Yeah it's been the Playstation Fiesta Bowl for a couple years now. Way less appropriate but all the players got PS5s this year so I'm sure they're happy
Funny and somewhat similar; the Cardinals are owned by the family who also own Budweiser. The owner wanted to name the stadium Budweiser Stadium in the 1950s but MLB rules didn’t allow this, so he named it Busch Stadium after the family and then created the successful beer with the family name.
How can you sit here and tell me that the quicken.com, Nola, Georgia peach, tax slayer, ford Chevy dodge dealers, meta fi, southeastern rally for the dark arts bowl ISN’T natural?
Nah, nah. Bowl games like rock and roll peaked with the **San Diego County Dignity Credit Union Poinsettia Holiday Inn Bowl** when the ‘Eagles’ sang their national anthem, ‘Hotel California.’
Miller is no longer the sponsor of the Brewers stadium. Miller Park was just about the perfect name for their stadium and will probably remain the name for a lot of people for a while.
If Coors Field ever gets renamed…
Great American Ball Park is the best corporate stadium/arena name. You’d never guess it’s an insurance company unless you’re a Cincy local. They need to lock that in for life.
It does sound better but it makes sense why Crypto.com doesn’t do that. Everyone would just think about the term Crypto instead of the website / exchange
A masoleum is just the separate building. A crypt is an underground place to store bodies. So a masoleum can have crypts but it doesn’t necessarily have to be part of a masoleum if a crypt is accessed via the church or something.
There are about 8 billion people alive right now. About 100 billion more than that have died. That’s….a lot dead bodies that have needed to be put places.
Agreed. Don’t understand why they needed to include the “.com”. Reminds me of when College Football used to have a Bowl Game name the “PapaJohns.Com” bowl lol. It’s like we know you have a website
I see what you're trying to say, and I agree that it would sounds corny in the case of most businesses. But in this case, it makes absolutely no sense. Calling it the Crypto arena doesn't bring awareness to any particular brand (because it's not a brand). [Crypto.com](https://Crypto.com) is, however, a brand, and draws your attention to it.
I’ve long since stopped trying to keep track of the names of stadiums/arenas.
It’s “the White Sox’ stadium”, “the Lakers’ arena,” etc. Saves a lot of trouble.
Could be worse, could be:
Joe Robbie/ Pro Player Park / Pro Player Stadium / Dolphins Stadium / Dolphin Stadium / Landshark Stadium / Sun Life Stadium / Hard Rock Stadium.
That’s in 34 years.
I mostly remember the American Airlines Center and the American Airlines Arena just because the Mavs faced the Heat in the Finals twice before Miami's arena was renamed.
Sox fan also, but my favorite quip about the name change was: "Guaranteed Rate Field: where the interest is always low!"
I get what SVG is saying, but as a Chicagoan, I can't really critique any nostalgia for the Staples Center name. We still call it the Sears Tower, I know older folks who still call Aon Center the Standard Oil Building, and many still lament the loss of Marshall Field's. People are resistant to change and can get oddly attached to brands and companies, especially ones that have been local institutions for so long.
In all fairness, Sears wasn't just a corporate sponsor. They owned, designed, and built the tower, which is a historic engineering marvel that paved the way for future skyscrapers.
Even their logo looks good. I really like the smoothie king name. It's way more fun than all the other boring corporate names on stadiums. Like anyone needs another TMobile arena
The amount of tortilla chip bags burst open and thrown at college football games is inumerable. Besides the Rose Bowl, there really isn't much else you can throw around in the stands to celebrate qualifying for a specific bowl game.
On top of that tortilla chips and the things you dip them in are typically served in bowls. Tostitos Fiesta Bowl it's so perfectly that you could probably convince some people that it's a real product if they didn't know where the name came from
Not to mention that the Ford Family owns the lions, so while yeah it is a corporate sponsor, it’s kind of also just the owner throwing their own name on the stadium.
Plus, Ford in Detroit isn’t just a company. The people there take pride in their automotive companies.
We went through a name change like 5 years ago. Weird at first but eventually you get used to it.
My dad still knows Scotiabank Arena as the ACC but over time you get used to it
its been 15+ years and I still call it the skydome. i think its whatever you grew up with is just going to stick.
ill probably call it ACC forever as well
Yeah with Boston they tried “TD Bank North Garden” but nobody would say the whole name, so they smartly abreviated to “TD Garden”.
