How Sponsored Stadium Names Became Standard
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Putting Brand Names On Stadiums Can Be Extremely Valuable: www.businessinsider.com/name-...
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Top naming-rights deals: www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/J...
The History of Sports and Advertising: openmedia.uk.com/the-history-...
Top 20 funny stadium names: www.eurosport.co.uk/all-sport...
Premier League clubs miss out on UK£98m in stadium naming rights: Premier League clubs miss out on UK£98m in stadium naming rights
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Sometimes, Stadiums with sponsored names also return to their traditional names.
For example, Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, Germany, returned to its original name after having various sponsored names, but it's actually still a sponsored name because some rich guy paid for the stadium having it's traditional name again.
That name sounds like something out of a dystopic scenario.
Candlestick Park in San Francisco was for a time called 3Com Park, and when Hewlett-Packard bought 3Com, they changed it back.
@@sohopedeco Probably only because of a certain global war.
"That name is terrible I'll play you to get rid of it"
Sleep Train Arena is an ironic name for a stadium
I am very aware that this video's thumbnail is clickbait hot trash, but I'm curious to see if it affects this videos performance. Have no fear as I have a much more Name Explainy thumbnail at the ready if I get sick of looking at that thing. UPDATE: I changed to this nicer thumbnail
Clickbait hot content. Love your videos.
... I’m a fan of the two main teams that play at Scotiabank arena, and tbh the thumbnail did help me click faster
Off topic, but I hear you changed up the closing for Thank You screen at the end of the video, but nice you still say "... and gets your name here, with all these awesome people." Just love to say along!
I mean.. the Scotiabank Arenas naming rights were actually $800,000,000... it's pretty innocent clickbait haha, the kinda clickbait that the platform runs on, that draws attention towards your content, hope this was reflected in your analytics and not just a load of crap I've hung onto but that's my impression on clickbait that actually delivers
can it really be called clickbait if A. its a true fact and B. it actually comes up in your video? it think its just a good way to grab attention. there's certainly worse ways to go about it. love your videos!
My university‘s library is called Volkswagen Bibliothek and I don’t like it :(
School name change, 'Fiat What- Is -The -Matter For U'.
Thanks for mentioning the ScotiaBank Arena in my home of Toronto. It used to be called the Air Canada Centre, and we used to call it the ACC - in fact, some of us still do.
Then there’s the first stadium in the world with a fully retractable roof, hey, also in Toronto. When built it was called the SkyDome, after a naming completion. In 2005, Rogers Communications bought it and renamed it Rogers Centre. Not sure why they just didn't name it Rogers SkyDome, as the original name was iconic.
I feel the same way. I have no problem with the name Rogers being attached to it, seeing as they own the team, but getting rid of the original name entirely stung. I went to the home opener that year, and so many people were yelling at the dome that the name was the wrong colour, they spelled it wrong. My dad has worked there since it was built, and I've spent many wonderful birthdays and Canada Day celebrations there. I still just call it the Dome if the context is clear.
@@invadercat3505 While knowing their "original" names does make you more "enlightened', there's no reason for you to not use their current names. It isn't wrong to do that. People who call them by their old names have personal feelings attached to the names but they mean nothing to you and the ACC or the SkyDome won't have their feelings hurt if you call them by their current names. Also, the names will continue to change in the future as naming rights expire. It's just confusing and inconvenient to not keep up with the current name.
And given that there was also a Rogers Arena in Vancouver, and Skydome is such a ‘does what it says on the tin’ kind of name, I don’t think anyone actually calls it Rogers Centre
I saw Shania Twain at The ACC in 2015 - has it changed since then? Could see the huge maple leaf logo and right into the Rogers Stadium from the CN Tower. (I'm from England and never known it as anything else)
Most of the South African pro rugby teams have brand names in their actual names
Same as a lot of European basketball teams.
Andrew Bourke in Formula One it’s basically required. Hell, the first two race this year were at the ‘Red Bull Ring’ in Austria. There’s also Bayer 04 Leverkusen, who were founded as a company team, but play in the bundesliga today.
@@Azeria I mean, you mention F1, almost every team has a name that mentions their sponsor (Alfa Romeo Orlen, Mission Winnow Scuderia Ferrari, Red Bull...), reason being that it is a sport most dependent on money, considering the fact it takes at minimum 30 million dollars to build a car. But it's weird to me that teams such as Barcelona's basketball team need to put their sponsor into their name
Luka Dobrovic that’s what I said
Literally the only teams that don't have a title sponsor, are in themselves, teams ran by companies to promote something else, Haas, Red Bull Racing & AlphaTauri, for example. Apart from Williams, who lost their title sponsor right before the season.
In the Simpsons episode Simpson Safari, a line of dialogue end with "it is now called Pepsi Presents New Zanzibar".
*dialogue
As some from Louisville (Home of the Yum! Center), the strangest part of the name is the fact that Yum has an exclamation point in the middle of the stadium name. Of course, it's only proper for the brand that owns KFC to have the naming rights for the largest stadium in Kentucky
I think folks are a bit more permissive when the business has close ties to the area.
Most older stadium in Mexico are traditional names, while newer stadium seems to have brand names. Though the newer gets an unofficial team name. Like Estadio Chivas, or Estadio Monterrey.
Funnily enough, due to the FIFA regulations, the stadiums can't use their brand names during the Worldcup. So all the stadiums built for the 2014 Worldcup in Brazil have regular names (even the one in São Paulo, which was given on a silver tray to Corinthians).
Heck, sometimes you get places with a new sponsored name that get referenced by the old sponsor name IE: the Sears Tower in Chicago. That's all anyone has called it and will ever call it no matter who owns it next.
Young douchebags call it willis tower
@@abradolflincler726 Ok Boomer (I call it the Sears Tower)
Domino's Tower Of Pizza
Reminds me when "The Garden" became the "Fleet Center" and then the "TD Garden"" but everyone keeps calling it The Garden 😂😂😂
I love all my fellow Improper Bostonians.
I remember when they announced the Parque Antártica, the stadium of Palmeiras football team in São Paulo, would be changing its name to Allianz Parque. Many fans were outraged untill they remembered Parque Antártica was already the brand name of a beer and soft drink manufacturer. hahahaha
In D.C. I liked the Verizon center being the sponsored name and I since I grew up with it, I was pretty turned off by them changing to the Capital One Arena
I’d think we’d riot if they tries to change dodgers stadium to something like “Disney stadium” (they already have the concert hall!)
The ABC in Australia isn’t allowed to use sponsored names, which is difficult when the stadium is like New White Hart Lane that has never had a non-sponsored name
I remember when Mike Ashley renamed Newcastle United's stadium from St. James' Park to "Sports Direct Arena". It lasted for all of 5 minutes as fans of the Toon love their stadium name and didn't want it changed. Less than a year after the name change was announced, it was changed back as Wonga dot com bought naming rights for the stadium and changed it back to St. James' Park!
I hate changing venue names for advertising purposes. I also love how you specifically mention this exact subject but not Newcastle, hah.
Naming rights of buildings, or something like it, do change hands sometimes. Case in point, when Willis Group Holdings, Ltd. leased a large amount of space in Sears Tower, they decided to rename it Willis Tower. Many people still refuse to call the building anything but Sears Tower.
Here in Seattle, we had a new music venue open in 2006 called the WaMu Theater in a naming rights deal with Washington Mutual Bank, which had adopted the popular "WaMu" nickname as their primary brand identity. In 2008, Washington Mutual went under during the financial crisis of that year, which ended the naming rights deal, but the naming rights were never resold. So for years after the venue was still known as the WaMu Theater with full WaMu branding and everything. In fact, it's still known as WaMu Theater to this day, but they've been rebranding it with the tagline "Washington's music theater." I just found it funny that for the longest time we had a venue that kept using the name and branding of a company that no longer exists.
I'm from the Chicago area; and there are, in fact, three instances where naming rights were not used on a sports facility (2 downtown, 1 in a suburb)
1) As a few others already suggested, and by far the most famous of the three, is the Willis (née Sears) Tower. From a nearly-defunct department store to a little-known British insurance company, many people still call it the Sears Tower due to its iconic/historic achievement under that name.
2) Not far from that tower is the John Hancock Center (named after an insurance company), now known by its street address after the insurance company left and the naming rights expired (the company didn't want the building to be called that since they were no longer there) but Chicagoans still call it the John Hancock Center.
3) In the suburb of Tinley Park, there's the popular music venue formerly called the "World Music Theater". It had three different naming rights switches since then. 1ˢᵗ was "Tweeter Center" after a defunct appliance/electronics store, before twitter was a thing. 2ⁿᵈ was "First Midwest Bank Amphitheater" after a bank with 2 locations in the suburb. 3ʳᵈ and current is "Hollywood Casino Amphitheater", which is odd as there are no casinos in Tinley Park or in any of its neighboring suburbs. Long time residents there still call it "World Music Theater"
To be fair the use of ads in soccer are so intrusive adding naming rights to stadiums would be over the top
When first opened, the Scotiabank Arena was called the Air Canada Centre, named after our national airline. A few people started to refer to the arena - built on the site of Toronto's Canada Post central distribution center, with the south and east facades retained - as 'The Hanger'. Now, some refer to it as 'The Vault'.
On the other hand, Coca-Cola Arena is a more recent change, with the arena having been referred to as simply The Colosseum, since the building it was housed in on the Exhibition Grounds went by that name for many decades. It also happens to be near another stadium that had the naming rights bought up by another bank. BMO (or Bank of Montreal) Field is home to The Argos of the CFL and the Toronto FC of MLS.
As for fans continuing to call an stadium by its old name, we have that here as well. Rogers Center, where the Toronto Blue Jays play, named after the major Canadian telecommunications giant Rogers, is still called Skydome by many, since that was the name chose out of thousands of entries when it opened in the late 80's. (Interesting to note, when they first joined the MLB in 1977, the owners of the Toronto Blue Jays, Labatts Brewing, were hoping that fans would shorten the team's name to 'The Blues', reminding them of the company's most popular brand, Labatts Blue. Sadly for them though, everyone started calling them 'The Jays'.)
2:25 As a New Jerseyan, thank you for acknowledging MetLife Stadium is actually in New Jersey. #WorldCup2026
In Colorado, our indoor center is called by brand name bc pepsi center is iconic while outdoors is called by colloquial name (Mile High Stadium)
Technically isn't it still Sports Authority Field or did the rights end?
I live in the SF Bay Area, and the local baseball stadium was probably one of the first baseball stadiums with corporate branding. It has changed its name several times over the past 20 years, but mostly because the telecommunications company with the naming rights kept changing names due to mergers and acquisitions. First, It was Pacific Bell Park, then it was SBC Park, and finally, it was AT&T Park. Recently, the name changed again when Oracle acquired the naming rights. My employer, SAP, sponsors the local hockey arena/concert venue (although I sometimes still think of it by its original name, the San Jose Arena). Many of my fellow Bay Area residents associate the name of SAP more with the arena than with the large international software company that sponsors it.
When I think of naming rights, I think of Philadelphia's subway, where Pattison was named AT&T, and then NRG. They replaced a geographic location (even if a dull one) with the name of a company that had no relation to the area. At least in the Dubai Metro all of the naming rights (I think) were given to companies that were actually located at or near the stations.
I am a fan of the Anaheim Ducks. When their arena was first being built it was call the Anaheim Arena, but that was changed to be called the Pond of Anaheim, by Disney. Soon after that name change, Arrowhead bought the naming rights and it became the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim. We all just called it the Pond. That was 1993. In 2006, Honda bought the naming rights... now it is officially called the Honda Center... some people jokingly called it the “Honda Ponda.” I still call it the Pond and sardonically say “the Honda Center” using finger quotes.
In Wellington, New Zealand, "The Cake Tin" is more widely known as Westpak arena, even though I'm pretty sure the Westpak name has since been dropped
It's Sky Stadium now (after Sky TV)
Since you brought up the Wells Fargo Center, it's worth noting that this particular venue demonstrates one of the problems with the use of sponsored naming rights for venues. Despite the facility only being 24 years old, it's currently on its fourth name - *entirely due to bank mergers*.
The arena opened in '96 as the CoreStates Center; but, then, CoreStates Bank was acquired by First Union only a couple of years later. So, the name changed to First Union Center. At least, until First Union merged with Wachovia and adopted the later name for the combined entity and, thus, the arena. Wachovia, was then bought out by Wells Fargo in the wake of the financial crisis; and, so went the naming rights again.
There's a stadium in Scotland called the Tony Macaroni Arena...
...but everyone calls it the Spaghettihad.
"The Sprite House"!! I'm dying here, I hope you haven't actually given them an idea!
It’s technically a convention center rather than a sports venue, but the venue in downtown Milwaukee went from the Midwest Express Center to the Frontier Airlines Center (when they bought Midwest), then Frontier sold the rights to Delta, and now it’s just called the Wisconsin Center.
In Minneapolis, there’s Target Center and Target Field. Not only are they named for the same retail chain, but they are also within walking distance of each other, and the company’s headquarters. Fans of the teams who play at the venues are fine with the name, because Target started in Minnesota.
Patrick, naming rights are also used for buildings on school grounds, especially college and university campuses. In addition, naming rights have a also been used for parks, housing developments, neighborhoods, and business districts. However, excluding many school buildings names, not all of these places naming rights involve a monetary deal, or company or product advertisements. For example, many of these places were either named after people, geographic locations, or the town or city where the place is located.
For the 2015 Pan Am Games (basically the Olympics, just for countries in the Americas), Toronto venues' names changed from the individual venue sponsors to sponsors of the games. i.e. Tim Horton's Field became "CIBC PanAm Soccer Stadium", Ajax Sportsplex became "President's Choice Pan Am Ballpark"
Also Rogers Arena in Vancouver, formerly GM Place, had to be temporarily renamed for the 2010 Olympics, so it was called Canada Hockey House for the duration of the games
Here in Chile, I can only think of one example: Movistar Arena, it's a dome on the middle of a big park in Santiago which hosts a lot of concerts and other activities, including the Chilean version of Lollapalooza
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In Chicago most of the locals still call the Willis Tower, The Sears Tower even though it's had the name since 2009.
Funnily enough, it's basically the opposite of most of these places as Sears is the name of a well-known (now failing) department store while Willis is just named after a little-known british insurance company (Now owned by a larger one) that now owns it.
"Maddison Olive Garden" sounds like a concept straight out of Futurama or Fallout.
My home city of Dublin has 2 stadiums: the Aviva, for soccer and rugby and named for an insurance company, and Croke park for Football and Hurling, which has its original name. I doubt the namkng rights for croke park will be sold any time soon seeing as it was the site of a massacre during the Irish war of independence, thus it would be quite disrespectful, along with no brand wanting to get into the history books to be associated with the indiscriminate machine-gunning of both fans and players
In Croatia, the biggest arena is just named after the city, and some have historic names or are exclusively called by an unofficial name. One smaller sports hall is literally called the matchbox (as in, the things that start a fire)
I used to live in Philadelphia, and the building where the NBA team (the 76ers, or just "Sixers") and NHL team (the Flyers) play went from being the Core States Center to the First Union Center to the Wachovia Center to the (as you mentioned) Wells Fargo Center, since the banks in question were taken over in turn by the next company. And all that happened in less than ten years.
In Finland they are building a new stadium in Tampere and its name will probably be uros live (English: male live). There was same outrage of the name because of corse the name being male and and the stadium is binding build literally above the main train station. The stadium also will be one of the host stadiums (and probably the staduim where the final match will be playd) for the 2022 ice hockey world championships.
My favorite is the Great Western Forum. It didn't even sound like a sponsored name.
It’s the one that got naming rights going.
@@ec1628 Northern California here. Actually, that dubious honor belongs to Sacramento, California. 1985. ARCO Arena. Named after Atlantic Richfield Company, the oil company. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCO_Arena_(1985) That and Rush Limbaugh’s successful launch to stardom via Sacramento radio station KFBK aren’t something we’re proud of.
Not a sports arena but this makes me think of the coca cola London Eye though im not sure that was an official name or just an advertising campaign but it seems like the same thing
The Docklands Cable car is called something stupid like "Emirates Air Line" 🤣🤣
The roof of little Caesar’s was supposed to be an LED roof that could have its design changed, but I think it became too expensive or something so they scrapped it, I’m from Michigan lol
Here in western Pennsylvania, USA, we have an amphitheater that’s changed advertisers/names many times but most people still refer to it by the name it had when it opened in 1990.
Same here in Indianapolis
My hometown’s old Stadium was called Taylor Field, named for WWI veteran Neil Joseph ‘Piffles’ Taylor. When the Mosaic Potash mine bought the naming rights, the venues official full name was Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field. But from 2006 to its demolition in 2017, it was sort of a gatekeeping mark of sincere fandom for Roughrider fans to continue to call it Taylor Field. And now that the new stadium is called Mosaic stadium it’s easier to simply refer to the old place as Taylor Field to avoid confusion
Amusement rides have also seen their naming rights sold, too. Blackpool Pleasure Beach took advantage of that with PlayStation: The Ride (now Tango Ice Blast) and the Pepsi Max Big One (now just the Big One).
I often went to the Bell center in Montreal to see shows.
It was called the Molson center when it was built, but Bell bought it off.
One thing for sure, during these shows, they sell a lot of beer, but no phones... 😆
This isn't just in sports arenas and stadiums. In the Netherlands, we also have this in concert halls. For example, the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam (after a TV and telephone provider) and the AFAS Live (also in Amsterdam) named after some kind of software developer. However, everyone I know calls the latter just by their old name, the Heineken Music Hall (yes, after the beer brand).
Most college level stadiums in the us don’t have brand names and name their stadium after a coach or player that was really good and when they do have brand names they’re kind of looked down upon.
Kentucky.
In the Netherlands, stadiums are usually named after their team, their town (Amsterdam Arena (now Johan Cruijf Arena)), or a famous player from that team (Abe Lenstra Stadion (Heerenveen), Johan Cruijf Arena (Amsterdam)). Names that stand out are: "De Kuip" and The Ziggo Dome.
See? That makes more sense.
Minnesota used to have the Humbert H. Humphrey Metrodome, named after a politician from Minnesota. (The Vikings and Twins decided they wanted to play outside instead of inside, so it’s not really used anymore. Also, the roof broke.)
In Nashville, TN, USA, we have “The Batman Building”. Technically it is AT&T’s logo on the top of it, but even AT&T employees refer to it as The Batman Building.
I love the Batman Building, the two antennae on the building help it look like Batman's ears. Greetings from a Chicago area architect..
SO close.. They could have made it look like an old cell phone (with one antenna). This is the first I've heard of the building and just saw some pictures.
I’m from Seattle. And I found it odd that SafeCo Field changes to T-Mobile Park. SafeCo was a local brand that had been around for a long time. It’s what I’m used to. Until my dad told me that T-Mobile’s N America Headquarter is in SEATTLE of all places. A deal for 25 years, $87.5 million or about £68 million.
Nice video!
Australian here. Garry Hocking did change his name back after a week. Was only a short term promo but it was still hilarious.
Glad you mostly posted pics on football ⚽️👌
In Toronto, Canada, there is a place officially named the "Rogers [they're a telecommunication Tech co] Centre." From 1989 to 2005 it was officially called the Skydome; to this day a great many of us [Canadians] still call it Skydome.
WrestleMania x8 was there - it was a record for attendance in the stadiums history, I have read.
Edit: it's called the Skydome because the stadium roof can be retracted; to my knowledge is the only stadium that can take its own roof off or put it back on. #canadianinnovation
Soon their's going to be the Planet: Raid Shadow Legend's.
Imagine an arena/circuit called the ‘Raid Shadow Realm’
The National Basketball Association's developmental league was called the D-League but Gatorade purchased the naming rights thereby the league is now called the G-League (G obviously for Gatorade)
I approve of this video :)
What a wild mash up
When almost all the stadia are sold out and named by sponsers, the remaining "missing out" on naming rights income are the more prestigious.
e.g. The FA Cup, despite now having a sponser is still "The FA Cup sponsered by...." and not the "Sponser FA Cup" or worse "The Sponser Cup". It'll be like classic cars with matching numbers and full history: more valuable than modified or without history.
You should check out the story behind the name of the City of Thunder Bay!
It was once two cities - Port Arthur and Fort William on the actual 'Thunder Bay' on Lake Superior - however, the region was commonly known as 'The Lakehead'. Anyways - in 1969, the cities amalgamated and the new name was put to a vote..
Turns out the mayor had a favourite - so, not only is there a rumour he straight up rigged the vote - he put two very similar options on the ballot to split the vote in his favour:
1. City of Lakehead
2. City of The Lakehead
3. City of Thunder Bay
Guess what happened.
In Vancouver, we have the Scotiabank Theatre, and because they couldn't buy the naming rights to the stadium, Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium
Was looking for this everywhere how it works thanks bro
I’m from Toronto Canada and in 2005 the stadium for my beloved Blue Jays changed from the neutral SkyDome to the Rogers Centre when the giant media company Rogers bought the team. Many people now don’t mind the name but a lot of people are still annoyed at it and still call it the SkyDome in conversation.
Stl stadium made sense for it to be Budweiser, Budweiser is headquartered in St. Louis. The stadiums with naming rights for companies out of their city doesn’t make as much sense.
In 1950, Hot Springs, New Mexico changed its name to Truth or Consequences, the name of a radio show. Apparently this was done to gain some benefit, but I can't find reliable details.
Ralph Edwards, the host of the show, said he'd broadcast the 10th anniversary show from whatever town would change it's name to Truth or Consequences. Hot Springs, NM did so, and Ralph broadcast his show from the new T or C, NM. The show was hugely popular, think of it being the Jeopardy! or Wheel of Fortune, of it's time.
Here in Adelaide, there's an AAMI Stadium, named after (and presumably sponsored by) insurance company AAMI. For the longest time, my dumb ass thought it was called Amy Stadium. There's also a Santos Stadium, named after the electricity company, the latter of which I first learned about, like, a year ago, from playing Adelaide Monopoly.
Boston United's home ground is traditonally called York Street, after the street that it is based in. Officially it is the Jakemans Stadium, as it is sponsored by the sweets company, but only the club calls it this in news articles.
I think this video made me laugh more than any of your others that I've seen. Here in Minnesota, we tore down the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, named after the former Vice President, and our two main sports teams, the Twins (baseball) and the Vikings (American football) which formerly both played at the Dome, moved to Target Field and US Bank Stadium, respectively. And during the time the Vikings were without a stadium of their own, they played at TCF Bank Stadium, which is where the Gophers college football team usually plays.
I'm glad that most of the British football stadiums have kept their old names. It would be terrible if Wembley or Old Trafford changed their names. Did you know that the Vikings played at Wembley a few years ago? The UK has hosted a number of American football games in recent years, which is pretty cool.
My local team in Brazil was offered a deal by Red Bull that would not only change the name of our arena but the team itself (Placing an RB in front of the original name) and because of that, it was (thankfully) denied
Sweden's national football stadium is named Friends Arena.
No connection to the American sitcom.
Swedbank bought the naming rights.
But as they got badwill in the 2000s financial crisis, they gave the name to a charity, named Friends.
the Skydome in Toronto was renamed the Rogers Centre but noone ever calls it that because it is a clearly inferior name
Until it got a new sponsor a couple years ago, I never realised that Phillips arena (now state farm arena) in nearby Atlanta, was named for a small electronics company
Who could forget the best sponsored stadium name: *KFC Yum! Center*
I wish I could! (see my post)
Yeah, he mentioned that
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There's a football tournament and team named after a bus company where I live, but the bus company started both of them.
Sometimes, the sponsored names can cause problems, more due to the choice of sponsor than anything else. Like how the Houston Astros' home stadium was named Enron Field in the late 1990's. (It was later changed to Minute Maid Stadium; at least the orange-juice company never got involved in a scandal as bad as Enron's.)
And I can think of the least two US teams whose stadiums will NEVER get sponsored names, at least as long as they're still in use: the Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park, and the Green Bay Packers' Lambeau Field.
fun fact the Superdome technically does has the Mercedes Benz name because the late owner Tom Benson liked the brand, at least enough to own Mercedes dealerships across the gulf south.
After you mentioned SubwayExplain I got an ad for subway lol
My favourite football team is afc Wimbledon and they play at the cherry red records stadium, but some still call it kingsmeadow. I don’t know what cherry red records is but some people might, and find this quite funny. We’re moving soon, and I can’t wait to find out who buys the naming rights this time!
My favourite is the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin. Bord Gais (the name is Irish for Gas Board) is a power supplier descended from a state body now privatised. So I always parse Bord Gais as the sponsor and "Energy Theatre" as the name. But it's not. The theatre is sponsored by the specific brand "Bord Gais Energy".
Still, I like "Energy Theatre" as a name, even if it isn't actually.
Japanese baseball has a weird mix of the corporate named teams with the corporate named stadium. The Fukuoka SoftBank (ex-Daiei) Hawks play in the PayPay (ex-Yahoo) Dome or the Hiroshima Toyo (but no one calls them that) Carps playing in Nissan stadium.
Personally, I think that there should be a rule that naming rights should be available only to companies that contributed to construction funds. If a company specifically commissions a stadium, it should get first bid among the contributing companies. For instance, Paul Allan was still with Microsoft when he commissioned Seahawks Stadium, so I fully expected it to be called either Microsoft Stadium, Allan Stadium, or just Seahawks Stadium.
You should make a video on Famous building that where renamed the Best Example is the Iconic Sears Tower which in 2009 was renamed Willis Tower to spite this Chicagoan’s refuse to call it Willis Tower and the rest of American and the World is oblivious to the Fact the Name was ever changed leading to a lot of confused tourists
The Korea Baseball Organization is very different from any sports league in Europe and North America. The league consists of teams that are named by their sponsored corporations instead of their geographical location.
The Cincinnati Reds play at the Great American Ballpark which isn’t called that for national pride or any patriotism on the owners part, but instead it’s named after an insurance company.
I imagine your script on the Washington Football Team just got a lot more interesting
10:44 I love sportsball, you should do more sportsball videos. I want to learn about its etymological origins.
Another example: race tracks! Not exaclty stadium but nearly.
Red Bull Ring near Spielberg, Austria
Mazda raceway, better known as Laguna Seca
former Infineon raceway near Sonoma, California
Circuit Bugatti near Le Mans, France
And many more...
The Israeli Premier League (the top division football league) is officially called The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange League (ליגת הברוסה לניירות ערך, in Hebrew). This name doesn't exactly roll off the tongue
It is even possible, that a company formed the sportsteam, as in Bayer Leverkusen, which comes from the company Bayer.
RB Leipzig, Red Bull Salzberg, New York Red Bulls...
Yes, explore the naming conventions of South African parents over the decades. Very fascinating
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico name change because of a game show. Halfway, Oregon changed its name for a year (I think) to Half.com after an online retailer
I honestly had no idea that the Wrigley from Wrigley field was the gum brand
I live 2 miles from KFC Yum arena. My hometown Louisville's college basketball team plays there; for decades they played at Freedom Hall. We loved the high aesthetic name "Freedom" in our arena, but how depressing that it was replaced by an enticement to woof down chicken. Considering KFC's high levels of an unhealthful substance, I thought it would be fitting to name the new arena "Cholester-Hall."
We have the DTE energy music theatre here, but most people I know still call it Pine Knob
There's the Three Arena in Dublin, formerly the O2, but many people still call it The Point Theatre (it's in an area on the docks known as The Point).
@Seth Urban, you should say that "here" is Detroit, MI. Otherwise most people outside of the Detroit area wouldn't know where you are talking about. I know, because I'm from Detroit, but don't live there anymore.
Part of me keeps hoping a record label or movie studio will buy the naming rights to the Pittsburgh Pirates ballpark.
You should do a video on the different Kaiju names.
In San Francisco after having Candlestick Park's naming rights purchased (and subsequently expired) the locals passed a law making the Candlestick name permanent... it seems everyone called it Candlestick no matter what it was named anyway: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_Park#Name_changes