Sponsorship is ruining College Football


I hate to sound anti-corporate, but this shit really pisses me off.

Atlanta's permanent bowl game is in its last year being known as the Peach Bowl. Next year the game will be called the Chick-fil-A Bowl, following a new $22 million deal with the fast-food chain.
Not by me it won't. I'm a football purist, and I try my darndest not to ignore corporate sponsorships. I still refer to Fedex Field as Jack Kent Cooke Stadium (and I'll kick Daniel Snyder in the nuts if I see him on the street). In my book, the Orange Bowl will always be the Orange Bowl, and the Peach Bowl will always be the Peach Bowl. Sponsorships are usually mutated into something non-flattering like the Weedwhacker Bowl for Poulan-Weedeater Independence Bowl. The Chicken Bowl should be easy enough to disparage.

And no amount of corporate sponsorship has ever made me run out and buy their products.


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I agree. Being from Atlanta, the Peach Bowl will always be the Peach Bowl.

Too bad all that corporate money will never allow a NCAA playoff.

Posted by: Joseph at December 30, 2005 11:01 AM

Amen. I remember many years ago when the sponsoship was just taking hold and some bowls resisted. Details have faded, but I recall a corporate representative deriding the hold-outs and refering to them as "arrogant". What a jackass. Unfortunately, also a realist.

Posted by: tkdkerry at December 30, 2005 12:37 PM

Yeah. Baltimore football went from Ravens Stadium to PSINet Stadium, back to Ravens Stadium for a couple of years and now it's Maryland National Bank Stadium. Gag me with a spoon.
What gets me is that the payoff for the owners for pimping the stadium name is usually a few million a year. Compare that to the hundreds of millions that community taxpayers are extorted for new stadiums to keep or gain a football team and you have to wonder why community leaders "sold" (gave away) the rights to name the stadium in the first place.

Posted by: mikem at December 30, 2005 9:30 PM

Like LINUS said about christmas ITS GETTING TOO COMMERCIAL AND TOO DANGEROUS

Posted by: sandpiper at December 31, 2005 8:29 PM

Thank GOD it's still Cleveland Browns Stadium. What they did do, however, was sell the naming rights to each of the four main gates.

Posted by: Ralph Gizzip at January 1, 2006 3:07 PM

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