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Detroit Red Wings new downtown arena to be called Little Caesars Arena
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WickedCobra03
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San Jose Sharks rink is called "The Shark Tank", but even SAP Center isn't a terrible name. Sponsoring names are okay, as long as they are decent.
Freaking "Sports Authority at Mile High Field" is stupid and happy they went bankrupt.
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Sibersk Esto
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Let's not forget that the scumbag Illitch family is worth $5 billion, but needed to fuck Detroit over for $280 million in taxpayer money for this. In a city that has no money to finance its schools, or a lot of other stuff. And the Illitch family keeps every cent the building makes, despite the public paying for a big chunk of it.
Because the Joe Louis was a piece of shit stadium and is a popular venue for concerts and such.
Imbarkus
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Wait til the company that blows all that dough goes out of business. Fun. Invesco. Sports Authority. Now we got a measure on the ballet to just insist that "Mile High" is in there somewhere.
Can't wait to see those NBA uniform ad spaces too. Welcome to Ferenginar.
Can't wait to see those NBA uniform ad spaces too. Welcome to Ferenginar.
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A much more respectable Detroit brand than General Motors.
shira
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I used to think the old arena was named after one of those, so the new one being named after pizza doesn't seem that weird.
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I guess they could change the name anytime the Montreal Canadiens play at the arena.
http://littlecaesars.com/OurMenu/SignatureFavorites/MobileCaesarWings.aspx
OT: The name is awful. The name of the arena has actually taken some excitement out of my sails about the new arena. Going to games there is going to feel weird with this name.
tiggerkiddo
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Funny thing is they are the SECOND, yes second company who bought the naming rights to the stadium that went bankrupt. Companies better avoid buying those naming rights asap, maybe we can have it just as Mile High.
Anyways, Ceaser's Arena would have been so much cooler.
CarpeDeezNutz
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Yeah, this is just like Etihad paying for the Man City stadium stadium/kit rights. Or the Rogers Centre. Doesn't mean much of anything when the money is coming in from the owners of the damn team lol. Except as an obvious way to promote their brand. And Little Caesers arena is par for the course and no more or less offensive than any other branded arena out there. Is it any better than the Sleep Train Arena? Or the KFC Yum! Center?
Remember Pink Taco wanted the naming rights? Wasn't another local spot gonna get the naming rights?
DrForester
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Shitty pizza for a shitty team.
Yeah and isn't their basketball arena sponsored by KFC as well?
NoblesseOblige
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There are still several hundred thousand dollar condos in Detroit. Not sure why you would think otherwise when there are large HQs such as GM in the city. It's mostly the surrounding area that you find abandoned homes in.
This is a perfect time to reference my tag and an article this week from the Detroit Free Press about rising housing prices in Detroit.
Unfortunately the Colosseum at Caesars exists right across the Detroit River in Windsor, ON.
This was my thinking. They were all over in the early 90s and then seemingly everyone near went out of business and skip ten years into the future when I'm in college and several pop up and now they are all over again. Pretty impressive turn around.
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UltimaPooh
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So glad most of our stadiums in KC aren't named after corporations.
CrazedArabMan
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A lot of these posts make it sound like they are unaware that the owner of the Red Wings is the owner of Little Caesars Pizza. Not much to the name really. Tough shit it doesn't get an original name but there isn't anything oddball about it being named after something that the owner owns.
There are already youth teams named Little Caesars and Bell Tire for example. Local shit.
They sponsor said teams because their owners, Mike Ilitch and his family own both the Pizza Chain and said teams.
PHOENIXZERO
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Well, the Red Wings are owned by the founder of Little Caesars to it's not that surprising.
UltimaPooh
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Royals are owned by the former CEO of Walmart... and they don't call it the Walmart Park.
Bubbavelli
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They really dropped the ball by not using "Hockey Hockey" anywhere
Well Walmart is hated by millions of people so it isn't necessarily worth putting that name on the stadium. Nobody really gets riled up over pizza unless it was some kind of Chik-Fill-A situation where for a short time people are concerned socially and then eventually forget again.
That would have nothing to do with Walmart naming a stadium. There is a Target Field.
Target gets pats on its backs for being the "progressive" everything store though no? The whole bathroom thing with them just happened. Not much hate for them.
Is there a Bank of America stadium? They get shit on a lot. EDIT: I guess there is. Poor Carolina Panthers. But that's nearly the south so they probably don't mind such a patriotic stadium. I kid I kid.
I guess all I'm trying to say is that any name other than Walmart isn't going to cause a massive uproar.
lazybones18
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what a damn shame
People hate Target because of the bathroom thing.
Walmart wouldn't cause an uproar for anything other than it being a dumb stadium name.
I think the Minnesota Timberwolves play in the Target Center. Or they used to.
So Target has a thing about promoting shitty Minnesota sports teams, lol.
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