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Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
« Reply #5 on: Jun 20th, 2006, 5:42am » |
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I think this also could have been posted on the "'Bad News' for the NFL" thread... From a LOCAL source on "The REAL Feed":
Pro Football: Giants and Jets Move to Sell Stadium Name
New York Times: Sports (19.06.2006 23:30)
The teams took a step toward marketing stadium naming rights Monday by tapping the Wasserman Media Group to sell them.
What does this say about our (capitalist) economy? After (the money runs out from) selling the rights to stadium names, what gets sold (out) next (in our insatiable capitalist America)? I think it won't be long before we start seeing corporate logos on jerseys... We're within a decade or two. And, then, after that...??? Where does it end? Does it end? Can it ever be reversed? Anyway, yeah for free-market America... Can we pump out a few more MBA's and marketing majors, please (not that they are really the main ones to blame; the marketers are just the pawns)? But, hey, (in light of the 20-spots that roll in here all the time  ) if Nike wants to give me buko denero for an ad here or if the Broncos wouldn't mind my slapping a phat "FantasyFootballer.com" along the front of their jerseys,... I say, "Show me the paperwork!" I'm just a product of the system, after all (like those who turn a blind eye to the times I rattle the tin cup, being forced to beg for help paying the bills). It would eliminate my having to humiliate myself and rattling that tin cup begging for 20-spots. ... And, the "bigger picture" (that mystifies oh so many) gets painted yet again. 
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Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
« Reply #7 on: Jun 20th, 2006, 4:56pm » |
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I hear ya, Phil... I 'spose I don't care about that side of things, either. I guess what I am more so suggesting regards the finances... How much of all this selling (out... in some people's minds) and making people walking billboards on which to tack ads is providing "necessary" revenue? (I digress... I mean... the nature of auto racing kind of lent itself to advertising in this way... The whole plastering everything with ads ultimately came from using the "car" as a billboard, which seems reasonable, especially given the repetitive, "around-and-around" nature of the sport, which makes for effective advertising) And, if it is "necessary", what happens when all the "board space" runs out? ... Just something to think about,...  isn't there a "sell your soul" element to it all (that might just creep up on us and bite us (i.e. our children, children's children, and so on) in the ass... in a way that we fervently warn about when it comes to water and energy conservation, but perhaps much worse)???
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Re: New Jersey Giants & New Jersey Jets
« Reply #8 on: Jun 20th, 2006, 5:19pm » |
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Years ago some business-book-du-jour instructed businesses to avoid using the owner's initials as a business name because a set of initials was very forgettable (unless you make it into something, like IBM, I guess). In that same way, I'm always having trouble remembering just where the heck these billboard stadiums are.
So I have a simple proposition for the NFL. No business is allowed to buy naming rights to any stadium unless they have a name appropriate to the football mindset. For instance, Candlestick is what I always think, but Monster Park works. 
(Edit: Insert your favorite 49er joke here.)
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