This week's winner is John H for this response to the post in which I report visiting Dodger Stadium while the Dodgers were in New York:
"Visiting LA without the Dodgers in town? Did Clark W. Griswald plan this family vacation?"
Photo: Getty
This week's winner is Scott E for his comment on my post regarding the sale of Giants Stadium seats at $499 per pair:
"Rather than buy a PSL at the new stadium, can I buy a pair of old seats and take them with me to the new place? They'll perform the same job at a fraction of the cost."
Excellent idea!
Here is another way to look at it: For the price of a $20,000 PSL plus the $700 game ticket to the Giants' first preseason game of 2010, you could buy 84 seats from the old stadium, set them up in your back yard and invite 83 friends over to watch the third-stringers play on TV on an early August evening.
This week's comment contest winner is JENNY from Woodbury for calling me out for inconsistency and overreaction regarding inebriated fans' behavior at Bethpage Black.
Here is the post in question. Click below for her comment.
JENNY makes some good points. One problem is that generalizing about a golf crowd, which is spread over many acres and many hours, is difficult and perhaps unfair.
Another problem is the unique expectations of fan behavior in golf, where what is normal for baseball is deemed unacceptable on the links.
Bottom line: Some fans - especially young ones, especially in the rain and especially in early evening - were obnoxious in a manner not in keeping with the occasion.
But there were no reports of fans committing the cardinal sin of golf spectating: yelling during a player's backswing.
Was I a tad over the top in my reaction? Probably so. But it was a legitimate story line to be explored by Newsday scribes.
Photo: Newsday/Ed Betz
Let's get the Friday comment contest out of the way a day early to clear the palate for U.S. Open stuff:
This week's winner is multiple champ John Philips for his take on Artie Lange's appearance on Joe Buck's HBO show Monday.
Click below for the entire comment, but this was my favorite part:
"What did Joe Buck expect? He's got one of the best sportscaster gigs going since Curt Gowdy.Why is he playing with fire like this?
"Can we older people imagine Gowdy having a similar show back in the late 60's and booking an uncensored Redd Foxx to appear on his first show with Ted Williams and Johny Pesky?"
Photo: Getty
This week's comment award goes to reader Tim Britton for emailing this very good question that hadn't occurred to me as I pondered Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals Friday night:
"What's the Over/Under on the ratings for the Pirates/Tigers game at PNC Park? Better yet, the attendance? Would love to see numbers on this early next week."
Wow. Good questions. This is the kind of situation that used to call for people at the stadium to whip out a Watchman (see two posts below)!
Meanwhile, in Detroit, Red Wings fans will be unable to read about the big game in a newspaper delivered to their homes, because there is no such thing on Saturdays in that town. Sigh.
Photo: AP
Have to do the Friday Comment Contest a day early, because it helps set up the NBA Finals, which begin Thursday night.
The winner is Chad in Virginia, for his reaction to this post in which ESPN/ABC executive Norby Williamson uses the phrase "at the end of the day" on several occasions in discussing Magic Johnson's participation as a studio analyst for Lakers games.
Wrote Chad: "Did Williamson consistently reference 'the end of the day' because that is when NBA Finals games tip off?"
Gotta go now. Enjoy the Mets and Yankees day games, unless you have to work or go to school or something yucky like that.
Photo: Getty
Decided to go with something simple and to the point this week, from John H after a post previewing the Champions League final between FC Barcelona and Manchester United:
"Are my tax dollars going to the team pictured with the AIG shirt?"
Thus did John identify the only thing most Americans care about upon seeing a player from storied Man U these days, understandably so given the three letters emblazoned on the players' uniforms.
The answer partly is yes, I assume.
But this was the club's final season under its current lucrative sponsorship deal with AIG, and it will have to seek a new deep-pocketed partner for 2010.
Good luck with that, guys.
I didn't have much choice this week, what with Mrs. WatchDog endorsing Listencat's contribution to this post soliciting nominations for a new ESPN ombudsman.
Among the gems from the Cat, long one of my most diligent and critical readers, was this line complaining that other regulars more regularly get their comments posted than he does:
"It was like they knew the secret handshake to enter, which appears to be that in order to post any comment, one must utilize at least two of the following terms: baby boomer, Alaska, sigh, Glauber, basement, and Cornell."
Regarding the actual nominations for an ombudsman, I liked Anthony's suggestion of Floyd Mayweather.
