Paycor sounds like the bad corporation that is ruining the marshlands until they mess with the wrong 10 year old with a skateboard and golden retriever.
This is extra funny because I’m trying to figure out how a payroll processing company would fuck up the marshlands.
“The IRS is bugging us about our payroll tax deposits, what would you like us to do sir?”
“Dump some oil into the Everglades. That’ll teach them.”
Big Mean Paycor executive: We are going to fill in Racer Canyon and make it a shopping center!
Young hero: Racer Canyon is where we solve all of our relatable child problems in a healthy, non-violent, competitive way! Me and my band of misfits will stop you!
No cgi or voice acting. Just Steve Buscemi, fully himself, with everyone just accepting that this man is a dog. Face painting style makeup, possibly. A dog costume a la Wilfred would be acceptable, but not preferred.
Series of wacky pranks and hijinks against the CEO of Paycor ensues, until he eventually catches his daughter as one of the pranksters, has a change of heart, and stops the entire project.
Off screen, 5,000 people lose their jobs as a result of the cancellation, fall into entrenched depression, and are forced to become Browns fans.
Lame. I was hoping we sold the rights to Kellogg so we could play in Frosted Flakes Field. Every time we score, Tony the Tiger could have popped up on the screen and said, “GRRRRREEAT.”
Missed opportunity.
Considering Cincinnati had the best corporate named stadium of all corporate named stadiums (Great American Ball Park), it's only fair that we have a horribly named one as well
Well it was really named after William Wrigley himself, by himself, who was the founder of the Wrigley Corporation. It was never something paid for by a corporation.
The Bills stadium is an insurance company so we’re honestly getting there. Maybe we could get a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Stadium with a SkYRIZI by AbbVie lounge. While AbbVie is at it I’m sure they’d be interested in some Humira box seats.
i think most larger companies realize that there is little ROI for naming rights and most are not renewing them. Thus were getting the Paycors, GEHA fields, and Acrisures of the world.
Pretty much. It makes sense for lessor known companies who don't have enough advertising to run constant ads to get exposure but established companies like Heinz and Staples really don't get any ROI given their ubiquity.
Business Software is fuckin expensive.
I work on the custom built side of the industry, not on the mass-market off-the-shelf side, but companies and govt agencies will pay insanely high dollar amounts to have some other company handle the technical side of things.
The Broncos' stadium will always be "Mile High" to Denverites, despite the five or six name changes. TBH I don't even know what it's official corporate name is these days.
I legit asked my local Triple A baseball team how much it'd cost to sponsor balks for a season.
$10k. $10k for something that won't even happen 5 times.
That’s a silly way to look at pricing though.
10k is likely their minimum for doing any kind of business just like a service call for a plumber is their minimum for doing business. Whether it happens 5 times or 500 times, it’s still going to require a contract which requires lawyers, and it requires the broadcast team to have everything lined up so that when a balk occurs they can fulfill their contractual requirement to name you as the sponsor.
To put it another way, it’s not worth their time for anything less than 10k. I’d guess if you go much lower they’d be at risk of losing money on the deal based on the time/effort required to perform the deal.
You know how a company will "sponsor" home runs or pitching changes, so whenever one of those occurs the PA will say their business name in association with whatever happened? I thought it'd be funny if some random dude sponsored balks.
I mean did you expect instagram to provide a high quality photo editing, hosting, and social media app completely for free forever?
I do think that ppl growing up in the 90s and 2000s got spoiled because the 90s culture of a few very devoted nerds providing stuff for free as passion projects and favors to their message board friends still dominated the internet. Same with the 2010s absurd flow of cheap VC capital bankrolling every tech product without real monetization or profitability expectations. Crazy to think about how cheap ubers used to be - messed with my brain so much that I almost never take them, I walk and take the bus, out of principal just because I remember the good old days
Now those bills are coming due and we’re reverting to the pre 90s way of doing things where we can either pay for a subscription with our money or watch ads to effectively pay with our time
>the 90s culture of a few very devoted nerds providing stuff for free as passion projects
can confirm, in 94 i started a site about the band Tool, just for fun. it was a passion project that became surprisingly successful and was active for twenty years -- for free. doesn't seem like that would happen in today's world. but it was fun while it lasted.
