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February 11, 2005
Tonight, at the SportsFilter Center...: Boston's FleetCenter offers single-day naming rights.
so the CEO of delaware north has a dog that likes to watch hockey. does he also watch paint dry? and grass grow? and dust collect? or worse yet, the NBA?
posted by curlyelk at 02:26 PM on February 11, 2005
Put in my vote for the "curlyelkShouldKeepHisIgnorantAndUnproductiveOpinionsToHimselfCentre".
posted by DrJohnEvans at 02:49 PM on February 11, 2005
I'd put 5 large on "Former home of the Boston Bruins". I wonder if they'd go along with that? It's G-rated, right?
posted by Samsonov14 at 03:48 PM on February 11, 2005
I don't think $500 will get it done, chico. It is a pretty cool idea, however, and I will be very interested to see what good, bad and tacky names come out in the next two weeks. For pure taking the piss on the whole naming rights thing, I bet you would very popular if you had the bucks to splash down for "Boston Garden".
posted by smithers at 05:52 PM on February 11, 2005
Oh, sh*t. I'd pitch in for Boston Garden. I bet you could get a lot of people around here to do that...
posted by tieguy at 10:31 PM on February 11, 2005
For a short time after the Fleece Center went up, people were still referring to it as "the Garden", and I hoped that that would continue...but no. I say bring back the Garden.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 06:19 AM on February 12, 2005
I'd put up $5 to call it what I always thought of when I heard the former name: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Fleet Enema Center!"
posted by wfrazerjr at 07:54 AM on February 13, 2005
I'll chip in for "The Steinbrenner Center" or "Yankees are still better center" or finally the "Bill Buckner Errordome"
posted by mayerkyl at 01:39 PM on February 14, 2005
mayerkyl: 'cept the Fleet Center/Boston Garden has never had anything to do with baseball. Apart from that, you're dead on.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 02:45 PM on February 14, 2005
What does "Fleet" have to do with basketball?
posted by mayerkyl at 03:15 PM on February 14, 2005
For $500? Hell, we could totally put that together. We get an MP3 of the phone answering service, Jumbotron footage, a sign or two... This is awesome. I also like the taking-the-piss aspect of it. It kind of makes a mockery of the whole arena-naming-rights thing. This is cool.