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Id8jlb8666
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 12:12 AM |
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Gotta agree with NJDevils 100%. Unfortunately, I imagine the major American sports will follow suit sooner or later.
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switzr1
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 12:36 AM |
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Small price to pay for a sport that doesn't have commercials. (except halftime obviously)
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NJDevils
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 7:22 AM |
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From a casual observer of soccer who doesn't recognize teams by their unis: Last time I turned on a soccer game, I thought Schweppes was playing Nestle's.
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xv3thekid
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 9:31 AM |
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NJDevils. You are not far off. It is common for any soccer team to pick up its main sponsor's name for a season or two or even more. Even major national leagues pick up sponsor names. Its like, instead of Major League Baseball, it would be Budwiser Baseball League for a year and then Chevrolette Baseball League the next.
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deporcoruña
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:14 PM |
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Hey guys, soccer is not an American sport. It has different culture, and goes with a different train of thought. You can't compare sponsorships that way.
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NJDevils
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 12:09 PM |
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Soccer is an American sport. Futbol is not. Seriously though, most professional teams in the US and Canada (basball, football, basketball, hockey) do not have "sponsors". These teams merely have owners. The sponsors are for TV, radio and advertising in the stadium. I simply hate advertising on unis. If Europeans and South Americans have no problem with it, that is their prerogative.
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Billy Kingsley
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 4:17 PM |
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Actually, they used
to, here in the
USA. Before WWII,
sponsored teams
were the norm, at
least in
basketball. There
was no national
league, but there
were MANY regional
leagues, and most
of the teams had
sponsors. All but
one of them are now
nothing but a
memory, except the
Boston Celtics.
They are the only
survivor, and also
why they have a
card on the
Database dating to
1933, when the NBA
itself dates only
to 1946 (as the
BAA). I am not
familiar with the
histories of the
other sports but I
could provide
photos of local
sponsored teams
that are on display
at the Hudson
Valley Sports
Museum and also a
team sponsored by
Studebaker that had
a photo in the
Studebaker Museum
in South Bend,
Indiana when I
visited there in
2003.
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NJDevils
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 4:53 PM |
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I am only speaking of current major leagues in north america, baseball, hockey, football, basketball. Heck, when I played little league, we had an oil company's name on it. My point is professional major leagues with ads on the unis look cheap. I understand that semi-pro teams had to have adverstising on the unis years ago. Before the Chicago Bears there was the Chicago Staleys. All I am saying is that you have a major professional team in any sport, class it up a bit and take the advertising off. But if soccer feels a need for this, fine.
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deporcoruña
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 5:08 PM |
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NJ I beg to differ. Soccer is not an American sport. The word soccer comes from England. Long ago when soccer and rugby was played in public schools, and were considerred the same game called FOOTBALL. The rules were not clear. I don't know who proposed it, but when a bunch of men got together at the University of Cambridge and came up with a bunch of rules for what is considerred today what you call soccer. What came away from that meeting was not agreed upon by all. They split into two groups. One was called rugby because, I believe, the guys that went away upset, were from a town or school called "rugby". I don't remember which. The rest from that meeting, set up an association. From that piont on, one was called "rugby football", and the other was called "association football". People who played association football were called "soccers" for short because the word "soccer" comes from the "soc" in association. Over the years, association football gained so much popularity they just called it football. The word "futbol" you see, is just the phonetic spelling of the word "football" in spanish. They never changed the actual name of the game. The word "soccer" was revived here in North America because Amercan football already had the name. Everywhere else it's still called football except here.
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NJDevils
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 5:57 PM |
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I already stated that 2 comments back:
NJDevils wrote: Soccer is an American sport. Futbol is not. Seriously though, most professional teams in the US and Canada (basball, football, basketball, hockey) do not have "sponsors". These teams merely have owners. The sponsors are for TV, radio and advertising in the stadium. I simply hate advertising on unis. If Europeans and South Americans have no problem with it, that is their prerogative.
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