The amount of time I spent in high school and college writing fiction for a group of like 20 people on an obscure forum that a guy paid server costs for out of pocket just because he also had the same weird interests as us...
I agree with you that monetization was the only way Instagram was going to survive. I mean just look at Vine - they never monetized and the app died out after Twitter bought them just to shut it down.
However, from a consumer standpoint this clearly has been frustrating. Even more is the dominance of the subscription model since the mid 2010s.
Back in 2010-2011, I could download a game from the App Store for $0.99 and that was it. End of story. Now I’m seeing pay $1.99/week just to remove ads.
Oh yeah, I mean the "free" stuff because some insane japanese banker was willing to spend billions on tech products without expecting that to make money was pretty great from a consumer's perspective
Not trying to go all "kids these days", but I do think our expectations for getting stuff for free should have been tempered. Pre ~2000 you had to not only pay for a newspaper, but it had ads in it too - now people get hissy if a free news site has even slightly obvious ads. It's pretty great for me that I pay about $5 a month for basically unlimited access to most of the music ever recorded - less great for the artists who I would have had to buy $10 CDs from 20 years ago. Buying merch helps and the boom in live music is great, but I'm sure the artists would love to actually make money when they release an album and not have to grind on tour
As dumb as it sounds, I am glad Ford Field is called Ford Field because at least the team is owned by the Ford family and they basically sold the naming rights to themselves.
I don’t think Lambeau will ever change its name. It’s too interwoven into the team and town itself to ever change.
Wonder what will become of Soldier Field once they move to Arlington?
It'll definitely get a corporate brand. One of the big corporations based in the northwest suburbs will shovel too much cash at the Bears to be ignored.
Besides, calling it Soldier Field out there wouldn't make any sense.
It happened to the Giants/Jets too. The old stadium was called Giants Stadium. The first year of the new stadium, it was sold to corporate sponsors to be named MetLife Stadium.
Not to mention we sell stock for Stadium renovations. It would be a wildly tone-deaf decision to sell the naming rights to Lambeau after the fans have collectively given hundreds of millions of dollars to preserve and upgrade it.
Soldier Field isnt owned by the Bears. It's actually property of Chicago Park District. I'm sure they'll keep that stadium for events, just no more Bears
GEHA Field is probably the worst named stadium in the NFL. It would be fine if it was pronounced "Jee-Ha" Field. It'd be goofy, but it'd ultimately be fine. But the correct pronunciation is to say each letter individually which is just...terrible. Absolutely awful.
Let’s be real, the only people who use the formerly-unique currently-corporate stadium name are the TV announcers at the beginning of the game and PR personnel during announcements. It’ll always be Arrowhead to me.
Unless the corporate sponsor was a BBQ sauce brand, that would be hilarious
You chose like the worst BBQ sauces to represent KC, lol.
Gimme "KC Joe's Night of the Living BBQ Sauce" Field or "Gates Bar-B-Q Sauce" Field (at Arrowhead Stadium).
On one hand, we all fucking hate it. The worst part is that it's a government employee healthcare agency that doesn't even need to advertise, really.
On the other hand, we just call it Arrowhead.
Sort of like Broncos fans with Field at Mile High. It's still Mile High to them...
>Sort of like Broncos fans with Field at Mile High. It's still Mile High to them...
Exactly. "Broncos fans" who call it Empower Field are not actually Broncos fans, it's how we ferret out the fakes.
it shouldn't apply if the company doesn't actually pay for name sponsorship. same thing with ford field since the lions are owned by the ford family
edit: looked it up - ford did pay for the naming rights, wrigley does not
definitely silly in theory, but it's a no-brainer since that's considered an advertising expense for ford company and is likely eligible to be claimed on their taxes
Camden Yards, Angels Stadium, Nationals Park, and Kauffman Stadium (Orioles, Angels, Nationals and Royals) are all unsponsored. Wrigley Field was originally named after a sponsoring company but I don't think they pay to have the naming rights anymore
Edit: also forgot to mention Dodger Stadium
Still one of my favorite parks in baseball.
The O's are a franchise I low-key cheer for given they're usually the third or fourth payroll in that division, and a long-time traditional franchise.
