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Name for sale: Real Salt Lake courts companies for naming rights to soccer stadium

Real Salt Lake/Dave Checketts can't do any worse than EnergySolutions Arena but then this is Utah, get the Utah legislature to spend the money to name the stadium after themselves since it was the legislature that ok'd the money after better people saw the project for what it is-pie in the sky, castle in the clouds self promotion.

The team is bad and soccer is sooooo boring! I have watched the game and I find Pro bowling more interesting. The stadium will run mostly empty and some company will have thrown away good money. If a company is that hard up for advertising I hope they get the naming rights cheap.

soccer is mainly forgein sport to us... mainly for the hispanic community, actually. Basketball have always been a big thing for Utah. Good luck trying to jump-charge the soccer community in Utah!

How about Hogi Yogi Field? or Pebbles-in-my Pocket Place? or Chuck-o-Rama Stadium? or Huntsman Chemicals Bowl? or Kennecott Copper Quarry? or Franklin Squires Foreclosure Stadium?

Let's call it what it really is and will be known as in a few years when the team either folds and/or moves; The Sandy RecPlex. I wonder what the family rate will be to use the field?

While they are at it, they might want to change the name to Real Salt Lake of Sandy to expand marketing possibilities. Then again, it won't matter as most don't care about soccer or won't care when this doomed from the beginning venture fails anyway. No one will care for obvious reasons, as most don't now.

The only people that wanted this deal are a few legislators and a few hundred soccer fans. What a complete waste of money and display of delusion and willful ignorance.

Soon-to-be-a-car-lot Field?

I think $1.5 Million per year may be a bit steep. I hear Energy Solutions didn't pay that amount for the Delta Center. I am a soccer fan, but I have a tough time believing they can get that much for naming rights....and for all the pundits out there, soccer has its place, and will draw much better than you think.

I think that it should be named either Enron Field or Worldcom Stadium. It would be symbolic of the scam that Dave Checketts pulled on Salt Lake County. Just as these two companies did with shareholders, employees and customers.

Quit flaunting your ignorance you provincial Utahns. You sound so ridiculous to the rest of the world. I'm embarrassed that my home town acts so silly when it comes to the sport. Hispanic community? LOL, that rises above ignorance and borders on racist. I'm as white as they come and am a huge supporter of the English Premier League which is the most watched sports league in the world. Boring? Come off it. What do you call baseball? Learn about something before you criticize it. I can't believe this community ever won the Olympic bid.

SOCCER OR "FOOTBALL" BECAUSE THAT'S THE NAME WORLDWIDE, IS AN INTERNATIONAL SPORT, NOT JUST AN HISPANIC SPORT, SPORT NUMBER ONE IN THA WORLD, AND PLEASE DONT TRY TO SAY THAT NBA AND ALL OTHERS SPORTS HERE IN THE US ARE "WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP" SPORTS, KEEP IT FOR US ONLY."F.I.B.A", "F.I.F.A" THEY ALREADY HAVE THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT, SOCCER IS NOT BORING, BORING FOR WHO DOESNT KNOW ABOUT SPORTS.

soccer will be boring here in the states if you dont spend money for "real" good players", not for guys that are old or dont know how to play soccer, its a young sport here, and guys from here dont play soccer, that is the truth

It's time that we pony up again, and pull out the legislature's pocket book... It would be only fitting that with such a large percentage of the cost being covered by the tax payers, we might as well also buy the right to name the place.

I suggest something a little more off beat, rather than the traditional corporate names.

Perhaps, "Checkett's Free Ride to Financial Gain Arena"

or "Huntsman's Kiss Up/Waste of Money Stadium"

or even "What the Heck is Government Funding Being Spent on this For Field"

It's odd that when the national economy is on the brink of recession, due to consumer debt and foreclosure, that we are blessed enough in the state of Utah to be spending our tax dollars on a well needed soccer stadium.

Checketts smoke and mirror tactics have taken the risk for his investment and placed it squarely on the government.

I guess we will at least always have this nice memorial in Sandy to our own stupidity...

The RIPOFF BOWL

Soccer will never take off in this state. What a complete and total waste of money!!

How about "The Stadium Built Despite Ignorant Nay Sayers and FAILED Anti-Stadium Initiatives."

most citizens of this great nation could care less about professional soccer! Almost no one in this country cares what sport they watch in Brazil or England. The world can have soccer but I hate to see good money wasted on stadiums that will not be filled. I understand the rules of soccer and have watched it, much the same as I have Rugby and Cricket, but it will not sell in the US outside of vastly larger population areas.
Someone raised the point of a true world champion, good point, but 95% of the people in this country could care less if soccer has a world champion. Try to focus on where this is taking place and who ultimately will pay for it. Common sense says it will end up a waste of money. State money which could be used to compensate teachers, police, fire, improve public facilities that serve the whole population or improve infrastructure. It just appears to be a waste of finite resources.

How about tax payer stadium since we already paid for it whether we liked it or not. The Jazz which were playing a proven sport in a proven league waited years for the Delta Center. Soccer is a fun sport but the team may fail to make money in Utah or the league could even fail. We should have waited to see if it would succeed in Utah before we put out all the tax payers money. I hope it takes off and we have a full stadium and every game on TV but this was too big a risk at this time, and we made the risk, name after us.

wow! the negativity is heavy around here on this thread. how about:
"Utah Is Filled With Rage & Hate Stadium"

Most of of these comments really blow me away how dumb and ill-informed some of you readers really are about the sport of soccer and about the stadium funding and who paid for what!!

I think this is sad. As I read the comments all I can think is how ignorant most of you all are. I am not a soccer fan, but I have no objections to what they did. I think people need to do a little more research before they decide to make dumb comments. I bet that if you were to look at it you would see that Real is more successful, fan base wise, than the bee's. I know for sure that they draw more fans on a regular basis than the Bee's. Yet no one complains of the sad state of Baseball in Utah. I just cant believe how ignorant you all are.