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this exceptional about the renaming of sports teams. It opens:

"Sports fans gain got long been accustomed to stadiums as well as arenas taking on corporate build names. Consider Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play, the Washington Redskins's FedEx Field and, of course, the domicile of the Houston Astros, known briefly every bit Enron Field.

But the recent buy of a Major League Soccer squad past times the unloose energy drinkable companionship Red Bull has taken naming rights a footstep further. This month, the soccer squad formerly known every bit the MetroStars converted to the New York Red Bulls.

It is a advert alter that some marketers promise volition opened upwardly a novel forepart inwards the commercialization of professional person sports. Red Bull, which is based inwards Austria, paid the Anschutz Entertainment Group to a greater extent than than $100 1000000 this calendar month for the rights to the MetroStars club, a portion of a planned stadium as well as the stadium's naming rights.

The squad forthwith acquired the Red Bull name, as well as at the opening game on Apr 2, players volition don jerseys bearing the Red Bull logo".

was already getting a niggling worried past times something at this betoken - exactly then was the writer of the article, who writes:

"But at that spot are also potential pitfalls for marketers: What if the brand, or the team, goes south?

"The opportunity is, What happens to the squad when a production starts selling badly?" said Allen Adamson, managing manager of Landor Associates, the build as well as corporate identity means that is purpose of the Young & Rubicam Brands partitioning of the WPP Group. "It is a rattling risky strategy. Especially when yous direct something that's both an unloose energy drinkable as well as an alcoholic mixer."

The obvious danger of the straight association is that the companionship cannot easily disassociate from the team, or vice versa, Mr. Westerbeck said.

"The squad actually goes out as well as becomes a build ambassador for the product," he said, adding that spell naming rights on stadiums are oftentimes changed, it would move to a greater extent than hard to alter a squad name. "The name, of course, tin dismiss move changed again, exactly correct at nowadays it's similar a tattoo"".

says, that could easily move a instance of Red Bull. Red Faces. Merpel notwithstanding is at nowadays speculating on other forms of tie-in, for instance the police trace theatre that takes on the build advert of 1 of its clients. Might nosotros await such treasures every bit Finnegan Henderson & Winnie the Pooh (F&H gain got done move for Walt Disney, later all), or Fross Zelnick Maidenform Muppet ...