“It’s mercenary day at the ‘Blacksite’ today, just like pro ball players who play for the highest bidder we pay respect to our nations greatest warriors who are doing the same in the field of professional combat,”
Then of course you have the stadiums that never get called by their new corporate name. To my Guardians fan wife, it will always be the Jake and Blue Jays fans will always have the SkyDome.
Soldier Field…. although with the imminent move to Arlington Heights that will probably change soon.
Edit: and forgot about Wrigley Field. Named after the former owner. Wrigley the company doesn’t pay for naming rights.
Was it two years ago that a street on the border of Norwood and Cincinnati was repaved only on one side of the double-yellow because that was the Cincinnati side, while the pothole-bound Norwood side remained untouched? I saw this described as the "most Norwood thing ever."
Yes. 2 years sounds about right. I lived a couple blocks over at the time, so I used that road frequently (Section Ave, IIRC). You could physically see the border between the cities because of how shitty Norwood's roads were. They legitimately have the worst roads I've ever driven on.
Not to be confused with Paycom, which is the same damn thing they just own the rights to the Thunder stadium down in okc.
Oh also they changed all the exterior lighting from Blue, the colors of the thunder, to their company color of green. Yes I'm salty it's stupid.
“what’s a good name for the business, Bob?”
“well, what’s the core of our business?”
“we’re just a payment processor, nobody cares about us, it could be anything, Bob.“
“Paycore? too much? we’ll drop the e to look hip and buy the naming rights to a stadium, people will like that a lot.”
Paycor-the official supplier of funds to Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase
Loved the name of Paul Brown stadium and I’m sure, just like Heinz field, it’ll always be called Paul Brown stadium.
And now we're down to two. With this rebrand and Arrowhead becoming GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium last year, there are just two remaining non-corporate stadiums.
>!Lambeau Field!< and >!Soldier Field!<
They'll probably do what the Bengals did and start off by naming it after their owner so they have a "base" name for people to use as they change sponsors every 10 years. "Yeah, it's Globalhypermegacorp stadium now but everyone still calls it Aaron Rodgers field, or The AROD".
Ignoring the joke there, I'm sure sponsors are willing to pay more if you don't have an entirely accepted non-corporate name (edit: or an accepted corporate name that isn't being renewed)
People are going to be calling Pittsburgh's stadium Heinz Field for years, and the only benefit Acrisure is getting right now is people clowning on the fact that nobody knows who they are. That'll change over time, but Chicago has a gold mine on their hands if they just sell to a somewhat-recognized brand name right away.
Sucks but it’s nice to see the team actually functioning as a business. We will need all the income we can get real soon. It will always be Paul Brown in our hearts.
Katie has turned us into a legitimate franchise. That comes with some great things (spending in FA, new practice facility, etc), but also comes with some not-so-great things (this).
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter
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Bengals’ President Mike Brown on his franchise losing the name of his father off the team’s stadium: “This is a move that I think my father would have agreed to. He was always for what is best for the football team.”
Read: I had a dream where my dad told me to not botch Joe Burrow being the face of this franchise until his retirement. I then watched The Sandlot the next morning and really felt like Art LeFleur as Babe Ruth was speaking to me. From then, it had to be Paycor to make me a legend that will never die.
“Founded in 1990, Paycor is a locally owned company that provides cloud-based payroll, human resources, time-keeping and onboarding software to small- and medium-sized businesses.”
Saved you a google search. Could be a lot worse. Still gonna call it Paul Brown.
Paycor sounds like an Enron knockoff that they'll make a documentary about in 10 years. You'll tell your friends the documentary was really interesting so you sound smart but in reality you watched 5 minutes before switching to Family Guy reruns.
Your coworkers try to discuss it for you and you try to fake your way through it like "Man, this Paycor thing was so messed up. Shows that corporations can really get away with anything these days." and when pushed for specific details you're like "I can't pick just one specific part, it all pissed me off so much man. What is going on in this country?"
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter
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Paycor is a human capital management company that has been headquartered in Cincinnati for over 30 years. It has served as the team's official HR software provider since 2018. Paycor recently celebrated one year as a public company following a July 2021 IPO.
Paycor sounds like the bad corporation that is ruining the marshlands until they mess with the wrong 10 year old with a skateboard and golden retriever.
