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Buffett delights Parrot Heads, Dol-fans at LandShark Stadium

Several hundred Dolphins fans and Parrot Heads dressed in jerseys, Hawaiian shirts, and everything from balloons fashioned into fins, stuffed cheeseburgers and parrots on their heads reveled and swayed at a quick Jimmy Buffett concert at newly re-named LandShark Stadium Friday morning. Check out a photo gallery here.

As LandShark Lager’s tagline says: “Let The Fin Begin.”

Buffett and new Dolphins owner Stephen Ross ushered in a brand new era at the Miami Gardens venue, merging football with fun.

“We gave half the tickets to the Parrot Head clubs and half to Dolphans and you can’t tell the difference,” Buffett said during his three-song set. “I know I’m home.”

He sang his anthem “Margaritaville,” at one point saying “It’s all Steve Ross’ fault,” rather than blaming a woman as the song does, followed up with “Volcano” and ended with his newly rewritten “Fins” to honor the DolPHINS.

We drive down on Interstate 95,
And up on U.S. 1.
It’s game day in Miami town
Where the Dolphins are Number 1 (numero uno)
We play down by the ocean
In the warm South Florida sun
The tailgate’s down so gather round
For some pre-game LandShark Fun

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Wow....I didn't no buffet
did free shit for Obama...
Lord help us, better yet Lord help him cause I am telling everyone, he just
lost fans big time...

Wow....I didn't no buffet
did free shit for Obama...
Lord help us, better yet Lord help him cause I am telling everyone, he just
lost fans big time...

Wow....I didn't no buffet
did free shit for Obama...
Lord help us, better yet Lord help him cause I am telling everyone, he just
lost fans big time...

. i sense some of our NY Bretheren are taking an opportunity to blast South Florida... yet they live here...? Go back to Yonkers an root for Matt "DIRTY" Sanchez to save you beloved team. Leave south floridians alone. J>E>T>S SUCK SUCK SUCK!

Just god awful!!!!
We need to at least keep the "fight song".

SO GLAD I LIVE IN JERSEY BAD ENOUGH BEING BIG TIME FISH FAN WITH ALL THESE JET FANS BUT LEAST DONT HAVE TO COME UP WITH EXCUSES TO DEAL WITH THAT BS#@!

1). It has always been, and will always be Joe Robbie. But nonetheless, this one-year garbage makes no sense at all. Ross looks like a fucking moron.

2). I'm actually a big JB fan, but this song is lame... "Fins" is a great song when performed in concert or lounging on the beach, but the lyric changes are fucking gay. I'm sick of this team's lame-ass theme songs. They both suck.

3). Parcells probably wants to crawl in a hole right about now. What a circus. All that matters is winning. I don't need all this other shit.

What a embarrising fight song.Ugggh!!!!
totally sucks

The name is odd (given dolphons and sharks don't mix, but whatever.
By the way, Obama won. He's your president! Stop wishing he proves you right and go support your country and your leader.

Yes, Buffett IS a flaming liberal who held free concerts for Obama to register fradulent voters with ACORN. How the most capitalist rocker support the most socialist president is beyond me, but I gave up all affiliaton with Buffett music and products (the beer, the shrimp, the tequila, the concert shirts, etc.) when he did those Obama concerts. I will still support the Fins, but I will NOT set foot in "The Stadium Formerly Known As Joe Robbie Stadium" until it has yet another new name!

Words cannot express my disappointment. I've been a dolphin fan for 30 years and nothing has made me more embarassed to be a fan. I could handle Seban walking away, a 1-15 season, but this is too much. I'm just glad I dont live in Miami I dont know if i could handle it. I feel like the Dolphins have been hi jacked by a bunch of Gays.

We were the Miami Dolphins
The sellout football team
We troll around
from land to shark
like no one's ever seen
This beer is crap
It's really bad
And tastes like ethanol
So let's go say Miami
ain't makin the Super Bowl

Cause we're the
Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins
LandShark Lager,
We're so done
Cause we're the
Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins
LandShark Lager,
We're so done!

Sorry but that song is gay as the new name.

Why not go back to the start and call it Joe Robbie again.

And sorry but from what I understand Dolphins hate Sharks! now I know why lol

Intelligent comment Joe...you seem very smart

DISGUSTING...Joe Robbie is spinning in his grave....as much as i love Jimmy Buffett, this just doesn't get it.

This is very sad; all of you that are happy about this I hope you get cancer in your anuses!

Wow (to Wanny McStache) - prejudiced much?

I'm not sure how old you are but Landshark Lager is a fairly new brew and Jimmy Buffet was mainstream when I was young and has never gone out of style. I'm a whopping 35.

I guess to a racist 19 year old, this must be confusing to you...?? Is that Wanny McStache or "Wanna Mustache"? No worries...when you grow up, it will grow in. Until then, consider learning a little class...

