Renaming Safeco Field

[The Roflcopter]

home of the m's

since safeco was bought out by Liberty Mutual, what should it be named now??

[nymdan]

Monfried said Safeco would retain its 85-year-old brand name and continue selling policies through its national network of agents and brokers. He also said Seattle's baseball stadium would remain known as Safeco Field.
http://www.komotv.com/news/local/18040924.html

[Aviator_Frank]

How about The Mute. :rofl:

Oh man, here we go again. Another stadium rebadging. Of all the corporate names I liked Safeco and Wrigley Fields the best. They had nice rings to them and pretty soon they'll both be gone.

[efin98]

How about The Mute. :rofl:

Oh man, here we go again. Another stadium rebadging. Of all the corporate names I liked Safeco and Wrigley Fields the best. They had nice rings to them and pretty soon they'll both be gone.

Great American not one of your favorite sounding corporate names? :confused:

[JohnCropp]

home of the m's

since safeco was bought out by Liberty Mutual, what should it be named now??

"Mariner's Field."

... or maybe "New Kingdome." :)

Of all the corporate names I liked Safeco and Wrigley Fields the best. They had nice rings to them and pretty soon they'll both be gone.

Then keep calling them Safeco and Wrigley. New Comiskey is still New Comiskey to me and everyone knows where I'm talking about when I call it that.

Great American not one of your favorite sounding corporate names?

I love that name. Corporate naming rights don't bother me when the name doesn't sound like a corporate name. Safeco and Enron never bothered me because I've never heard those names so they are on par with Fenway, Wrigley, Busch, Shea, etc. in my opinion. A word that means nothing but the title of the stadium as far as I'm concerned. It's the Minute Maids, PNCs, AT&Ts, Petcos, etc. that annoy me because they sound unnatural. I mean, "PNC?" That's not even a name. That's three letters!

Which is why the new Mets ballpark will be "City Field" to me, because it will nothing to do with a bank and everything to do with the place it represents.

[Aviator_Frank]

Great American not one of your favorite sounding corporate names? :confused:

Forgot that one. Yes it's a good one. Back when Jerry Buss struck a deal with Great Western to add their name to The Forum I thought that was kinda neat too since it was in effect, a great forum in the west that was aptly named. Some corporate names aren't half bad.

Then, there's the Quicken Loans Arena.

[MarcianoNY]

Maybe they can get this guy to be their new mascot.

[Williamsburg2599]

Maybe they can get this guy to be their new mascot.

Him running over Coco Crisp on an ATV would be a lot less funny.

[CitiFieldIsNoShea]

Forgot that one. Yes it's a good one. Back when Jerry Buss struck a deal with Great Western to add their name to The Forum I thought that was kinda neat too since it was in effect, a great forum in the west that was aptly named. Some corporate names aren't half bad.

Then, there's the Quicken Loans Arena.

I never even realized that the Great Western Forum was a corporate name. Well it now ranks up there with Great American Ballpark as best corporately named facilities in professional sports.

[LetsGoMets687]

I never even realized that the Great Western Forum was a corporate name.

I believe it was one of, if not the first, naming rights deal in pro sports.

[Urbanshocker13]

How about Liberty Field?:shrug: That's not that bad.

[Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock]

Maybe they can get this guy to be their new mascot.

http://www.baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=40990&stc=1&d=1209323762

Wilfred Brimley Field. It's got a nice ring to it.

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

How about Olympic National Park? :rofl:

If the Mariners acquire Mussina next season or trade for him this year, they have some wild life as well. Perfect fit.

[Urbanshocker13]

http://www.baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=40990&stc=1&d=1209323762

Wilfred Brimley Field. It's got a nice ring to it.

How abot "Di-Ah-Beet-US" park!

[Aviator_Frank]

I believe it was one of, if not the first, naming rights deal in pro sports.

The Arco Arena in Sacramento (Kings basketball) might've been before GW, but they were definitely one of the earliest of the contemporary corporate sponsorship rage.

[BenHertz]

Playtex Field

[JWB13]

Forgot that one. Yes it's a good one. Back when Jerry Buss struck a deal with Great Western to add their name to The Forum I thought that was kinda neat too since it was in effect, a great forum in the west that was aptly named. Some corporate names aren't half bad.

I agree about Great Western Forum. I had no idea that was a corporate name until a year or so later.

Then, there's the Quicken Loans Arena.

And don't forget jobing.com Arena http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/JWB13/puke.gif

[Seattle1]

http://www.komotv.com/news/local/18040924.html


From that article:

Monfried said Safeco would retain its 85-year-old brand name and continue selling policies through its national network of agents and brokers. He also said Seattle's baseball stadium would remain known as Safeco Field.

"I can not imagine a scenario where the name 'Safeco Field' would go away," Monfried said.


Having posted that, I would still love it to be named Mariners Stadium.

[Gary Dunaier]

"PNC?" That's not even a name. That's three letters!

In stamp collecting, PNC also refers to "plate number coils," (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_number_coil) tiny numbers that appear on the bottom of some stamps that come in rolls.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/Stamp_US_1996_PNC_big-700px.jpg/500px-Stamp_US_1996_PNC_big-700px.jpg

In a small handful of cases, the presence of certain numbers on the bottom of certain stamps can increase the collectors' value of a stamp a thousandfold! (Don't get too excited - you've got greater odds of someone handing you a free ticket to sit in the front row, behind home plate, at your favorite ballpark than you've got of coming across one of those stamps.)

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

In the slim chance that it happens, what numbers might those be?? :think:

[aqib]

Forgot that one. Yes it's a good one. Back when Jerry Buss struck a deal with Great Western to add their name to The Forum I thought that was kinda neat too since it was in effect, a great forum in the west that was aptly named. Some corporate names aren't half bad.

Then, there's the Quicken Loans Arena.

Yeah but its not like Gund was all that loved here. While Gund is a good man and has done a lot of good in Cleveland his ownership of the Cavs leaves much to be desired. Ironically Progressive Field has gotten more backlash even though Progressive employs 10,000+ more people in Cleveland than Quicken Loans does.

[aqib]

I believe it was one of, if not the first, naming rights deal in pro sports.

Rich Stadium in Buffalo is the oldest I recall. There is also the Carrier Dome at Syracuse

[efin98]

Rich Stadium in Buffalo is the oldest I recall. There is also the Carrier Dome at Syracuse

Another NFL stadium, Shaefer Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., was older by two years in using naming rights and is the oldest that people acknowledge(obvious that Busch Stadium is older, but that's a different debate).