So the Arizona Cardinals moved out of Sun Devil Stadium (home of the ASU Sun Devils) and got themselves a new state-of-the-art facility in Glendale, a city in the west valley. By all accounts it is a sweet stadium.
With Super Bowl XLII in 2008 on the horizon, the naming rights for the new stadium are up for grabs and the Cardinals went with ... University of Phoenix Stadium. Yup. $154.5 million later and a 20-year deal and those powerhouses of the NFL are willing to sound like a freeking college team. At least they play like one.
UoP, for those that dont know is a for-profit school that is largely online-based. The Cardinals are a for-profit franchise that is largely are losers.
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It's probably hard to outbid the only Phoenix-area billionaires (John and Peter Sperling) still running a local business. (Bennett Dorrance is heir to part of the Campbell's Soup money; Arturo Moreno and William Levine sold their billboard business, Outdoor Systems, to Infinity Broadcasting years ago.)
The college football national championship in Jan of 2007 will be played in a stadium named after an online diploma mill.
By the way, it was thisclose to being named Pink Taco Stadium.
Yeah, I was disappointed with the naming...
I was hoping they would name it Tillman Stadium.