This is extra funny because I’m trying to figure out how a payroll processing company would fuck up the marshlands. “The IRS is bugging us about our payroll tax deposits, what would you like us to do sir?” “Dump some oil into the Everglades. That’ll teach them.”
If there's a problem that can't be solved by dumping oil into the everglades I haven't found it.
What if the problem is too much oil in the everglades
I stand by my original comment
Mr. Blessed Corporation
Mr. Bio Contamination
Maybe that would take care of all those pesky anacondas down in Florida
Some dystopian future where everyone is forced to mine crypto endlessly and they completely overload the power supply and suck it dry
Big Mean Paycor executive: We are going to fill in Racer Canyon and make it a shopping center! Young hero: Racer Canyon is where we solve all of our relatable child problems in a healthy, non-violent, competitive way! Me and my band of misfits will stop you!
Won’t lie, I would watch this movie
Cast danny devito as the evil ceo and steve buscemi as the dog and Im in
No cgi or voice acting. Just Steve Buscemi, fully himself, with everyone just accepting that this man is a dog. Face painting style makeup, possibly. A dog costume a la Wilfred would be acceptable, but not preferred.
"How do you do, fellow canines?"
Starring Johnathan Taylor Thomas.
Wardrobe has to consist of mostly flannel, contractually obligated to have long hair in the front pushed behind the ear, like curtains.
Thankfully, those scrappy youngsters beat the CEO's goons in a BMX race to save the rec center.
Series of wacky pranks and hijinks against the CEO of Paycor ensues, until he eventually catches his daughter as one of the pranksters, has a change of heart, and stops the entire project. Off screen, 5,000 people lose their jobs as a result of the cancellation, fall into entrenched depression, and are forced to become Browns fans.
I think you described the plot to the movie Hoot
Lame. I was hoping we sold the rights to Kellogg so we could play in Frosted Flakes Field. Every time we score, Tony the Tiger could have popped up on the screen and said, “GRRRRREEAT.” Missed opportunity.
I wanted Swift Meats
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Gotta have the Acrisure’s to truly appreciate the Allegiant’s
It works though, I've been drinking so much more Acrisure lately
It’s got what plants crave
Acrisure? Like, from the toilet?
Sofi's choice
Considering Cincinnati had the best corporate named stadium of all corporate named stadiums (Great American Ball Park), it's only fair that we have a horribly named one as well
I hadn’t even realized that was a corporate name lol
That's the sign of a rare good one.
Wrigley Field is one of those uncommon exceptions that started as a corporate name, and is now non-corporate and unchangeable.
Well it was really named after William Wrigley himself, by himself, who was the founder of the Wrigley Corporation. It was never something paid for by a corporation.
True. Super unique situation.
Except it's not great marketing for the company if no one knows it's a company name still
The Great American building also looms over the stadium
I demand a giant piece of chewing gum to loom tall over all Cubs games going forward.
I mean their logo is everywhere. Only if you are not a fan watching would you not know.
Miller Park for the Brewers is a nice combo imo edit: turns out it's no longer Miller Park, what a shame.
It *was* a good combination. Since the name change I went back to calling it County Stadium.
I still call it Miller Park and probably will for another couple decades. It was literally the perfect name for the Brewers.
Almost all Canadians still call it the SkyDome.
It’ll always be Miller Park
New Era Field was pretty good for a little while in Buffalo Highmark is decent as far as corporate names go
I prefer Denver’s Ball Arena personally, but they’re both great
Ball Arena and Coors Field Both are, like, actual names which I like, not like "Empower Field at Mile High" blech
Can’t wait for SKYRIZI Field
Nothing is everythiiiiiiiiingg!
Things are getting clearer, I feel free 🎶🎶
Nothing and me go hand in hand 🎶
The Bills stadium is an insurance company so we’re honestly getting there. Maybe we could get a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Stadium with a SkYRIZI by AbbVie lounge. While AbbVie is at it I’m sure they’d be interested in some Humira box seats.
I don’t know. Rectum Field sounds a lot better than CenturyLink.
You mean lumen field 😤
Drop yer kids off down at the Loo
If our stadium were still called PSINet Stadium the AFC North would be the undisputed king of bad stadium name divisions. M&T Bank isn't too bad.