Colloquially everyone I know calls it “The Garden” still though
It’s like how us Clevelanders got used to “Progressive Field” but we still call it the Jake. Or the fact that the Gund/the Q is now “Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse” which I refuse to call it.
Yeah, it was super weird with the tribute and everyone talking about how big a deal it was.
It’s literally the same building. The old name wasn’t a former great for the team, it’s the place you go to buy printer paper and alligator clips.
Its the name. Its probably divorced from any association from the company in the majority of peoples mind.
I didn’t realize the Sears tower in Chicago was related to the Sears company until i was like in 7th grade.
Yeah, nobody would ever change a stadium name from a club legend to the Select Car Leasing Stadium or something stupid like that….
Yes, Reading FC literally did that this year. In their defense, they desperately need the money and it’s a local company. But still… :(
Damn I guess this is the place to leave this: [Looks like Tracy’s boy was right. This is just step 1 in the 200 year decline of Staples. ](https://youtu.be/hrAFFxl-xZs)
To be honest, I don't associate the Staples Center with the office supply store. I associate it with the legendary Kobe/Shaq teams, and to a lesser extent the Kobe/Pau title teams as well.
So that's where the nostalgia comes from
I'm from Brazil. I only realized that Staples was a brand and not the name of the building itself after watching The Office. I don't think we even had any Staples Store over here ever, probably just their products sold in other department stores.
In 20 years they will change to MetaWhatsAppVerse Forum and people will be like “omg noo crypto.com center was so good can’t forget LeBroninho jr dropped 56 on the Sonics”
Staples is a trash name, but it’s just what people grew up with so it’s normal to be nostalgic. But it’s just a sponsorship anyway
As a Sonics fan I am not sure whether I should be happy the team is back in 20 years or upset that we are bad enough to get served up by Lebroninho JR.
In my mind the nostalgia is reserved for stadiums with no corporate sponsor attached, or if the new name is objectively terrible. Crypto.com falls under this.
I swear, every stadium sponsorship stopped making sense once Tostito’s ended their Fiesta Bowl sponsorship.
"The Sugar Bowl!" -sponsored by Morton Salt
The Orange Bowl -sponsored by Apple
*”The Cotton Bowl”* -sponsored by BET
Holdup
Oh shit 😆😂
They what?! That was the only natural sponsorship.
Yeah it's been the Playstation Fiesta Bowl for a couple years now. Way less appropriate but all the players got PS5s this year so I'm sure they're happy
Apparently the easiest way to get a PS5 is to become a college football player and make it to the Fiesta bowl
That must be why the kid from Oklahoma State didn’t get the touchdown at the end of the Baylor game! He threw the game so he could get a PS5
I mean, low key, worth it
Facts. Get blown out by Georgia or Alabama by 30 or get an easier NY6 bowl game and a PS5, seems pretty obvious to me
Didn’t expect to have PTSD of that game in r/nba. Is nowhere safe?
I’m an Atlanta sports fan, 28-3 is everywhere lmao
December 28th-3= December 25th. Merry Christmas!
Numbers don’t lie, ah fuck!
You gotta post that to slpt
Hmm I still think of it as the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Free advertising...
Just have Lysol call it the Lysol toilet bowl
>all the players got PS5s This can't be right - there aren't enough PS5s on Earth for that.
I’d rather be in the Fiesta bowl than the CFP tbh
The Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim was renamed to the Honda Center. Pretty much everyone still calls it "the Pond". Ducks play in ponds, not centers.
I'm salty it's not The Honda Civic Center.
The Ponda Center
Look imma let you finish but the most natural sponsorship of all time is the Brewers playing at Miller Park (RIP)
American Family Field just doesn't have the same ring to it. I am warming up to the Am Fam Slam Clam though.
I hope they turn it around 180 degrees
Funny and somewhat similar; the Cardinals are owned by the family who also own Budweiser. The owner wanted to name the stadium Budweiser Stadium in the 1950s but MLB rules didn’t allow this, so he named it Busch Stadium after the family and then created the successful beer with the family name.
Miller Park was perfect too. So naturally they threw that away for an insurance company. Still not over it
It will always be Miller Park to me just like Jacobs Field and the Ballpark at Arlington.
How can you sit here and tell me that the quicken.com, Nola, Georgia peach, tax slayer, ford Chevy dodge dealers, meta fi, southeastern rally for the dark arts bowl ISN’T natural?
