Thursday, October 13, 2005
Stadium Name Quick Hits
So UT has sold the naming rights to their baseball stadium. For $13.1 million over 15 years it will now be called: UFCU Disch-Falk Field. I guess that is ok. At least they get to keep the Disch-Falk. One of their upgrades should be to put down grass so they could have a real baseball stadium.
Two thoughts hit me immediately when I read this. 1) < $1 mil per year seem rather low for one of the top college facilities. If we ever sold rights to Olsen, which I would only be in favor of if Olsen was still a major part of the name and the company didn’t have a dorky sounding name, I would hope it would be for more. 2) UFCU (University Federal Credit Union) is dangerously close to becoming fun with anagrams. Speaking of stadium names. I used to say that A&M football stadium is the shortest name in the world. Kyle Field. 2 words, 9 letters. I wasn’t positive but it would be hard to beat. Well, it hasn’t been beaten but we have a tie. Jenn alerted me that Northwestern’s football had the same stats. The official name of their stadium, since 1997, is Ryan Field. Also weird that both names have y as the second letter.
Two thoughts hit me immediately when I read this. 1) < $1 mil per year seem rather low for one of the top college facilities. If we ever sold rights to Olsen, which I would only be in favor of if Olsen was still a major part of the name and the company didn’t have a dorky sounding name, I would hope it would be for more. 2) UFCU (University Federal Credit Union) is dangerously close to becoming fun with anagrams. Speaking of stadium names. I used to say that A&M football stadium is the shortest name in the world. Kyle Field. 2 words, 9 letters. I wasn’t positive but it would be hard to beat. Well, it hasn’t been beaten but we have a tie. Jenn alerted me that Northwestern’s football had the same stats. The official name of their stadium, since 1997, is Ryan Field. Also weird that both names have y as the second letter.