Below is his amiable chat this week with (Levittown) Brian Kenny.
This week's winner, for the third time in four weeks, is Islander505, for his reaction to the biggest news in sports cyberspace this week:
Glauber now is twittering, and picked up 186 followers in his first 24 hours, including Islander505 (second to sign up) and NFL commish Roger Goodell (24th).
"Geezus....following Glauber on twitter is like watching an 8mm black and white movie of 505 on Christmas morning circa 1961 after Robot Commando was located under the tree. And now I know how the family dog felt after I got my hands on Robbie."
The week's winner is Brian, for his reaction to a post in which I told of going to both Yankee Stadium and Citi Field Wednesday, and mentioned Bondy of the Daily News challenged me in the Citi press box to take the train BACK to the Bronx to catch the end of the game at which I started the night.
Here it is: "Bondy's idea of you going from Yankee Stadium to Citi Field and then back to Yankee Stadium all during the same game would be amazing. The question is, are you important enough that the Yankees would waive their no re-entry policy for your attempt to make history."
Congratulations to Islander505 for his second consecutive comment contest award - and not surprisingly his second consecutive PG-13 rated one.
His response to my mini-review of a subtitled Mexican soccer movie:
"I'd rather watch The Vagina Monologues with Mandarin subtitles in a wheat grass bar at 4 o'clock in the morning in downtown Ulan Bator than sit through a soccer movie. (downfall of the American civilization)."
This brings him within in one of John Philips' record three victories in a row, which earned John a brief ban from winning the award.
Good luck next week, I-505!
(WatchDog kudos to first reader to identify the woman in the picture and what she has to do with any of this.)
This week's comment contest winner is Islander505, who often lives on the edge of political incorrectness, for his take on my post noting the two moronic late penalties Sean Avery took in Wednesday's Caps-Rangers game:
"That was a sloppy second penalty by Avery." Ouch!
Runner-up goes to former Newsday scribe Chuck Culpepper for his comment on my Facebook post asking baseball fans to explain why that zzzport is more popular than hockey.
(Parental warning: Chuck's comment includes a word that some might consider crude in describing a common bodily function.)
Click below for that.
Photo: Getty
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In a week in which New York welcomed - and whined about - two brand new baseball stadiums, the commenting highlight was the discussion inspired by this post about Dave Howard's appearance on WFAN, in which he explained the technical reasons behind Citi Field's already notorious views from some parts of the upper deck in left.
It includes a back-and-forth between reader "jestaplero" and me regarding whether I am or am not a "corporate shill" for the new stadiums.
But the commenting award goes to reader "13,000 Less Affordable Seats" for his or her breakdown of the situation at Citi. Click below for that.
(From what I've seen for myself and heard from some fans, the biggest problem is not that some parts of the outfield cannot be seen from many seats. It is the even more annoying stairways leading to the upper part of the promenade. Between the railings, Plexiglas and passing pedestrians, many fans' views of home plate itself are marred.)
This week's comment contest honors go collectively to those who weighed on this post of a 1965 Yankees ticket form from Richard Cole of Farmingdale.
Great mix of nostalgia and perspective on the subject of ticket prices.
Speaking of which . . .
Hal Steinbrenner acknowledges some tickets at Yankee Stadium might be a tad over-pricey.
(For the amount of money the Yankees have spent on ads in the Times and on the radio trying to peddle their most expensive seats, they could have given a bunch of them away.)
And the Team Marketing Report says the Yankees have supplanted the Red Sox as the costliest team to watch play - by a pretty wide margin, actually.
Davidoff's take on the new stadium here.
Photo: AP
This week's winners are my two new Twitter pals, Charlie Villanueva and Shaquille O'Neal, who continually take time out of their busy days to update me on their thoughts, whereabouts and activities.
Shaq, to me and his 437,817 other followers Thursday night: "Just arrived at portland arena first person I c is my favorite reporter. Dam I love cheryl miller"
And here was Shaq earlier in his trip to Portland: "Anybody in portland touches me rt now will get two tickets I'm at redstar cafe"
Charlie, to me and his 12,645 other followers: "Not being bias bit uconn is the real deal"
(Charlie went to UConn, of course.)
The world gets stranger and more interesting by the day.
This week's Friday comment contest winner is reader Seth for his pragmatic take on a couple of the upstate New York schools represented in the NCAA Tournament:
"Smart kids go to Cornell. Smart kids with smart parents go to Binghamton. GO BEARCATS!!!"