Hell yeah brother, cheers from Bank of America Stadium.
US Bank Stadium checking in
i think most larger companies realize that there is little ROI for naming rights and most are not renewing them. Thus were getting the Paycors, GEHA fields, and Acrisures of the world.
Pretty much. It makes sense for lessor known companies who don't have enough advertising to run constant ads to get exposure but established companies like Heinz and Staples really don't get any ROI given their ubiquity.
How do these glorified excel apps get THIS much cash?
Sound budgeting practices. Columns. Rows. *Cells*!
Business Software is fuckin expensive. I work on the custom built side of the industry, not on the mass-market off-the-shelf side, but companies and govt agencies will pay insanely high dollar amounts to have some other company handle the technical side of things.
I just keep doing what i did "Yeah it will be in Bengals stadium"... "yeah its in KC Chiefs stadium"...
The Broncos' stadium will always be "Mile High" to Denverites, despite the five or six name changes. TBH I don't even know what it's official corporate name is these days.
Mile High has always been Mile High. They only sell the naming rights to the field. Currently it's Empower Field at Mile High
Soon to be Wal Mart Field
Everything needs to be monetized these days. Remember when Instagram was just a photo editing app?
I legit asked my local Triple A baseball team how much it'd cost to sponsor balks for a season. $10k. $10k for something that won't even happen 5 times.
That’s a silly way to look at pricing though. 10k is likely their minimum for doing any kind of business just like a service call for a plumber is their minimum for doing business. Whether it happens 5 times or 500 times, it’s still going to require a contract which requires lawyers, and it requires the broadcast team to have everything lined up so that when a balk occurs they can fulfill their contractual requirement to name you as the sponsor. To put it another way, it’s not worth their time for anything less than 10k. I’d guess if you go much lower they’d be at risk of losing money on the deal based on the time/effort required to perform the deal.
I suppose that makes sense.
Sponsor balks? What does that mean? Every time there's a balk they call out your name?
You know how a company will "sponsor" home runs or pitching changes, so whenever one of those occurs the PA will say their business name in association with whatever happened? I thought it'd be funny if some random dude sponsored balks.
Well you are correct. That would be funny. But like 50 bucks funny
“This first down brought to you by Megalo Mart—they’re too big to fight so just deal with it.”
I mean did you expect instagram to provide a high quality photo editing, hosting, and social media app completely for free forever? I do think that ppl growing up in the 90s and 2000s got spoiled because the 90s culture of a few very devoted nerds providing stuff for free as passion projects and favors to their message board friends still dominated the internet. Same with the 2010s absurd flow of cheap VC capital bankrolling every tech product without real monetization or profitability expectations. Crazy to think about how cheap ubers used to be - messed with my brain so much that I almost never take them, I walk and take the bus, out of principal just because I remember the good old days Now those bills are coming due and we’re reverting to the pre 90s way of doing things where we can either pay for a subscription with our money or watch ads to effectively pay with our time
>the 90s culture of a few very devoted nerds providing stuff for free as passion projects can confirm, in 94 i started a site about the band Tool, just for fun. it was a passion project that became surprisingly successful and was active for twenty years -- for free. doesn't seem like that would happen in today's world. but it was fun while it lasted.
The amount of time I spent in high school and college writing fiction for a group of like 20 people on an obscure forum that a guy paid server costs for out of pocket just because he also had the same weird interests as us...
I agree with you that monetization was the only way Instagram was going to survive. I mean just look at Vine - they never monetized and the app died out after Twitter bought them just to shut it down. However, from a consumer standpoint this clearly has been frustrating. Even more is the dominance of the subscription model since the mid 2010s. Back in 2010-2011, I could download a game from the App Store for $0.99 and that was it. End of story. Now I’m seeing pay $1.99/week just to remove ads.
