Metlife Stadium? What happened to GIANTS stadium?

[RandySF]

I really hate these new names. You can make a valid argument for "Ford Field" in Detroit, but I miss the days when forums were named after people of note, like the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome or dedicated to an important segment of society like Soldier Field.

[dembotoz]

1. with the huge paper industry around green bay wisconsin i had thought Kotex stadium would be good

[oregonjen]

2. In PDX, our Rose Garden arena was renamed the Moda Center

After Moda Insurance. Hate the fact an insurance company paid millions of dollars for that. It will always be the Rose Garden to me.

[JonLP24]

3. Giants stadium is in the neighborhood

I'd say next door but I don't know for sure. I do know the city is still paying for it.

[dr.strangelove]

4. Well since both the giants and jet each own 50% its not

Giants stadium. When the public was building stadiums they could name it. The Giants and Jets used mostly their own money, by a very large majority, for that stadium.

[jmowreader]

5. The worst one is in Seattle

After they blew up the Kingdome they built a dedicated baseball stadium and a stadium to play both kinds of football in. Safeco Insurance bought naming rights for the baseball stadium. The Qwest phone company bought the football stadium. Then Qwest was bought by CenturyLink and the football stadium was renamed CenturyLink Field.

About three minutes after this happened, the sports editor of the Seattle Times started calling the hallowed ground Richard Sherman and Marshawn Lynch trod upon "The Clink."

[fizzgig]

6. one of the denver papers refused to call mile high stadium invesco field for years

yeah, coors field is coors field, but the broncos will always play at mile high.

[Arcanetrance]

7. It's a completely different stadium Giants stadium is gone

The new stadium was built by the jets and Giants both paying 50% of the costs. It was originally called new Meadowlands stadium but than metlife bought the naming rights. So now every preseason we get to enjoy the Giants and Jets play each other in the snoopy bowl and no that's not a joke

[Rhythm]

8. For me, it's STILL Charlotte Motor Speedway, Panthers Stadium, and...

MOUNTAINEER FIELD!!!!!



All the corporate-naming crap just annoys me.

[lastlib]

9. Buh-buh-buh-buh-but "Corporations are people, my friends.."........

I'm with ya. It is EFFin' RIDICULOUS!!--as if these corporations represented something more than profits for the 1%! It's all about the $$$s, sadly. Makes me wonder what, if our civlization collapsed tomorrow and wasn't discovered again for a few thousand years, would an archaeologist think--"WTH is a 'MetLife'??!?" Or a "QualComm??!?"......

[RandySF]

10. Exactly

The old forums were named in such a way that it represented the best about the community around it.