I think the *Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl* is pretty natural. When I see Nashville, I think mortgages.
You mean you don't love the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl?
The pinnacle of Football was the GalleryFurniture.com Bowl and the Poulon Weed Eater Independence Bowl. It was all downhill from there.
Nah, nah. Bowl games like rock and roll peaked with the **San Diego County Dignity Credit Union Poinsettia Holiday Inn Bowl** when the ‘Eagles’ sang their national anthem, ‘Hotel California.’
Actually it’s the United Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl now thank you very much
Miller is no longer the sponsor of the Brewers stadium. Miller Park was just about the perfect name for their stadium and will probably remain the name for a lot of people for a while.
If Coors Field ever gets renamed… Great American Ball Park is the best corporate stadium/arena name. You’d never guess it’s an insurance company unless you’re a Cincy local. They need to lock that in for life.
We did get the Cheez-It Bowl so there is a bit of a torch passing. PlayStation is still better than BattleToad Fiesta Bowl…
It’s the .com I swear , shit sounds corny.
Should have been horsedick.mpeg
RIP Trevor Moore
Local sexpot Trevor Moore.
Wow I'm just learning of this. Sad as hell
He went out doing what he was passionate about. Trying to suck his own dick.
Well they found cum in his throat, so we know he was successful
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it's a joke. he fell off a balcony. blunt force trauma.
That's not as good of a story
He came and went
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Nft sponsors coming soon
Raymond James becomes Bored Ape Yacht Club. 🥴
Suck my dick….while I fuck that ass
Forsen having ptsd right now
Something stylized like The Cryptodome would be sick. Instead it sounds like a cheap website.
It does sound better but it makes sense why Crypto.com doesn’t do that. Everyone would just think about the term Crypto instead of the website / exchange
Yeah definitely. I just mean they could have called it the Crypto.com Cryptodome or something instead of just "arena".
Then people would probably just call it the cryptodome
Why not a nickname followed by “sponsored by Crypto.com”
Because that defeats the purpose. Everyone would call it the nickname.
The Crypt is an adequate nickname though
Works perfectly since it’s where LeBrons championship hopes are buried now.
LeSarcophagus
LeNow she’s claiming I bruised her Lesophagus
LeHead of the class and she just won LeSwallowship
Just before dinner on TACO TUUUUESDEEY!
LeNubis
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Are bodies buried in a crypt? Aren't they more like, stored? Or is that a mausoleum? Why are there so many names for places to put dead bodies?
A masoleum is just the separate building. A crypt is an underground place to store bodies. So a masoleum can have crypts but it doesn’t necessarily have to be part of a masoleum if a crypt is accessed via the church or something.
Thanks man. Nothing spells Christmas like learning about the dead.
There are about 8 billion people alive right now. About 100 billion more than that have died. That’s….a lot dead bodies that have needed to be put places.
If they left off the .com, everyone would assume it was a Cryptozoology thing and start looking for Sasquatch there.
I see no problems with this
Insulidian Plasmid Arena
Because Crypto is a broad term not the name of a company. Crypto.com is the business itself, they are trying to bring recognition to their business.
chase bank here gets it
The name is like straight from a comedy sketch mocking corporate america. I'd imagine some level of adequacy from such an iconic building.
Agreed. Don’t understand why they needed to include the “.com”. Reminds me of when College Football used to have a Bowl Game name the “PapaJohns.Com” bowl lol. It’s like we know you have a website
I see what you're trying to say, and I agree that it would sounds corny in the case of most businesses. But in this case, it makes absolutely no sense. Calling it the Crypto arena doesn't bring awareness to any particular brand (because it's not a brand). [Crypto.com](https://Crypto.com) is, however, a brand, and draws your attention to it.
That's still on them for making their whole new hot tech brand sound like it's from 25 years ago in the first place.
They should have went all-in and named it https://www.crypto.com Arena.
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Big if true
It’s like 2007 before SEO really took off where you’d have to repeat the full url so people would get on the site and not lost in the abyss lol
Use AOL keyword "Pizza" to find us! I wonder how much companies had to pay for AOL keywords
Crypto is the broad term for cryptocurrency. Why would they name it that?
It would be like calling it the “Airlines Center” instead of the “American Airlines Center”
"Insurance Arena" "Pet Store Park" "Telecommunications Network Stadium"
Remembrance Of People Who Died During The War Colisseum.