Touche!
Then again . . . there is this, in which Cornell lost in the national championship game in a bracket based solely on alumni salaries of the schools involved.
The winner? Don't ask. I have to live with one of them.
(Why the Friday comment contest winner on Tuesday? Because the tournament starts in a couple of hours, and by Friday we will be living in a different world - a world in which Binghamton has beaten Duke. If there is a God.)
This week's honorees are two of the Giants fans kind enough to have assisted me with my story Tuesday about the team dipping deeply into its waiting list to sell its remaining PSLs.
First prize goes to Jeffrey Lax, who while as a Giants fan was unable to resist the chance to buy PSLs, expressed strong reservations about their propriety and legality.
His email the next day: "Neil, Apparently the Giants read your article. Earlier tonight, a Giants official called me and said that they were downgrading my PSL. Oddly, my section and seat location remain exactly the same, only now they are to Jets games. :-)"
Ouch!
Click below for runnerup Colin Cumming's PSL wisecrack.
Photo: Getty
This week's winner is joe, who weighed in on this post, headlined "Alex Rodriguez holds NY media hostage, Day 28," thusly:
"More like NY media hold readers hostage."
I also was amused by Ken Davidoff's comment on my post soliciting nominations for best sports-themed Broadway shows.
Click below for that.
Photo: Getty
I was going to wait until Friday to name the Friday comment contest winner, just in case something great came along Thursday.
Then the boss sent an unsolicited nomination of the comment I was planning to award, so what the heck, let's just do it right now!
The winner is long-time commenting star Jim Clark for his response to a post about the obstructed views from the bleachers in Yankee Stadium:
"As an Islanders fan, I wish I had obstructed seats."
Photo: The 1973 Elvis concert at the Coliseum, shot by Newsday's David Pokress.
This week's comment contest winner comes not from the blog but from the email inbox, in which a reader named Gerald conveys the skepticism surrounding a certain pinstriped, admittedly stupid and naive (and quite possibly disingenuous) third baseman:
"And he thought Madonna was a virgin."
Photo: AP
Long-time followers of the comment contest know I am a sucker for contributions that point out the silliness of my job and/or of the subjects I cover.
Thus in what has been one of the busiest weeks in WatchDog commenting history, our winner is Marc M, for his reaction to my transcription of Chris Russo's appearance on Howard Stern's show Wednesday:
"wow,
are Chris and Mike so embedded into the local sports psyche that we treat
their real or perceived spats as newsworthy. The whole world also
wants to know what Jeter thinks of the A-Rod fiasco. Even the president managed
to slip in a haymaker on A-roid. No wonder we can't compete globally anymore.
Our priorities have all gone to hell."
Runner up goes to aj for his or her suggestion for Mike Francesa:
"the only solution here is ian eagle. mike + ian would make us all forget about dog pretty quickly. can you please get into ian's head and ask him what he's thinking? nets basketball over this?!!!"
Photo: AP
This week's winner is Islander505 for his response to this morning's post on Sarah Palin naming her daughter in part after ESPN's headquarters:
"Too bad ESPN wasn't located in Tuntutuliak. I wanted to name my dog after that shining metropolis.
But then I realized that I could shorten my life expectancy by saying it all the time.
So I named him Huck."
(Editor's note: Tuntutuliak is a village in Alaska.)
A Friday comment contest first (stay with me here): The winner is a comment from DuMont Burger in response to Thursday's post announcing a winner of the Friday comment contest a day early.
Here it is: "Better pix of Minka than Minko, I always say."
Photo credit: Getty does a good job both with pictures and gasoline.
This week's Friday comment contest winner is reader "Casey," with an honorable mention to a followup by "LM," for putting their fingers on a thread that runs through "The Yankee Years," Joe Torre's new book with Tom Verducci.
Wrote Casey, in response to one of my many posts about the book: "Did the 'old-guard Yankees' like anyone other than each other?"
LM added: "Maybe Torre and the 'old guard' has something to do with the declining chemistry problem," and he noted Mike Mussina's comments in the book suggesting some of those late 1990s heroes perhaps aren't what they used to be.
