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		<title>Take back our stadium names: No more St. Pete Times Forum, Raymond James Stadium or Tropicana Field</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/politicalwhore/2009/06/07/take-back-our-stadium-names-no-more-st-pete-times-forum-raymond-james-stadium-or-tropicana-field/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm ditching the bought-and-paid-for names of Tampa Bay's sports arenas and going back to their old monikers. Who's with me?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was poking around the Internet this morning, reading about last night&#8217;s <a href="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/tampacalling/2009/05/31/phish-saves-america-fenway-bonnaroo-sit-ins-more/" target="_blank">Phish</a> show <a href="http://fromtheroad.phish.com/tour/2009-06-06-comcast-center" target="_blank">in Mansfield, MA.</a>, when something hit me. <a href="http://phishthoughts.com/2009/06/07/a-great-night-at-great-woods/" target="_blank">The author</a> kept referring to the concert&#8217;s venue, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&amp;hs=U10&amp;q=comcast+center%2C+mansfield+ma&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=g10" target="_blank">The Comcast Center</a>, by its pre-sponsorship name of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Woods" target="_blank">Great Woods.</a> I started thinking about the big-three Bay area sports venues and their old names, and now I&#8217;m thinking about ditching the corporate sponsorship names too. I have my reasons, and they are as follows:</p>
<p><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/3604238260_8af2410c22_m.jpg"><img class="alignright" style="border: 3px solid black;margin: 4px" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/3604238260_8af2410c22_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="180" /></a><strong>Building:</strong> That big stadium with red seats on Dale Mabry where they play football<br />
<strong>Corporate sponsorship name:</strong> <a href="http://www.raymondjames.com/stadium/" target="_blank">Raymond James Stadium</a><br />
<strong>Old-school handle:</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Stadium" target="_blank">Tampa Stadium</a>. OK, technically it&#8217;s always been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_James_Stadium" target="_blank">Raymond James Stadium</a>, but it was built next door to, and replaced, <a href="http://www.10yardline.org.uk/Images/TampaStadiumCirca1989.jpg" target="_blank">Tampa Stadium</a>.<br />
<strong>Reason to switch back:</strong> It&#8217;s <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/the-great-recession-versus-the-great-depression/" target="_blank">The Great Recession</a> folks, and you want some investment bankers slapping their <a href="http://www.bniverulam.co.uk/dynamicdata/uploadImages/Raymond%20James%20logo.jpg" target="_blank">logo feces</a> all over the local altar to the biggest sport in America? (On a personal note: I think Raymond James had a hand in the Loaf 401(k) program last year. Fell free to label me bitter in the comments.) Tampa Stadium is an excellent name, a simple-but-solid description of the place the moniker represents. Tampa Stadium sounds tough. Not to many players want to travel to Tampa Stadium, a blistering sand pit where opposing teams get the life suffocated out of them. Raymond James Stadium, on the other hand, is the type of place that sees cash from the hometown squad&#8217;s retirement account vanish quarterly for as long as they&#8217;re in the league.</p>
<p><em>Cross-posted from <a href="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/01/29/live-blogging-super-bowl-43/" target="_blank">The Daily Loaf</a>. To read the rest, go to <a href="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/06/07/take-back-our-stadium-names-no-more-st-pete-times-forum-raymond-james-stadium-or-tropicana-field/" target="_blank">Take back our stadium names: No more St. Pete Times Forum, Raymond James Stadium or Tropicana Field</a>.</em></p>
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