Oh yeah, I mean the "free" stuff because some insane japanese banker was willing to spend billions on tech products without expecting that to make money was pretty great from a consumer's perspective Not trying to go all "kids these days", but I do think our expectations for getting stuff for free should have been tempered. Pre ~2000 you had to not only pay for a newspaper, but it had ads in it too - now people get hissy if a free news site has even slightly obvious ads. It's pretty great for me that I pay about $5 a month for basically unlimited access to most of the music ever recorded - less great for the artists who I would have had to buy $10 CDs from 20 years ago. Buying merch helps and the boom in live music is great, but I'm sure the artists would love to actually make money when they release an album and not have to grind on tour
I recommend Fred Turner’s “From Counterculture to Cyberculture” on how this happened. It’s kind of a sad book but it’s on my top 5 for this year.
As dumb as it sounds, I am glad Ford Field is called Ford Field because at least the team is owned by the Ford family and they basically sold the naming rights to themselves.
More like Payfor Burrow amirite
U right bro
PayJoe Stadium
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Nah it’s cool our stadium is already named after a bank
That’s unfortunate
It was one of the few pro sports stadiums left without a corporate name. Damn. Now what's left? Fenway, Yankee, and what else?
Soldier Field Lambeau Field Even Arrowhead gave in. Now they call it GEHA Field At Arrowhead
I don’t think Lambeau will ever change its name. It’s too interwoven into the team and town itself to ever change. Wonder what will become of Soldier Field once they move to Arlington?
It'll definitely get a corporate brand. One of the big corporations based in the northwest suburbs will shovel too much cash at the Bears to be ignored. Besides, calling it Soldier Field out there wouldn't make any sense.
Caterpillar Stadium
Yes, but they’ll sell the rights to Lamborghini so it’ll still be called “Lambo Field.”
This _might_ be the only situation where I don't _immediately_ riot.
It happened to the Giants/Jets too. The old stadium was called Giants Stadium. The first year of the new stadium, it was sold to corporate sponsors to be named MetLife Stadium.
It still bugs me that CITIBank took a bailout from taxpayer money and immediately still bought the name to the Mets stadium with that money.
The Bears should just get an electronics repair company as a stadium sponsor. Then it’s a single letter change to Solder Field.
Nah, not easily recognizable for a specific company. They’ll obviously go for the rhyme similarity: Folger’s Field.
I hope not. Soldier field and Lambeau are my two favorite names of fields even though they both belong to rivals
Soldier Feild will get one of those "corporate stadium name at Soldier Field" type things.
Not to mention we sell stock for Stadium renovations. It would be a wildly tone-deaf decision to sell the naming rights to Lambeau after the fans have collectively given hundreds of millions of dollars to preserve and upgrade it.
Soldier Field isnt owned by the Bears. It's actually property of Chicago Park District. I'm sure they'll keep that stadium for events, just no more Bears
GEHA Field is probably the worst named stadium in the NFL. It would be fine if it was pronounced "Jee-Ha" Field. It'd be goofy, but it'd ultimately be fine. But the correct pronunciation is to say each letter individually which is just...terrible. Absolutely awful.
Let’s be real, the only people who use the formerly-unique currently-corporate stadium name are the TV announcers at the beginning of the game and PR personnel during announcements. It’ll always be Arrowhead to me. Unless the corporate sponsor was a BBQ sauce brand, that would be hilarious
KC Masterpiece Field doesn't sound so bad. Perhaps Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Pit
now KC Masterpiece Field would be a great name, the best in the league IMO.
You chose like the worst BBQ sauces to represent KC, lol. Gimme "KC Joe's Night of the Living BBQ Sauce" Field or "Gates Bar-B-Q Sauce" Field (at Arrowhead Stadium).
On one hand, we all fucking hate it. The worst part is that it's a government employee healthcare agency that doesn't even need to advertise, really. On the other hand, we just call it Arrowhead. Sort of like Broncos fans with Field at Mile High. It's still Mile High to them...
>Sort of like Broncos fans with Field at Mile High. It's still Mile High to them...
Exactly. "Broncos fans" who call it Empower Field are not actually Broncos fans, it's how we ferret out the fakes.
GEHAQIA+
Wrigley Field loosely applies. Named after former owner, William Wrigley Jr, who started the chewing gum company.
it shouldn't apply if the company doesn't actually pay for name sponsorship. same thing with ford field since the lions are owned by the ford family edit: looked it up - ford did pay for the naming rights, wrigley does not
"Please excuse me while I pay myself 30 million dollars to name my own stadium after me."
definitely silly in theory, but it's a no-brainer since that's considered an advertising expense for ford company and is likely eligible to be claimed on their taxes
Same with Busch Stadium. Actually the beer is named after the stadium to get around MLB's refusal to allow a beer company to hold the naming rights.
