Matrix
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
The San Diego Chargers used to play in a stadium named after someone that the city admired a great deal, I can't remember the guy's name now, but it was taken down and replaced with some corporate bull**** name. I just don't see how one's legacy can be so easily discarded like that.
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-23-2013 06:29 PM)Matrix Wrote: The San Diego Chargers used to play in a stadium named after someone that the city admired a great deal, I can't remember the guy's name now, but it was taken down and replaced with some corporate bull**** name.
Jack Murphy
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-23-2013 06:28 PM)Matrix Wrote: "Tampax Tampon Field at Vagisil Stadium?" Really!?! Really!!! Really???!
Seriously, though, I hate sometimes when the name of a prominent and beloved figure has his or her name removed from a stadium and replaced by a corporation's name...(Exhibit A: Joe Robbie & Robert F. Kennedy)...I don't care how much $$$$ is offered UAB, anything that already has Gene Bartow's name on it is off limits, & would probably be met with maximum anger and resistance by the majority of Blazer Nation if such an atrocity were to take place here.
RFK is still RFK. FedExField is a brand new stadium.
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Matrix
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
@aTxTiger: Thanks, man! You mean, RFK stadium is still up and being used? Wow, I swear I didn't know that. I'll tell something else that burns my biscuits. That corporate logo on the front of some WNBA team jerseys! I really, really hate that ****!!!
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(02-23-2013 06:34 PM)Matrix Wrote: @aTxTiger: Thanks, man! You mean, RFK stadium is still up and being used? Wow, I swear I didn't know that. I'll tell something else that burns my biscuits. That corporate logs on the front of some WNBA team jerseys! I really, really hate that ****!!!
Yup. DC United in MLS use RFK as does the US Men's national team from time to time.
If you hate that corporate logo dont watch the nba in the future.
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Matrix
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-23-2013 06:37 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote: (02-23-2013 06:34 PM)Matrix Wrote: @aTxTiger: Thanks, man! You mean, RFK stadium is still up and being used? Wow, I swear I didn't know that. I'll tell something else that burns my biscuits. That corporate logs on the front of some WNBA team jerseys! I really, really hate that ****!!!
Yup. DC United in MLS use RFK as does the US Men's national team from time to time.
If you hate that corporate logo dont watch the nba in the future.
Are you serious!!!!? The NBA is buying into this bull****, too???! It's bad enough looking at Golden State's new jerseys, but that will not set well with me if NBA players become "running, jumping billboards!"
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-23-2013 06:40 PM)Matrix Wrote: (02-23-2013 06:37 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote: (02-23-2013 06:34 PM)Matrix Wrote: @aTxTiger: Thanks, man! You mean, RFK stadium is still up and being used? Wow, I swear I didn't know that. I'll tell something else that burns my biscuits. That corporate logs on the front of some WNBA team jerseys! I really, really hate that ****!!!
Yup. DC United in MLS use RFK as does the US Men's national team from time to time.
If you hate that corporate logo dont watch the nba in the future.
Are you serious!!!!? The NBA is buying into this bull****, too???! It's bad enough looking at Golden State new jerseys, but that will not set well with me if NBA players become "running, jumping billboards!"
theyve approved it but i dont think any team wants to be the first.
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-23-2013 06:52 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote: (02-23-2013 06:40 PM)Matrix Wrote: (02-23-2013 06:37 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote: (02-23-2013 06:34 PM)Matrix Wrote: @aTxTiger: Thanks, man! You mean, RFK stadium is still up and being used? Wow, I swear I didn't know that. I'll tell something else that burns my biscuits. That corporate logs on the front of some WNBA team jerseys! I really, really hate that ****!!!
Yup. DC United in MLS use RFK as does the US Men's national team from time to time.
If you hate that corporate logo dont watch the nba in the future.
Are you serious!!!!? The NBA is buying into this bull****, too???! It's bad enough looking at Golden State new jerseys, but that will not set well with me if NBA players become "running, jumping billboards!"
theyve approved it but i dont think any team wants to be the first.
Just as Starbucks, Wally world, Dell, Intel, and many others have found out, the law of diminishing returns is just around the corner.
Oil companies are the only safe ones now...they can charge whatever they want w/o repercussions.
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-22-2013 02:55 PM)eagleriffic Wrote: Lousiville will be the first sell out......u of pappa johns.
I dunno...FedEx U might happen sooner...
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-23-2013 06:52 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote: (02-23-2013 06:40 PM)Matrix Wrote: (02-23-2013 06:37 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote: (02-23-2013 06:34 PM)Matrix Wrote: @aTxTiger: Thanks, man! You mean, RFK stadium is still up and being used? Wow, I swear I didn't know that. I'll tell something else that burns my biscuits. That corporate logs on the front of some WNBA team jerseys! I really, really hate that ****!!!
Yup. DC United in MLS use RFK as does the US Men's national team from time to time.
If you hate that corporate logo dont watch the nba in the future.
Are you serious!!!!? The NBA is buying into this bull****, too???! It's bad enough looking at Golden State new jerseys, but that will not set well with me if NBA players become "running, jumping billboards!"
theyve approved it but i dont think any team wants to be the first.
To my knowledge, they've put off that vote until later. If it is in fact approved, that's a big change because the NBA hasn't even let Adidas put their marks on the jerseys...and they MAKE them.
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
I thought Southern Miss was the name of a pastry company like Little Debby. Who woulda known it was a university.
J/K
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-25-2013 01:51 PM)olliebaba Wrote: I thought Southern Miss was the name of a pastry company like Little Debby. Who woulda known it was a university.
J/K
We are the fattest state and trust me, if you thought Daytona epitomized single file racing...stand in line at our home games....concessions are like communion....like staring into the rear....lol
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-25-2013 01:56 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (02-25-2013 01:51 PM)olliebaba Wrote: I thought Southern Miss was the name of a pastry company like Little Debby. Who woulda known it was a university.
J/K
We are the fattest state and trust me, if you thought Daytona epitomized single file racing...stand in line at our home games....concessions are like communion....like staring into the rear....lol
I posted this already, but Louisville has some fat fans. Their sorority pictures must look like Lane Bryant ads. This is based on the fine-from-the-neck-up beauties I've seen them bring into MM Roberts.
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-25-2013 02:01 PM)AndreWhere Wrote: (02-25-2013 01:56 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (02-25-2013 01:51 PM)olliebaba Wrote: I thought Southern Miss was the name of a pastry company like Little Debby. Who woulda known it was a university.
J/K
We are the fattest state and trust me, if you thought Daytona epitomized single file racing...stand in line at our home games....concessions are like communion....like staring into the rear....lol
I posted this already, but Louisville has some fat fans. Their sorority pictures must look like Lane Bryant ads. This is based on the fine-from-the-neck-up beauties I've seen them bring into MM Roberts.
Well fact is that Mississippi has the title of most overweight population in the nation, and until it is no longer the leader, then it is a title earned.
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
If not schools, how about conferences?
Three words: Barclays Big East.
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
The University of Fedex Memphis Tigers
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RE: What if Dept.: Corporations pays to change school's name to their name
(02-25-2013 02:49 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: If this ever starts happening, I hope Rice is the first to talk to Hooter's.
You would have the best mascots in all of college sports
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