IN STICKING WITH A COMMON SOUTH FLORIDA THEME, THE NEW DOLPHINS STADIUM SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED:

"FAJITA FIELD" OR "THE EMPANADA BOWL"


PS - WITH BUFFET AND LANDSHARK NOW PART OF THE FINS, DOES THIS MEAN THE NEW AVERAGE AGE FOR DOLPHINS FANS IS GOING TO BE ABOUT 80??????

Ok I've figured out who Jimmy Buffet is, but wtf is a parrot head?

Congrats Jimmy! Wish you had Landshark at the hockey games!!! We love you, "BUBBLES UP!" xoxo, dani and josi

Details of the agreement:

The facility will be called LandShark Stadium only until the end of the Dolphins' season.

When next season's Pro Bowl and Super Bowl are held in South Florida, it likely will be called Dolphin Stadium or bear the name of a new corporate partner. The Dolphins will continue their search for a more permanent corporate name for 2010 and beyond.


- Huh? 1 Year?

This makes no sense.

Should call it Loan Shark Stadium. You need one to afford a couple of decent tickets, refreshments and parking.

Everybody, it seems, wants to be in Show Business.

Real Estate just doesn't compare with Jimmy Buffett thanking you, by name, on stage. Buffett's going to be happy to part this man from whatever he hasn't already doled out to Wayne Huzienga. Hopefully it works out for both of them, but I think only Ross, some white people born around 1950, and a distinct group partial to umbrella drinks that wear parrots on their heads could think this one-hit wonder from the 1970s brings "star power" to the Dolphins.

Ross is no different than anyone who is attracted to the white-hot flame of the spotlight like so many moths. Wealth does not mean you're going to be famous, but it does mean you can try to buy some if you desire it.

Buffett and the Fins...a match made in heaven. Bottom line is: let's keep putting the winning product on the field and hope that we are home for the Super Bowl at "Our Stadium."

I was there front and center and this was incredible !! Thank you to the Miami Dolphins and Jimmy Buffet!!

Not all that enthused about the beer or the name but the press conference/mini concert was amazing !!

What a fun time at the stadium this morning...Dolphins, Buffett & a beautiful blue So.FL sky..works for me!!

ummm...Dolphins don't like Sharks (Jacques Cousteau told me so!)

There's more to this story. The "Parrothead Police" will be patrolling the parking lots before games, confiscating any beer that's not Landshark. It's the Greedy Buffet Way!!

There's more to this story. The "Parrothead Police" will be patrolling the parking lots before games, confiscating any beer that's not Landshark. It's the Greedy Buffet Way!!

The Shark Tank is actually the nickname where the San Jose Sharks play....that's a hockey team, which no one follows...LOL

They play a lot nearer the ocean than, say, Kansas City or Green Bay.

Let's call the stadium by its true name: FOR-THE-RIGHT-PRICE-YOUR-NAME-GOES-HERE STADIUM

Let's call the stadium by its true name: FOR-THE-RIGHT-PRICE-YOUR-NAME-GOES-HERE STADIUM

Too bad this pi## water beer sucks!

Possible stadium nicknames:

The Shark Tank
Shark Park
or just "The Shark"
Mediocreville

No problem with the name, no problem with the song, no problem with the sponsorship. As long as the fight song is still there after we score (can you investigate that, Sarah?), I'm happy. I'd almost at this point rather have a sponsor for the stadium than not...

Who cares what they call it? Just get the team to the Super Bowl. I'm interested in FOOTBALL. I don't care for concerts and the rest of the cr@p. Jimmy Buffet, stay away!!

Will always be Joe Robbie to me!!!!! But if Corporate America needs to be involved, could be worse than Buffett and the generic "Dolphin" stadium. However, Landshark beer is not really all that good. Miller Lite for my tailgate!!

GO FISH!!!!!!!

finally something better than proplayer (nationally outside of fl call it by sponsor name). also, not a big buffet fan, but you have to have pride in local ties, glad it is a local launch than fed-ex or citi. can only help.....no negative unless ross's check from buffet bounces!

finally something better than proplayer (nationally outside of fl call it by sponsor name). also, not a big buffet fan, but you have to have pride in local ties, glad it is a local launch than fed-ex or citi. can only help.....no negative unless ross's check from buffet bounces!

The Dolphins will play in a stadium named for Sharks.

The Hurricanes will play in a stadium named for beer.

The Marlins are run by a bunch of landsharks.

So it's sort of fitting, I guess.

The only negative about Buffett is he's probably a flaming Liberal!

Does Ross really believe, turning the stadium into a theme park, is going to draw more people to the games?

they don't play anywhere near the ocean, or south beach. the team is a fraud. why don't they change their name to the toll booths or the fetid wastelands.

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SARAH TALALAY
After a decade as a news reporter in New Jersey, Southern California, Chicago and South Broward, Talalay decided to trade in covering meetings about city government and schools for meetings about sports deals and stadium finance...
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