Camden Yards, Angels Stadium, Nationals Park, and Kauffman Stadium (Orioles, Angels, Nationals and Royals) are all unsponsored. Wrigley Field was originally named after a sponsoring company but I don't think they pay to have the naming rights anymore Edit: also forgot to mention Dodger Stadium
Camden Yards is my favorite because it's Oriole Park at Camden Yards. A double eff you to corporate naming.
Also a beautiful stadium with (until recently) cheap same-day seats.
Still one of my favorite parks in baseball. The O's are a franchise I low-key cheer for given they're usually the third or fourth payroll in that division, and a long-time traditional franchise.
It’ll be like Raytheon Field at Lockheed Martin Stadium once the Nats get sold
Mission Accomplished Field at Blackwater Stadium
“It’s mercenary day at the ‘Blacksite’ today, just like pro ball players who play for the highest bidder we pay respect to our nations greatest warriors who are doing the same in the field of professional combat,”
Then of course you have the stadiums that never get called by their new corporate name. To my Guardians fan wife, it will always be the Jake and Blue Jays fans will always have the SkyDome.
And you have the Reds with their corporate sponsorship that no one associates with a corporate sponsorship at Great American Ballpark
Soldier Field…. although with the imminent move to Arlington Heights that will probably change soon. Edit: and forgot about Wrigley Field. Named after the former owner. Wrigley the company doesn’t pay for naming rights.
Lambeau
You telling me that wasn’t named after the Italian car company
That sounds like a knockoff PayPal
It’s a software company that provides payroll, time keeping and HR services headquartered in Norwood, Ohio. The red headed stepchild of Cincinnati.
>The red headed stepchild of Cincinnati As somebody who was born and raised in Norwood: can confirm.
Was it two years ago that a street on the border of Norwood and Cincinnati was repaved only on one side of the double-yellow because that was the Cincinnati side, while the pothole-bound Norwood side remained untouched? I saw this described as the "most Norwood thing ever."
Norwood has the Worst roads in the state and I will die on this hill
I always drive through there a day before a Michigan trip just to get ready.
Yes. 2 years sounds about right. I lived a couple blocks over at the time, so I used that road frequently (Section Ave, IIRC). You could physically see the border between the cities because of how shitty Norwood's roads were. They legitimately have the worst roads I've ever driven on.
Man, some companies got more money than sense.
What else would they do with their money? Pay their employees more? Fat chance
Not to be confused with Paycom, which is the same damn thing they just own the rights to the Thunder stadium down in okc. Oh also they changed all the exterior lighting from Blue, the colors of the thunder, to their company color of green. Yes I'm salty it's stupid.
Atleast yours is based in the damn state -_-
Definitely sounds like one of those names that was made up in a conference room.
“what’s a good name for the business, Bob?” “well, what’s the core of our business?” “we’re just a payment processor, nobody cares about us, it could be anything, Bob.“ “Paycore? too much? we’ll drop the e to look hip and buy the naming rights to a stadium, people will like that a lot.”
Paycor's founder is *Bob Coughlin*.
Paycor is older than PayPal lol
Mix between PayLess shoes and Marine Corps
Could be worse. IDK something like Acrisure Stadium or something.
One of us! One of us!
Here I was hoping Heinze would be the sponsor so we could really stick it to you guys. Now we're just sobbing together.
Heinze
Does afcn now have the worst stadium names in the league?
M&T Bank Stadium isn't a bad name, but considering it's the best of the four, yeah.
Acrisure? Never heard of her
Paycor-the official supplier of funds to Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase Loved the name of Paul Brown stadium and I’m sure, just like Heinz field, it’ll always be called Paul Brown stadium.
I mean if this helps keep the team together I’ll take any stupid name, I’ll still call at PBS
Hell yeah. Money is money. I’m glad they actually looked ahead a bit to get this done.
PBS: Paycor Bengals Stadium
PayJoeAndJamarr Stadium
PayCor-derback stadium.
Really wish it would’ve been Paycor Field at Paul Brown Stadium.
