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MCI Center to be Verizon Center

Postby kibaxx7 on Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:32 am

Da Story wrote:WASHINGTON -- The MCI Center is about to become the Verizon Center.

Verizon Communications Inc. completed its purchase of MCI Inc. on Friday, making way for a change at the home of the Washington Wizards, Capitals and Mystics. The name switch will officially take place sometime before the end of March.

The 20,000-seat arena, built by Wizards owner Abe Pollin, opened in downtown Washington in December 1997 and has spurred an economic revitalization of the surrounding neighborhood. It hosts an average of 220 events per year, including Georgetown basketball, concerts and other shows.


We should use that in the v1.04 roster :)
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Postby ixcuincle on Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:21 pm

Thanks for the information...living a few min from DC and being on vacation I didn't hear about it until now. :)
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Postby Drex on Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:52 pm

I think Phoenix gym is getting a new name too, but I'm not sure:crazy:
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Postby cyanide on Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:57 pm

Damn, all those "Can you hear me now?" commercials sure worked.
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Postby Riot on Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:05 pm

Drex wrote:I think Phoenix gym is getting a new name too, but I'm not sure:crazy:


Yes, it changed names on Friday. It is now called "US Airways Arena" I believe.
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Postby AlwaysWhat,NeverWhy on Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:09 pm

Why does almost every single arena in the States get named after an airline???
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Postby Riot on Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:16 pm

D-Weaver wrote:Why does almost every single arena in the States get named after an airline???


It doesn't. For the NBA there is only like 3 or 4.
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Postby AlwaysWhat,NeverWhy on Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:18 pm

That's 2 or 3 too many, Riot.

And BTW, I heard they were going to rename Target Center. They said that the name resulted in high risk of 'accidental' smart bombing by US airplanes... :lol:
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Postby Axel on Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:02 am

I think naming arneas after companies is fucking stupid. How many people are going to shop at Target because they named an arena after it? You'd have to have been sheltered from the outside world for all of your life to not know what Target is and what they sell. If I were picking an airline, I wouldn't pick the one I saw on the floor of an arena... I'd go to expedia and pick the cheapest fare I could find.

I'm surprised there isn't a Wal-Mart Center yet......

Is The Arena in Oakland the only arena yet to have been taken over by the marketing craze? What about the Rose Garden? Does that advertise anything?
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Postby Riot on Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:29 am

Stadiums are very expensive to run and mantain. Getting a sponser helps pay for some of the costs.
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Postby Axel on Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:35 am

That I understand.. what I don't understand is how it could possibly benefit from the sponsor's side.
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Postby Riot on Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:36 am

Good advertising space and they have a stadium named after them.
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Postby Axel on Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:02 pm

I'm starting to think it's just an ego thing... everything corporate is egocentric :)
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Postby Drex on Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:00 pm

Of course they want to be egocentric.
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Postby AlwaysWhat,NeverWhy on Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:01 pm

Drex wrote:Of course they want to be egocentric.


It's their JOB! :wink:
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Postby Yougi on Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:08 pm

PAlace of Auburn Hills? Does it advertise something?
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Postby Jugs on Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:22 pm

It advertises Hills.
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Postby AlwaysWhat,NeverWhy on Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:14 am

Jugs wrote:It advertises Hills.


I hope that was a joke, Bob. Albeit a bad one. :D
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Postby Drex on Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:31 am

Says the King of the bad jokes...
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Postby cyanide on Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:33 am

Riot wrote:Good advertising space and they have a stadium named after them.


Definitely. It's all about advertising. I'm taking a course on advertising right now, and the numbers are incredible in terms of how many ads are out there, being used by media forms, and how we are consuming it despite of our intentions to ignore them.
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Postby AlwaysWhat,NeverWhy on Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:55 am

Drex wrote:Says the King of the bad jokes...


Hey, Brutus came out of teh closet! :lol:
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Postby Matt on Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:59 am

it'd suck if the Palace was renamed to something stupid like The Ford Center
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