is there anything more embarrassing than your team’s stadium only having the sponsor in the name, thus when the sponsor changes, the entire name of the stadium changes?
i fucking hate it,no sovl
>>158511879>your
luckily i don't own a team
>>158511879It’s sad, but tolerable if the stadium has a traditional non-sponsor name. No one (whose opinion matters) cares that the stadium in Dortmund is called Signal-Iduna-Park on paper, fans still call it the Westfalenstadion. Hamburg‘s stadium bears its traditional name, Volksparkstadion, again and people will refer to it as such even if commentators will announce it as something else. If you get money (and your club has no owner), it’s okay, if not reasonable. It only becomes sad in cases like Bayern’s Allianz-Arena, which has no real name whatsoever. The name hinges on a sponsor and no one can call it a different name
>>158512329EIN VOLKEIN PARKEIN STADION
>>158512458Genau
>>158512329>Bayern’s Allianz-ArenaIf you ask their organized fans, it's the Kurt-Landauer-Stadion, after the Jewish club president until 1933.Even those soulless copy paste "arenas" like Buyern's filled with customers will host naive idealists who give it some semi-official non-commercial name. I mean sometimes it's even two or some confusing mess. What's in Nürnberg and Kaiserslautern for example? Frankenstadion or Max-Morlock-Stadion? Betzenbergstadion or Fritz-Walter-Stadion?
yesyour arena's sponsor sponsors another arena so now you have to differentiate by calling it __ arena and ___ place and then they also own their own stadium and call it by that too>rogers arena>rogers place>rogers skydome
>>158512329Yep that’s allowedI’m a Broncos fan and there’s always a dumb sponsor (I think it’s “Empower Field” now?) but always “At Mile High” and everyone always just calls it Mile High Stadium (which was the name of the old stadium)much more soulful
>>158511879for me, it's the Inglewood Forum
>>158511879at least, it's not the KCF Yum! Center
>>158512329>Westfalen
>>158514216Yum Brands is the publicly traded corporation that owns KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and a few others you guys wouldn't know outside the states
>>158512536We still call it Staples Center. I'm sure in Toronto you still call it Skydome. People in OC still call it the Pond where the Ducks play. These corporations ain't paying me for the naming change
>>158514302Top lel
Funniest is "Paige Arena", the basketball facility for the University of Missouri. It was named for Paige Laurie, the then teenage granddaughter of the co-founder of Wal-Mart. Paige never attended the University of Missouri, she graduated from USC. She had no real interest in basketball. Putting her name on the arena was basically a stocking stuffer for her. A gift of little thought or importance to her. Just another jewel in her Walmart crown.Then it turned out that Paige had faked her way through USC. She had paid her roommate to do her coursework for her. After a falling out between the two of them, the roommate snitched, USC voided Paige's Communications degree, and Missouri removed her name from their basketball arena. The family did not receive a refund on the cost of the naming rights, which was $25 million in 2001, or about $48 million today.Don't feel bad for Paige. She's still a billionaire for dropping out of the right womb and now lives in a $50 million mansion in Beverly Hills.
>>158512488Never heard anyone call Bayern’s stadium that tbqh, maybe that just goes to show how vastly outnumbered organized fans are by bandwagoners. Freiburg fans for example regularly refer to their new stadium as Mooswaldstadion, even though it has been built as Europa-Park-StadionThe name is better than the sponsor one, but it’s still a whole lot of LARP. Oh, our beloved Jewish president! We were the good guys and persecuted!
>>158512488Nürnberg and Lautern have stadiums with established regional names, but they were based enough to also name them after club legends. Win-win. I think the regional names are more „real“, but both are greatHamburg could have done the same if Uwe Seeler hadn’t refused this honor out of courtesy and traditional beliefs
>>158514359Skydome is a little different because it wasn’t a sponsor name. The Lakers arena maybe is still Staples to someone old enough but I can’t imagine future generations still calling it that
>>158511879Yes, having that sponsor literally be a foreign governmentStaples Center is cringe, but it's got nothing on Emirates or Etihad
>>158514847>how vastly outnumbered organized fans are by bandwagonersYes, of course. Especially in Buyern's case, it's no coincidence that everybody has a home match in Munich. They were celebrating Magdeburg so much on TV when they played there, but it could have been anyone, really.>MooswaldstadionThat's kind of a cute name. Kind of fitting when they played in the Schwarzwaldstadion before.And yeah of course it's LARP to some degree, but I guess it's also to give some meaning to a place where you meet all your friends and see your team play.>Oh, our beloved Jewish president! We were the good guys and persecuted!It's Buyern, of course it would be cringe. Buyern ultras act as if they were some alternative lefties or something, their own team should be everything they hate, it's performative bullshit.
>>158527657Dude most people have no idea Staples is a company. They thought it was just the name of the arena
>>158528130r u retarded