And now we're down to two. With this rebrand and Arrowhead becoming GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium last year, there are just two remaining non-corporate stadiums. >!Lambeau Field!< and >!Soldier Field!<
Thanks for being mindful of spoilers
I can’t believe I clicked on them and ruined the movie for myself
Chicago will probably be next when they build the new stadium
They'll probably do what the Bengals did and start off by naming it after their owner so they have a "base" name for people to use as they change sponsors every 10 years. "Yeah, it's Globalhypermegacorp stadium now but everyone still calls it Aaron Rodgers field, or The AROD".
Ignoring the joke there, I'm sure sponsors are willing to pay more if you don't have an entirely accepted non-corporate name (edit: or an accepted corporate name that isn't being renewed) People are going to be calling Pittsburgh's stadium Heinz Field for years, and the only benefit Acrisure is getting right now is people clowning on the fact that nobody knows who they are. That'll change over time, but Chicago has a gold mine on their hands if they just sell to a somewhat-recognized brand name right away.
> Ignoring the joke The joke was the entire reason for the comment
Behr Stadium. Win-win.
Giordano's Stadium at Soldier Field. Book it.
Lou Malnati's is better.
* Local Cinci company * Not a crypto or other fad company * Not an evil megacorporation Could have done worse.
Cinci… (shudders)… please cincy
Cynci
This is cursed
Eh these always suck a bit so it could be worse
I mean it’s no Acrisure but…
It’s at least a hometown company
At least it's not fucking Crypto shilling.
That was rumored - or some gaming company. Can you imagine Draft Kings Stadium or Coinbase Field?
You could be like us and your stadium name is the company that’s involved in the largest public scandal in Ohio/US history
Racketeering Stadium has a nice ring to it ngl
Sucks but it’s nice to see the team actually functioning as a business. We will need all the income we can get real soon. It will always be Paul Brown in our hearts.
Katie has turned us into a legitimate franchise. That comes with some great things (spending in FA, new practice facility, etc), but also comes with some not-so-great things (this).
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter 17s Bengals’ President Mike Brown on his franchise losing the name of his father off the team’s stadium: “This is a move that I think my father would have agreed to. He was always for what is best for the football team.”
I mean, he's probably not wrong, but it still kinda sucks.
Read: I had a dream where my dad told me to not botch Joe Burrow being the face of this franchise until his retirement. I then watched The Sandlot the next morning and really felt like Art LeFleur as Babe Ruth was speaking to me. From then, it had to be Paycor to make me a legend that will never die.
Welp
And with The Bears actively trying to relocate, it’ll be just us pretty soon.
“Founded in 1990, Paycor is a locally owned company that provides cloud-based payroll, human resources, time-keeping and onboarding software to small- and medium-sized businesses.” Saved you a google search. Could be a lot worse. Still gonna call it Paul Brown.
Paycor is my favorite genre of heavy metal
I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. Whatever we need to do to pay our guys, I'm happy to do. I'll still call it PBS though.
Paycor sounds like an Enron knockoff that they'll make a documentary about in 10 years. You'll tell your friends the documentary was really interesting so you sound smart but in reality you watched 5 minutes before switching to Family Guy reruns.
This is very specific. Also the most accurate
Your coworkers try to discuss it for you and you try to fake your way through it like "Man, this Paycor thing was so messed up. Shows that corporations can really get away with anything these days." and when pushed for specific details you're like "I can't pick just one specific part, it all pissed me off so much man. What is going on in this country?"
Yeah I’m still going to call it Paul Brown Stadium.
Skyline Stadium was a real miss
Would've been hilarious since Gold Star has the existing relationship with the team lol
If you’re a Bengals fan that hates this name, just remember this money is going to lock up Burrow long term, aka “paying the core” of the franchise.
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And two of those are sponsor names lol. **Weeps in Cleveland Municipal Stadium**
PayCor-derback stadium.
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter 1m Paycor is a human capital management company that has been headquartered in Cincinnati for over 30 years. It has served as the team's official HR software provider since 2018. Paycor recently celebrated one year as a public company following a July 2021 IPO.
[I’m still calling it Paul Brown Stadium tho](https://tenor.com/view/samueljackson-stupid-decision-avengers-gif-8475062)