers have decided not to extend Monster.com and have renamed the stadium back to it's original name: Candlestick Park.

I love how the Yankees haven't caved and kept the place Ruth built, named "Yankee Stadium."

I like how it's still Fenway Park and Wrigley Field and Madison Square Garden, etc. :thumbsup:

When I was a kid, I used to be able to name every single stadium and arena.....but now, they're mostly all named after banks and airlines and telecommunication companies and gas stations.

The 49ers won so many championships at the place called "Candlestick," it just bothered me to hear it called something else.

So now, S.F. will start winning Super Bowls again.

Errrrrrrrrrrr, maybe not.

====================================================


Whatever you call it - Candlestick, 3Com or Monster Park -
San Francisco's football stadium is home to the 49ers
until the lease expires in 2011.





The name on San Francisco's football stadium is changing for the fourth time since 1995, but purists should finally be pleased as it will revert to Candlestick Park in June.

The San Francisco 49ers announced the change Friday, saying the contract with Monster Cable - whose name is currently on the venue - will not be extended and the team will not seek a new stadium sponsor.

"The next time we will talk about naming rights will be when we're moving to a new stadium," said Lisa Lang, spokeswoman for the 49ers.

The team is in preliminary negotiations with the city of Santa Clara on a stadium project that would cost more than $900 million. San Francisco city leaders are trying to persuade the 49ers to stay and build a new stadium at the Hunters Point shipyard.

Niners officials said the passage of Proposition H by San Francisco voters in 2004, by which voters expressed their desire for the stadium to be called Candlestick Park, limited the team's ability to find a new sponsor. The team split proceeds of the naming deal with the city's Recreation and Park Department, which runs the city-owned facility.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/01/BA47VBK33.DTL&hw=candlestick+park&sn=001&sc=1000

[RL3AO]

1. At least we haven't put sponsers on jerseys yet.

[cboy4]

2. True, but it's pretty annoying having to stare at the boner

medication ads behind home plate! :argh:

[El Supremo]

9. What do you call that Nike swoosh?

[MaineDem]

10. Or New Era caps? n/t

[El Supremo]

11. or the American flag on the back of caps?

Yes even that.

[MaineDem]

13. Yeah, what;s with that?

I haven't noticed if the foreign players have that as well. I should check out Dice K next time.

It all goes back to 9/11 and it's as bad as the flag pins.

[Bluzmann57]

30. I call it the Swooshtika

Feel free to use that term if you'd like. I have never owned a pair of Nikes as they are out of my price range and I'm not crazy about sweatshop labor.

[BlooInBloo]

3. I hate how the taxpayer pay for them....

... letting the billionaire owners rake in all the profits, while the jackass fans bitch about the millionaire players.

[davidinalameda]

4. amen to that!

and that taxpayers have to foot the bill for everything else

police, emergency crews, etc

[hughee99]

5. Proposition H gets rid of a pain in the ass...

(I couldn't pass it up). Good for SF!

[cboy4]

16. I can't wait (in a disturbed kinda way) for the first

Preparation H Stadium.

Viagra Stadium? If the price is right, I can see that also.

[LSdemocrat]

6. Honestly, if it makes the team more competitive and doesn't raise ticket prices, I really don't care

[cboy4]

15. Yea, I'm sure the revenue generated by stadium naming

rights is used to make teams more competitive.

:sarcasm:

[MaineDem]

7. Aw hell, I agree with you again.

:evilgrin:

[cboy4]

14. Us Bonds have have to stick together!!

;)

[madinmaryland]

8. This one was a classic (Sorry Houston folks)

:rofl:

[El Supremo]

12. Except for Busch, Miller and Coors

Beer and baseball were made for each other.

[LisaM]

17. Well THAT'S good news! I especially don't like it in college

Ohio State has Value City Arena, Oregon State has Reser Stadium........it's bad enough in the pro ranks, but absolutely intolerable for colleges.

Maybe the trend is reversing.

[madinmaryland]

20. Is it true about Michigan changing their stadium to "Ann Coulter Stadium"?

:hide:

[marmar]

21. Nope. In Ann Arbor, it would more likely be Amy Goodman Stadium....

:think:

[LisaM]

22. Or James Earl Jones stadium, or Arthur Miller stadium....

or even Gerald Ford stadium, which I wouldn't love, but could stomach.

I know Ann Coulter went to Michigan, but she sure doesn't represent the school of affirmative action very well!

[bluescribbler]

26. Or Emma Goldman Field?

:crazy:

Or maybe that would be Harvard?

[Twillig]

23. Well, you see, it's like this--the name Beaver Stadium is already taken

And, gee, the Beav's just wanted to name (RENAME) the stadium for a generous (more recent, not Parker) OSU alum/donor.

(Just like Autzen Stadium is named after an OSU alum/donor.(Give Phil Knight time though...))


You could believe that until you saw the ad logos for Reser's on the damn field. Anybody else have that?





Sigh.

(The U of Minn. is getting TCF Bank stadium built. I wonder if the'll rename Stadium Village to TCF stadium village. At least they're outta the metrodome!)

[mduffy31]

28. I don't think so

The new Minnesota Football Stadium will be TCF Park

[frylock]

18. yep. i never refer to our stadium as qualcomm..

it'll always be The Murph to me.

[marmar]

19. And some of them change names so often, it's impossible to keep up....

.... I couldn't even tell you the current names of the baseball stadiums in San Francisco or Houston. ..... And basketball/hockey arenas? Puh-leaze.

[joeybee12]

24. Agreed...I hate corporate sponsorhsip especially when the taxpayers

pay the cost of most stadiums...why don't we name all the stadiums, "The People of (City)'s Stadium"

[TML]

25. I Hate It Too

I didn't enjoy watching that NASCAR race from Auto Club Raceway or whatever they call California Speedway now. It sounds like it's a go-kart track.

[bluescribbler]

27. TD Banknorth Garden

How many Celtics and Bruins fans know that TD stands for Toronto Dominion? I just call it, "The Gahden", myself.

[Bluzmann57]

29. The unthinkable may happen! Wrigley Field may be no more!

The new owner of the Cubs is talking about selling the naming rights to Wrigley Field to the highest bidder. And you know what? It will still be Wrigley Field to every Cub fan, and indeed every baseball fan out there. And there iois also a potential backlash from it because fans may just say "screw it, I just won't patronize any company which puts their name on the hallowed park." I don't much care if it helps my beloved Cubs make and win the World Series.

[Dinger]

31. Lambeau Field Has Gates That Are Sponsored, That Way The Stadium Name Stays The Same : )

It'll be a cold day in hell when any Packer fans call Lambeau Field anything other than LAMBEAU FIELD!

[rpannier]

32. Kind of like those idiotic bowl names

The Chick-fila Bowl
The Poulin Weed-eater bowl
The Tostitas Fiesta Bowl

[LisaM]

33. Chick-Fil-A --- what a dopey name!

I ALWAYS pronounce it Chick Feelah. I refuse to pronounce it the way they want me to (funny to hear people constantly correct me, though).

[jimnasium]

34. College Bowl Games are worse...

Here's my bottom five....

5. MEINEKE CAR CARE BOWL
4. ROADY'S HUMANITARIAN BOWL
3. ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL (If y'all knew how bad Allsnake screwed over Katrina victims in N.O., you'd understand.)
2. R+L CARRIERS NEW ORLEANS BOWL

and in the top (er... bottom) spot...

1. SAN DIEGO COUNTY CREDIT UNION POINSETTIA BOWL

:wtf: