Name that corporate titled venue…..
Seems like people are all aflutter about Sully’s recent column bemoaning the corporate stadia/arena naming craze. Knowing the rest of the Buffalo sports blogosphere as I do, the reasons had to be because of the article’s content and not its author. Right???
(snickering heavily)
Got me thinking though. Just how good is the average sports fans’ knowledge of stadium names in today’s day and age? The venue building boom of the last decade or so has left many a fan’s head spinning concerning the amount of names one has to remember, and that’s not including venues that have had multiple names thanks to corporations being bought out and reemerging under new titles.
With that in mind and being that sports venue gurus that we are, I throw out a little trivia quiz of “Name That Venue”. I’ll name fifteen or so venues, and it’s your job to figure out where they are located(and preferrably who is the main tenant’s’). Email me with the answers(at right).
One rule: stay the hell off our USRT site/blog for answers! Work for this one, pleeeeeeeze.
Prizes…. knowing that you’ve got a better memory than Sully. Isn’t that enough????
Note - The venues listed below are located in metro areas that currently hosts at least one of the four major pro sports leagues. One is home to a college team. One is in a former major league city, and another is located in a city that may soon join that club. Have fun with it:-).
A. Energy Solutions Arena
B. MTS Centre
C. American Airlines Center
D. AT + T Park
E. Comcast Center
F. McAfee Coliseum
G. FedEx Forum
H. LP Field
I. Ford Center
J. Sprint Center
K. Jobing.com Arena
L. Miller Park
M. Quicken Loans Arena
N. Rexall Place
O. Target Center
Bonus - What was the first corporate name of Gilette Stadium(Foxborough)?
-Peter Farrell
Ryan Says:June 27th, 2008 at 4:33 am
One complaint I do have about one of Sully’s points: A lot of the old stadiums were named in honor or soldiers because they were built as part of public works programs. The states and counties and federal government built them with taxpayer dollars and with many vets involved in the construction.
Today is still a time of arenas heavily funded by the taxpayers, but naming rights are supposed to be a way to subsidize the cost of building them. Also, their construction is much less about economic stimulus and more about keeping an owner happy and in town. Maybe on paper that response doesn’t sound so crisp, but it seems more… appropriate to name the Aud in memoriam when the WPA made it happen back in the day. Does the place Larry Quinn gave us “on time and on budget” have that same sentiment attached, whether named as such or not?
I may be too young to remember, but I doubt it.
twoeightnine Says:June 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Is it wrong that I still occasionally call the Ralph, Rich Stadium? I think it’s because the renaming took place during the first few months of my college career which I don’t remember all that well.
tgetman Says:June 30th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
For the record, my mocking of the Sullivan column was based solely on the content of the article….
Yep. Just the content.