Said Moose of Mariano Rivera: "As great as he is, and it's amazing what he does, if you start the evaluation again since I got here, he has accomplished nothing in comparison to what he accomplished in the four years before. He blew the World Series in '01. He lost the Boston series [in '04]. He didn't lose it himself but we had a chance to win in the ninth and sweep them, and he doesn't do it there."
Yikes. It's probably a good thing Mussina retired rather than encounter Rivera in the locker room in 2009. (Mussina has a point, to a point, but did he see the final few innings of the '03 ALCS?)
Oy. It's a tangled, tangled web.
Photo credit: Getty Images did a fine job capturing this image of Derek Jeter's friend Minka Kelly.
My favorite suggestion for a make-believe TV show on which Rex Ryan should make a cameo appearance was my own, "Meet the Pressure."
But I can't name myself the Friday comment contest winner.
My second favorite was Tom Rock's: "The Rex-Files" where special agents Mulder and Scully search out strange ripples in the cosmic fabric, such as a Jets coach talking about winning multiple Super Bowls.
But I can't name Newsday's own Mr. Rock, because it's bad enough I gave him the award last week.
So I'm going with the obvious but still deserving "Rex in the City," courtesy of first-time winner "SNY TV Head."
The poor guy deserves a break, what with being stuck going through life with Big East basketball games appearing where his face normally would be.
Tom Rock is carrying on the grand tradition of recent Newsday Giants beat writers with dry, sarcastic senses of humor.
That was in evidence in a comment he emailed me regarding potential fallout from my Antonio Pierce column Tuesday that I can't share, as it would only make Pierce angrier, and perhaps litigious.
But I can share his comment on my post about drunk fans vandalizing vehicles in the Giants Stadium parking lot, in which he deftly ties together that controversy with the one about Fox announcers receiving escorts after games from U.S. Marshals Service personnel:
"Maybe that was Aikman and Buck's ride."
No need to wait until Friday to declare this week's winner. Kimbo was an easy choice for his (or her) blunt-but-constructive reality check in response to this item.
This week's winners are Islander505 and Katie for their spirited debate on the history of bikinis, inspired by my New Year's Eve post of Fonzy literally jumping the shark.
This is WatchDog at its best: promoting stimulating discussion among stimulating people on stimulating topics.
On a more serious note, our runnerup up is Chris, who wonders here whether it is time for (Teflon Charles) Barkley, a media darling with a long list of missteps, to stop getting a free pass.
Jim Clark takes this week's prize, for his reaction to my decision to transcribe most of Joe Benigno's post-Jets-loss rant on WFAN.
Here it is, minus the part where he takes shots at my fellow New York sports media scribes. We don't do that sort of thing around here.
"When Ezra Cornell founded his university, he wanted it to teach young 'uns to be students of science and agriculture, much like his distant cousin Benjamin Franklin. Little did he suspect they would end up teaching its students how to transcribe monologues by 55 year old former frozen food salesmen on the failings of athletes tossing a leather-skin spheroid turn the field.
"Neil Best for Noble Prize in literature in 2009!"
Sure, my Friday comment contest winners skew heavily toward baby boomer references that make my under-40 readers want to gag, or at least make their eyes glaze over.
Tough. It's my blog, and this week I can't resist the back-and-forth between Islander505 and John H. about their days as Newsday paper boys.
I never was able to get a route myself. For one week in 1975 I delivered the Daily News for a friend who was on vacation. That was when the Islanders were coming back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Penguins in the playoffs.
(WatchDog kudos to first reader to make note of the historical relevance of the Newsday cover pictured.)
Thanks for all the clever J.J. Putz cracks, but official WatchDog policy is to leave the newest Met alone when it comes to his name.
Instead, this week's comment contest has a Nets theme, to coincide with the latest news of probable delays in the team's move to Brooklyn.
Our co-winners are Islander505 and ESPN's Steve Levy.
I505 cleverly suggested a consolation prize for a WFAN/Burger King contest: "Tailgate Party at Billy Paultz's Home." (Mr. Paultz' nickname was "The Whopper," young readers.)
Levy's contribution had nothing to do with WatchDog or Newsday, but I liked what the Bellmore Kennedy alum wistfully said on SportsCenter the other day after some old footage of Larry Brown playing for the ABA's New Orleans Buccaneers:
"Bill Melchionni, Billy Paultz, Larry Kenon, and God, I miss Super John [Williamson]. Those were my guys in the ABA. But enough about me."
Click below for this week's honorable mention.
