Monster Stadium

**ilovetheusers** · September 29th, 2004, 07:56 AM

Ever play Mutant League Football and Hockey? They had a stadium called monster stadium I think. Now if we can get explosives into the real game...

**Tacklebox** · September 29th, 2004, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by meatwad

That's what we thought about the Fleet Center, which is now the Bank of America Center, which people still called the Garden for a while, which it wasn't.

Does that mean I can't call the Gahdin "The Fleece" anymore??

**Camaro80z** · September 29th, 2004, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by ilovetheusers

Ever play Mutant League Football and Hockey? They had a stadium called monster stadium I think. Now if we can get explosives into the real game...

I was thinking the same thing!

**Camaro80z** · September 29th, 2004, 08:32 AM

I agree that is not the best name, but it could be worse. I think it would be worse if it was monster cable park, sounds like yall should see some double wides there.

We have not had to deal with this here in Minnesota, since the 2 newest stadiums are named after the local power company (xcel) and one of the biggest retailers in the world (target). They have been that way since they were first built, so we never had a nother name to get used to.

**Camaro80z** · September 29th, 2004, 08:39 AM

I still think the sponsor for a staduim was in philly. Did first union not realize that their name would be shortened up. The first time I heard ESPN radio say that they were going to action at the F.U. center, I almost had to pull over I was laughing so hard!

**King Grover** · September 29th, 2004, 08:46 AM

yeah, sheesh. next thing you know, the 49er's will get shutout for the first time in like 27 years, or Jerry rice will be held without a Catch in a game, or Jeff Garcia will get a 0.0 passer rating.

That woodby Horrible!!11..

**Camaro80z** · September 29th, 2004, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by King Grover

yeah, sheesh. next thing you know, the 49er's will get shutout for the first time in like 27 years, or Jerry rice will be held without a Catch in a game, or Jeff Garcia will get a 0.0 passer rating.

That woodby Horrible!!11..

With witty remarks like that, there is noo way to tell you are a cheesehead!

**jitBob** · September 29th, 2004, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Major Kong

Man I hate that!

As a long time 49er's fan that just sux!
Now ya may ask how is it that a lad from the Commonwealth of Virginia grew up a 49er's fan? Easy! The neighbor hero was a very good running back for the 49er's from 1965 - 1973 by the name of Ken Willard. He was a cool guy and even brought John Brodie over a couple of times during my High School days, man that rocked.

Is this an old age ramble?

**Commander Klarg** · September 29th, 2004, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Camaro80z

I agree that is not the best name, but it could be worse. I think it would be worse if it was monster cable park, sounds like yall should see some double wides there.

We have not had to deal with this here in Minnesota, since the 2 newest stadiums are named after the local power company (xcel) and one of the biggest retailers in the world (target). They have been that way since they were first built, so we never had a nother name to get used to.

Yeah, and they are much better stadiums than the Giant Inflatable Toilet.

**Cleetus** · September 29th, 2004, 10:23 AM

Or you could have your park named after Enron, watch Enron go down the tubes, then watch the Astros scramble to get the name changed on the field

**TripleRLtd** · September 29th, 2004, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by WebHead

As if things aren't bad enough for the 5 time Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers,.. now they gotta go and rename Candlestick to "Monster Stadium". Boooo!!!

Full Report from: http://www.sf49ers.com

Seems it's not written in stone just yet webby. You may find this op/ed interesting:
http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/inde...4603118070.xml

Corporate dollars is name of the game

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 BY JERRY IZENBERG
Star-Ledger Staff
There is an interesting municipal skirmish taking place out in San Francisco. There are some killjoys out there who think just because the 49ers football stadium (you know it as Candlestick Park) was built with taxpayer money and is owned by the City of San Francisco, the people who live there ought to have the right to say what it should be called.

This flies in the face of good old rapacious American Capitalism. If this rebellion isn't quashed, the next thing you know people who don't understand how America really works will be complaining about the price of gasoline. Pregnant women will expect people on buses to get up and offer them seats. Cops will expect motorists to stop at stop signs.

And $2 bettors at racetracks will get out of line at the mutuel windows to help the guy in front of them who collapsed with a heart attack instead of stepping over him like the rest of us to get their bets down before post time.

This is serious business.

If the taxpayers of San Francisco carry the vote on what is known as Proposition H on election day, the city will have no choice but to retain Candlestick Park as the official name. This surely spits in the face of progress because it would prevent the joint's naming rights from being sold to Monster Cable Products Inc., which apparently will pay a lot for it.

If Proposition H goes down at the polls, it would open the door to the Monster folks to give us yet another warm, fuzzy, fan-friendly name like Monstrous Stadium or Beanstalk Field.

That's the danger in letting the people decide things. If they win they will have blown the chance to give the stadium a name that stands out. Monster Cable? They could name it Monstrous Stadium.

What has happened is that corporate America has discovered sports in a fashion calculated to warm a bean-counter's heart --assuming a bean-counter has one.

The naming rights business goes beyond advertising. It conquers our culture and buries our history. If they could buy the right to the American flag you would see stars and stripes on everything from toilet paper to jock itch remedies. For every new stadium in this country a new and positively ridiculous name arises on the landscape.

Sometimes, it disappears as quickly as a comet in the final stages of disintegration. When that happens, it leaves in its wake a memory that turns the town into another corporate joke. Take a look at the litter of big signs and big crimes.

Start in Houston. Hell, where else would you start?

Everyone else with a dishonest or unethical buck found it.

First there was the baseball stadium. The Houston Astros used to play in a place named Enron Stadium. Mention that and you risk being challenged to a Texas style duel with the choice of weapons centered around what cows always leave behind wherever they have been before.

Enron needs no explaining.

So they resold the naming rights to the joint after Enron Nation gave this country the kind of scandal that set new lows in chutzpah, arrogance and cowardice. In 2002 the stadium then emerged as Minute Maid Park. For the record, Minute Maid is a subsidiary of Coca-Cola, which settled a racial discrimination suit for $192.5 million.

Meanwhile -- same town, same name game -- the football stadium is new and gets named Reliant Stadium -- so named by Reliant Energy. Every time Texans hear the name they cringe. Reliant Energy Services, a subsidiary of Reliant Energy, is under a six-count indictment, along with four officers and employees for conspiracy to defraud the California electricity market.

The list of over-reachers would fill a leaky battleship or a large police blotter:

The Titans played at Adelphia Coliseum until Adelphia owners were charged with looting the company.

MCI Center -- former home of the NBA Wizards. Name changed when owners committed one of the largest corporate frauds ever.

American Airlines Arena -- Miami -- and American Airlines Center -- Dallas. AA convicted of pollution, fined $8 million.

Denver's Coors Field -- Coors fined $200,000 for failing to report contamination .

Invesco Field at Mile High -- Invesco paid a $450 million settlement over securities fraud

There are no limits to whom sports will sell its concrete homes -- often built with taxpayers' money. There are no limits to what it will sell. Turn on any televised game and this is what you get: "today's starting lineup brought to you by ... play of the game courtesy of ... bullpen cart from ..."

It's not the team and the community. It's the mass audience and the dollars.

It's not a matter of standards. It's the money.

Can you wipe the name Fenway Park for money or Wrigley Field or Yankee Stadium? Can you sweep away the history connected with those names?

Thank the Lord drug dealers haven't discovered naming rights.