The Derek Jeter Center

[I Are Baboon]

A Yankee fan has won the naming rights to the Fleet Center, and he wants to name it the Derek Jeter Center.

OK, that is FUNNY! :laff:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/specials/spring_training/2005/02/25/bc.bba.derekjetercenter.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

[PissedPrincess]

I have rejected this proposal.

[Cyberlibrarian]

That is pretty funny!

[rowdyBostonfan]

geez nothing more then one day thing and they might not even approve it

[Cyberlibrarian]

A friend at another board saw this story, and her reaction was priceless.

She said that they should agree to the name, but only if they call it the "Fcuking Derek Jeter Center." It's her considered opinion that the profanity will cancel out the obscenity.

:laff:

[cxlx]

If anything, name it "Jeter Sucks and ARod Swallows" :notme:

[ksushi]

hahaha thats so awesome. that would really be a kick in the balls

[Timberwolf]

I am glad you folks found it funny. That's how I would look at it too rather than react to it.

I hope it's approved. It's a one-day thing. The guy won the contest so he is entititled to do whatever he wants.

[BayStateBabe]

Off espn.com:

On Tuesday, New York attorney Kerry Konrad won the right in an eBay auction to name Boston's FleetCenter for a day. For his $2,325, Konrad wanted to honor the New York Yankees shortstop.

But, on Friday, FleetCenter officials rejected the name, which Konrad hoped would add to the 25-year rivalry he has had with his former college classmates who are Boston Red Sox fans.

"We decided that all the names had to be rated G, and this name was determined to be obscene and vulgar," said Richard A. Krezwick, president and chief executive of the FleetCenter, which has auctioned off daily naming rights to about a dozen companies since its contract with the bank was terminated. "We were afraid of the volume of phone calls bogging down our switchboard, the number of e-mails clogging our portal and the potential graffiti on the side of our building."

When reached at his office, Konrad said he was not disappointed.

"I had no idea that this joke would get so much attention in the first place," Konrad said. "It was a joke. I've already had my laugh. But I could have made it much worse, like the A-Rod Center, Bucky Dent Center, the Aaron Boone Center, or the 'Only 25 More [championships] To Go' Center."
Apparently the obscenity of that name is the consensus opinion :D

[cxlx]

A local offered to outbid Konrad by $8600 (for 86 year curse) and was accepted. So the Fleet Center is now going to be called the Jimmy Fund Center for a day. :thumbsup:

[dodgerdave]

They should call it the Miguel Tejada Center because he's the best SS in baseball right now.

[ksushi]

or.... the dick vermiel center, if they name it after him he'll cry and its been like a month since ive seen him cry

[Cyberlibrarian]

I had no idea that this joke would get so much attention in the first place," Konrad said. "It was a joke. I've already had my laugh. But I could have made it much worse, like the A-Rod Center, Bucky Dent Center, the Aaron Boone Center, or the 'Only 25 More [championships] To Go' Center."

Idiot. He obviously think the world began in 1923, when the Skanks won their first WS. The Sox had won 4 before the carpetbaggers from Baltimore had even sniffed their first one. So there are only 21 more to go, not 25.

;)

[metsfan001]

A similar thing happened when Fark won the naming rights for a day (they're doing this for two weeks or something) and got rejected for "The Duke Sucks Center."

[rowdyBostonfan]

It's official

The Garden is Back!!! (http://www.patriotsweekly.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=241&mode=thread&order=1&thold=0)