This week's comment contest winner is long-time Friend of WatchDog Charlie Chilkoot, who knows I am a sucker for cleverly executed baby boomer references.
It happened in response to an incident earlier this week in which a reader took exception to a picture I posted of a comely lass from the Chargers cheerleader squad who appeared in a somewhat risque pose.
So I replaced her with a picture of Lance Alworth. Granted, Charlie has an edge when it comes to old-time Chargers references because he lives in the San Diego area, but I loved this response:
"What's up with trading the Babe for Bambi to illustrate this post? I liked her pose."
(Bambi was Alworth's nickname, young readers.)
My friends, it appears Glauber has broken the biggest story of his career. It's the secret to getting comments posted in our system, a saga that has caused me to pull out the 10 remaining hairs on my head.
Here it is, elegantly simple, and as far as I can tell, effective.
To celebrate, and also in recognition of the fact most of you won't look at the blog for the next four days, we award the comment contest winner two days early.
It's Dan PSU Class of 04, for three contributions to my contest to rename Citi Field. I liked "Paulson Palladium" and "Field of Schemes," but my favorite was this:
"In honor of their neighbors and Citi's asset-backed securities, 'The Scrap Heap'"
Now that Mike Francesa has had his say looking back at his breakup with Chris Russo, the big remaining question is when he will get around to naming a new sidekick, and who it will be.
Click below for his thoughts on why he still is committed to adding a voice or voices to the show, a process that has taken far longer than he originally thought.
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It has been a while since we honored the great John Philips, who dominated the early days of the comment contest. But I could not ignore his contribution to the recent look back at the 1978 play on which Herman Edwards returned an unfortunate Giants fumble for a late touchdown.
Click below to read it in all its glory.
This week's honorable mention goes to "Rupert," who concluded a comment about Warren Sapp with this zinger:
"Also, I must admit Neil I have sampled the Glauber blog and may have moved it up as a favorite - Glauber, like you is sharp and funny without all the vacations and whining about writing a column."
(Thanks to all. I'm amazed and appreciative any of you contribute anymore given the annoying features of our commenting system. Half the time my attempts to answer or comment on your thoughts get rejected, too, so I feel your pain.)
I am getting many complaints from would-be comment contributors about getting rejected because of (allegedly) too many comments being posted in too short a period of time.
People, I feel your pain. It's been happening more and more to me, too, as I try to respond to your many excellent comments and questions.
I am told we are exploring other blogging systems, so hang in there. In the meantime, this week's contest winners are everyone who has posted one of the 18,242 comments over the past 18 months. Thanks for your patience.
What's that you say? This is just a cheap cop-out because I'm too lazy to slog through all of this week's comments and pick a legitimate winner?
Maybe. Your refund check for your subscription fee is in the mail.
As an Ivy-educated, Jon Stewart-watching, dark chocolate-eating, dark beer-drinking, Frank Rich-reading, elitist, Northeast Socialist egghead, I naturally lean toward sophisticated, highbrow humor in judging the weekly comment contest.
This week is no exception, as I reach all the way back to last Friday for a winner.
It came from The Mask, in response to a post about the World Fishing Network and its new programming:
"All this fish channel talk has given me a haddock."
Obviously, the debate I tried to start Sunday comparing the Yankees' ALCS collapse in 2004 with the Rays' near-ALCS collapse in 2008 would have been more interesting if Tampa Bay actually had lost Game 7.
But I thought it was an intriguing topic. So did loyal reader Jeff, apparently. Click below for his detailed and impassioned take on the subject.
All comment posters should take this kind of time and effort in sharing their thoughts with WatchDog Nation. Jobs, families and leisure activities are no excuse, people.
This week's winner is "jcf61" for his long, thoughtful comment after the post in which I reported that CBS president Les Moonves used to deliver Newsday in Valley Stream, but I did not offer much else of use to readers.
Click below to read the entire comment.
John is not quite correct in assuming Ca-Boom is mostly attracting young listeners on WFAN. Plenty of people - well, men, anyway - over 40 are tuning in.
But he is dead on in taking me to task for not at least asking Mr. Moonves to go on the record during our discussion of the program that replaced Don Imus, whom Moonves canned him in 2007. (WFAN is owned by CBS Radio.)
I regretted not doing so as soon as our chat was over. The only thing I can do to atone is to ask CBS public relations for another chance. I will throw myself on the mercy of a former Newsday paper boy.