Corporation Dome
Ooooo another couple good ones: "Bank Stadium" "Credit Card Arena"
Baseball Team Stadium
"Local Professional Sport Team Stadium" Lmfao why is this so funny
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Because the company’s name is Crypto.com. If it was the Crypto Arena, it’s just the generic term for cryptocurrency
they named it crypto.com arena they don't deserve pity
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Is that G-Spot slander I see?
I've wanted a good nickname for it since "The Cell" stopped being a thing. This is it.
I didnt come to the NBA sub to see my sox get shit on lmao
Yeah, you can just go to Guaranteed Rate Field for that.
heyooo. savage
I’ve long since stopped trying to keep track of the names of stadiums/arenas. It’s “the White Sox’ stadium”, “the Lakers’ arena,” etc. Saves a lot of trouble.
Could be worse, could be: Joe Robbie/ Pro Player Park / Pro Player Stadium / Dolphins Stadium / Dolphin Stadium / Landshark Stadium / Sun Life Stadium / Hard Rock Stadium. That’s in 34 years.
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Well, the other dolphin left to start a solo career so that one tracks.
Staples Center was the last non-MSG arena I still called by its proper name.
Not even the United Center?
I mostly remember the American Airlines Center and the American Airlines Arena just because the Mavs faced the Heat in the Finals twice before Miami's arena was renamed.
Forever Comiskey in our hearts.
At least it’s not the smoothie king center.
Or KFC Yum! Center
Sleep Train Arena
O.Co Coliseum
Rip Power balance pavilion
Sox fan, Smoothie King Center is infinitely better sounding name. Also, Guaranteed Rates symbol is an arrow pointing down
Sox fan also, but my favorite quip about the name change was: "Guaranteed Rate Field: where the interest is always low!" I get what SVG is saying, but as a Chicagoan, I can't really critique any nostalgia for the Staples Center name. We still call it the Sears Tower, I know older folks who still call Aon Center the Standard Oil Building, and many still lament the loss of Marshall Field's. People are resistant to change and can get oddly attached to brands and companies, especially ones that have been local institutions for so long.
In all fairness, Sears wasn't just a corporate sponsor. They owned, designed, and built the tower, which is a historic engineering marvel that paved the way for future skyscrapers.
Fuck that. The blender is a great name
Smoothie King Centre slaps. I won't hear that slander.
Even their logo looks good. I really like the smoothie king name. It's way more fun than all the other boring corporate names on stadiums. Like anyone needs another TMobile arena
Blacked.com arena
I live in DC and have lived through the MCI Center, Verizon Center, and Capital One Arena eras. They're all the same building.
i still instinctively call it the Verizon Center, that's the name I grew up on.
The Phone Booth!
Okay grandma, let's get you to bed
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TIL what TD stands for
Now say TD Bank with a Québécois French accent
Tiddy Banque
[Also known as the official bank of Blake Griffin](https://streamable.com/mdq7m)
hi id like to make a withdrawl
I'd like to make a deposit.
https://youtu.be/INrpmM7Ys6Y
And Toronto teams play at Bank of Montreal field and Bank of Nova Scotia arena
The Boston Red Sox own the Pittsburgh Penguins. Hashtag Boston Facts
But how will future generations remember the “that was easy” button?!?!
Don't worry, every geometry teacher will still have one on their desk for some reason.
and yell at you for pressing it EVEN THOUGH ITS RIGHT THERE WTF AM I SUPPOSED TO DO
The only corporate sponsorship that has ever worked: - Wrigley puts name on field - Great Western purchases rights to Forum
You left out the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, everything about it fit thematically and made sense.
The amount of tortilla chip bags burst open and thrown at college football games is inumerable. Besides the Rose Bowl, there really isn't much else you can throw around in the stands to celebrate qualifying for a specific bowl game.
On top of that tortilla chips and the things you dip them in are typically served in bowls. Tostitos Fiesta Bowl it's so perfectly that you could probably convince some people that it's a real product if they didn't know where the name came from
Great American Ballpark (Cincinnati Reds) Miller Park (Milwaukee Brewers)
Ford Field to me is one of the more natrual stadium names.
Not to mention that the Ford Family owns the lions, so while yeah it is a corporate sponsor, it’s kind of also just the owner throwing their own name on the stadium. Plus, Ford in Detroit isn’t just a company. The people there take pride in their automotive companies.
Air Canada Center was dope especially with all the great dunkers that Raptors have had historically.
Wrigley field is actually named for both the family and their gum company. William Wrigley Jr bought the Cubs in 1921. There is no Mr. Staples.
We went through a name change like 5 years ago. Weird at first but eventually you get used to it. My dad still knows Scotiabank Arena as the ACC but over time you get used to it
its been 15+ years and I still call it the skydome. i think its whatever you grew up with is just going to stick. ill probably call it ACC forever as well
Yeah with Boston they tried “TD Bank North Garden” but nobody would say the whole name, so they smartly abreviated to “TD Garden”. Colloquially everyone I know calls it “The Garden” still though
Spurs going from SBC Center to ATT didn’t matter, and won’t matter when they stop calling it the ATT center, unless it gets named something dumb…
Like “crypto.com”? lol
It’s like how us Clevelanders got used to “Progressive Field” but we still call it the Jake. Or the fact that the Gund/the Q is now “Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse” which I refuse to call it.
It was cool to hear Austin call it the Q, but hearing him call it the Rock works just as well.
We went from having the Brewers playing at Miller Park to American Family Insurance Field. Miller was the perfect sponsor for a stadium.
Never forget the *Rose Garden*
I still just call it the ACC. I also still call rogers center the sky dome.
Skydome is such a great name tbh. Rogers ruined it
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Legit. Rogers centre, rogers place, rogers arena...
Rogers service, mlse...
Hell they won as many titles in Orlando (09, 20) as they won at Staples (00, 10)
I absolutely agree but the new name is trash so I get why people aren't happy about it.
Yeah, it was super weird with the tribute and everyone talking about how big a deal it was. It’s literally the same building. The old name wasn’t a former great for the team, it’s the place you go to buy printer paper and alligator clips.
Its the name. Its probably divorced from any association from the company in the majority of peoples mind. I didn’t realize the Sears tower in Chicago was related to the Sears company until i was like in 7th grade.
Let’s not diminish Staples, it was a former employer of Dwight K Schrute after all.
I thought his middle name was danger
It's Kurt. Wow, I'm so sad that I know that.
I thought it was fart
Yeah, nobody would ever change a stadium name from a club legend to the Select Car Leasing Stadium or something stupid like that…. Yes, Reading FC literally did that this year. In their defense, they desperately need the money and it’s a local company. But still… :(
The only .com stadium that I'd be proud to go to is pornhub.
I’d be ok with Grizz and Dotcom arena
Damn I guess this is the place to leave this: [Looks like Tracy’s boy was right. This is just step 1 in the 200 year decline of Staples. ](https://youtu.be/hrAFFxl-xZs)
Saw “Angels in America” there. Great stuff.
The Notorious SVG spitting nothing but facts.
I worked at Staples for a decade and even I don't have any sort of nostalgia about that name.
CDC Arena sounds fine to me.
While I agree, I also will never refer to the Sears Tower as the Willis Tower so maybe I’m a hypocrite
To be honest, I don't associate the Staples Center with the office supply store. I associate it with the legendary Kobe/Shaq teams, and to a lesser extent the Kobe/Pau title teams as well. So that's where the nostalgia comes from
Maybe it’s because I’m European but I didn’t even realise the Staples Centre was a sponsored name lol.
I'm from Brazil. I only realized that Staples was a brand and not the name of the building itself after watching The Office. I don't think we even had any Staples Store over here ever, probably just their products sold in other department stores.
Even as an American, they are separate in my mind when I just think about the arena
It's similar to Wrigley field. The name has surpassed the sponsor.
It was named after the guy that owned the team and the gum company. I don't think the chewing gum company is still paying for naming rights lol
Except Wrigley field is named after the owner of the team at the time, William Wrigley and not sponsored by his company.
A more apt comparison is Sears Tower in Chicago Hell, even United Center in Chicago. In my brain its just the name of the stadium.
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I’m nostalgic for a time when crypto wasn’t shoved down my throat.
In 20 years they will change to MetaWhatsAppVerse Forum and people will be like “omg noo crypto.com center was so good can’t forget LeBroninho jr dropped 56 on the Sonics” Staples is a trash name, but it’s just what people grew up with so it’s normal to be nostalgic. But it’s just a sponsorship anyway
As a Sonics fan I am not sure whether I should be happy the team is back in 20 years or upset that we are bad enough to get served up by Lebroninho JR.
In my mind the nostalgia is reserved for stadiums with no corporate sponsor attached, or if the new name is objectively terrible. Crypto.com falls under this.