That has to work, right?
Hearty congratulations to long-time contributer DuMont Burger for posting the 17,500th comment in WatchDog history, as usual displaying his vast knowledge of TV history with this offering about the picture three posts down of old-school CBS execs:
The two gentlemen pictured with the dinosaur technology [mechanical color television ca. 1951] are CBS founder William S. Paley [who lived in Manhasset and never delivered Newsday, but maybe should have bought it from Mrs. Patterson and Mr. Guggenheim] and his trusted #2 Frank Stanton.
If they could see now what they have wrought ....
FYI speaking of broadcast history today's the 50th anniversary of Edward R. Murrow's "tv is just lights and wires in a box" speech.
Still lights and wires in a box, but it's high-def and full of screamers.
(That's it for me for now. I am headed to an undisclosed location to prepare for my live chat at 11 a.m. See you then.)
It's always fun to watch Syracuse sports fans suffer, which is the basis of my pick for this week's comment contest award.
Our winner is "Andy," in response to my remark in a post about the Ernie Davis movie "The Express" that young readers might not be aware the Orangemen used to play home games outdoors.
Wroteth Andy: "As a Syracuse alum, this movie also serves as a reminder that SU used to play meaningful games that they'd even win occasionally."
In November of 1979 I attended what I assume was Syracuse's last "home" game outdoors. BC defeated the Orangemen at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca near the end of a season in which Syracuse played "home" games in Buffalo, Giants Stadium and Ithaca while the Carrier Dome was constructed.
Art Monk and Joe Morris played on that team, I believe. Way more people showed up than do for Cornell home games.
I still have not seen "The Express." Evidently Universal's public relations people don't know where to find me, as I'm kind of shy and not given to self-promotion. I'll take my daughter over the weekend and charge Newsday.
So far the critics have been somewhat mixed, but mostly positive. Newsday gave it three stars. Here is the review.
Is Glauber eligible to win the comment contest? I'm not sure. But I'm giving him the award anyway for his rambling, existential treatise on the Zen of blogging.
It was in the comments section of this post about Stephon Marbury hugging Newsday's Ken Berger, which veered off in strange, unpredictable directions.
The highlight was Glauber, who pondered the goofy self-indulgence of blogging with a goofy, self-indulgent blog comment.
Click below to read it.
This week's comment contest winner, in a runaway, is Sandy, who responded to my request for Shea Stadium with a shockingly eclectic list of events witnessed there, including Grand Funk Railroad (video above).
I'm assuming it's all accurate and that these things really happened, because you can't make this stuff up.
Click below for the winning comment.
I'm presenting the comment contest award a day early so I can ignore the blog long enough to do my job and write a newspaper column.
The big winner: Alan from Ridge.
After Mike Francesa said Tuesday no one had come within "two football fields" of estimating his salary, and I in turn wondered how many bills and in what denomination it would take to cover a field, Alan did the math.
I have no idea if this is right, and I don't care. It's the thought that counts.
"Great job, Neil. I especially loved the one about the money and the football field. I can't resist a challenge, so here goes. The standard size of American paper currency is 6 inches long by 2 1/2 inches wide (I just measured the currency in my wallet). Laid end-to-end, it takes 720 bills to cover the length of a football field (120 yards = 360 feet x 2 bills/foot). To cover the entire field, you would need 768 rows of bills (football field =53 1/3 yards wide = 160 feet = 1920 inches divided by 2 1/2 inches/bill). Therefore, 768 rows of 720 bills comes to 552,960 bills to cover the field. So it would take a combination of 105,920 $1 bills and 447,040 $2 bills to cover a football field with $1 million.
Now, my lunch break is over and I have to get back to work!"
This week's comment contest winner is "twilight12" for his/her contribution to the debate over a suitable name for the new Jets/Giants stadium:
"How about the Jolly Green Giant Stadium?"
Yes, I am aware this is not the first time the idea ever has been proposed, but it makes more sense than ever, given the unpleasantness this week regarding the fact the German-based insurance giant Allianz has been in discussions to secure naming rights despite its close ties to the Nazis in the 20th century.
If I'm Allianz, here is what I am thinking at this stage:
So far we've paid nothing for millions of dollars worth of negative publicity. Do we stop now and forget the whole thing, or pay $30 million a year for millions of dollars worth of more negative publicity?
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