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Rugby Saint II 08-18-2012 12:01 PM

What happened to the Super Dome?
 
When Mercedes Benz bought the naming rights to the Super Dome a lot of folks were upset that it would no longer be called by the name we love. Most folks just agreed that we would always call it the Super Dome.........already it is just refered to as the Dome quite often in the forums. Times change I guess.
Although, the Mercedes Benz Super Dome does have a nice ring to it.:bng:

Euphoria 08-18-2012 12:18 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
I have always called it "The Dome". I don't think anything has changed.

SaintsBro 08-18-2012 12:52 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
I dunno, man. People I know have always called it "the Dome" when saying affectionate things like "the Dome will be rocking" or "we would have won that if it had been in the Dome"or whatever. It's been a nickname going back to the beginning, Dome Patrol etc. "The Louisiana Superdome" was always more like the proper name a TV announcer would say, but normal people just said Superdome or Dome, going way back. And now it's Mercedes-Benz Superdome on TV but nothing has really changed for anybody else, as far as I can tell. I would still say "Superdome" if I was giving an out-of-towner directions on Poydras, "go past the Superdome and turn left on Claiborne, up the little ramp there" or something.

alexonfyre 08-18-2012 01:21 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
I call it the MBSD because I'm an idiot.

AlaskaSaints 08-18-2012 03:15 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
After five Pat O's Hurricanes, mid-day Sunday, the horseback NOPD officer spots you stumbling horribly down the street.

"Where you headed, son?'

"Da Mercy.. Da Mercedy... Da Mer-bedez... Da ***in' Dome!"


LOL

Alaska

TheOak 08-18-2012 03:19 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II (Post 429025)
When Mercedes Benz bought the naming rights to the Super Dome a lot of folks were upset that it would no longer be called by the name we love. Most folks just agreed that we would always call it the Super Dome.........already it is just refered to as the Dome quite often in the forums. Times change I guess.
Although, the Mercedes Benz Super Dome does have a nice ring to it.:bng:

It has a nice "bling to it".... I am not an admirer of bling.


Its been "the dome" to me for the last 35 years. Everything else I call by name Astro Dome, Cajun Dome...

AsylumGuido 08-18-2012 04:38 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by x626xBlack (Post 429054)
It has a nice "bling to it".... I am not an admirer of bling.


Its been "the dome" to me for the last 35 years. Everything else I call by name Astro Dome, Cajun Dome...

The Falcon's fans call their place the dome, too. Show how misplaced they are ...


... it'is a frickin' tent.

Rugby Saint II 08-18-2012 06:34 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Maybe it's because I don't live in New Orleans any more. I call it the Super Dome now.

Halo 08-18-2012 08:03 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II (Post 429089)
Maybe it's because I don't live in New Orleans any more. I call it the Super Dome now.

I live here and NOBODY I know calls it the "Mercedes-Benz Superdome" EVER!
It's "The Dome" or "The Superdome."

They can call it whatever on TV for what anyone cares here. Just sayin'.
We're also used to Hollywood portraying "the Sheriff" of New Orleans as someone who sounds like Boss Hog. It's duly ignored.

What I do like is we have the MOST POSH, UPSCALE Stadium naming-right corporate sponsor of any team in the NFL. Funny how after Katrina people laughed at us for saying the team would ever return. Much less if someone even dare "implied" Mercedes-Benz would EVER be the sponsor of the Superdome on a TEN YEAR deal, or the Superdome would ever open again.... they would have been laughed off the television.

pumpkindriver 08-18-2012 09:17 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
I still call it the Super Dome and I was originally very much against selling the naming rights to MB. Over time though I have slowly changed my mind and kinda like that it is the Merecedes Benz Super Dome now. I look at all the other companies that have bought naming rights and well I'm sorry but none of them quite compare. Lucas oil, Met life and others kinda look pedestrian next to Merecedes Benz.

alexonfyre 08-18-2012 09:46 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Halo (Post 429103)
I live here and NOBODY I know calls it the "Mercedes-Benz Superdome" EVER!
It's "The Dome" or "The Superdome."

They can call it whatever on TV for what anyone cares here. Just sayin'.
We're also used to Hollywood portraying "the Sheriff" of New Orleans as someone who sounds like Boss Hog. It's duly ignored.

What I do like is we have the MOST POSH, UPSCALE Stadium naming-right corporate sponsor of any team in the NFL. Funny how after Katrina people laughed at us for saying the team would ever return. Much less if someone even dare "implied" Mercedes-Benz would EVER be the sponsor of the Superdome on a TEN YEAR deal, or the Superdome would ever open again.... they would have been laughed off the television.

I think I would have preferred the "Tony Chachere's Super Dome"

alleycat_126 08-19-2012 12:09 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
I don't know about you all but, although I am a Superdome buff, I have gotten kinda use to callin it " THE BENZ".

4everSaint 08-19-2012 12:19 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
I call it the Thunder Dome.

Utah_Saint 08-19-2012 12:34 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by alexonfyre (Post 429121)
I think I would have preferred the "Tony Chachere's Super Dome"

And maybe paint it green?

Wilde18 08-19-2012 12:52 PM

No matter about the sponsors name. It is and will always be the Superdome!


Somewhere over the rainbow!

saintsfan601 08-20-2012 10:14 AM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
It's the superdome. The end.

TheOak 08-20-2012 10:42 AM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Maybe I just have an aversion to "Benz" or "Beemer", luxary names. We are not a silky britches kind of team. I just think the Mercedes emblem lends a certain cheese to itself.

I would prefer one of the following sponsors:
Hummer Dome
Kobalt Dome
Craftsman Dome
Winchester Dome
Blue Ribbon Dacon Dome
WD-40 Dome
Ducktape Dome
RedJacket Dome
..... "anything manly" Dome

sharke 08-20-2012 01:28 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Always referred to it as Superdome (yes, as one word).....

unless I've had a few and begin on my absurd pompous statements regarding the Saints, then it's THE Mercedes Bienz Super Dome...

Rugby Saint II 08-20-2012 01:32 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
It's been over two decades since I lived in New Orleans. I think that back then I called it the Dome. I call it the Super Dome now.

skymike 08-20-2012 06:07 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
I understand you have to have all these bulls&1t corporate naming deals, to
try to keep up with escalating salaries, and the astronomical costs of paying the players, etc, so I wont hate on it. Love him or not, we NEED Benson to be a rich man, and to continue being rich, if you want the Saints to compete.

That said, I wish some things were sacred. I no longer have any clue what stadium is what, with all the crap dumbazz "Bank One"s, and Capital Ones, and
Quest, and corporate garbage. I love how Lambeau is still "Lambeau Field," not Roto Rooter Lambeau Field, or Ex Lax Stadium, or Summers Eve Field.... its Lambeau. As it should be.

Stadiums should be named after dead people, veterans, big sombreros, astros, busch's, and counties. (like Milwaukee, Fulton & - say it like Cosell: "Oookland Alllameeda Coliseummmm.... home of tha Raydas" ) Or candlesticks. This is where legend stuff happens.... not at some douchy corporate named morgue, like Reliant Stadium.

Every time I look at "Reliant" Stadium, I want to puke. It defiles the magnificence and history of the Astrodome, and its stupid. If the Astros played in the Astrodome, people would come, just to see the Dome. The Astros have sucked more than they've been good, and people did exactly that--- and management knew it--- so they sold the whole Astrodomain experience.

Anyway, I've gone on one of my tangents. Its the Superdome to me. You cant make me say the corporate name. My grooms cake did not have a corporate name. It was just the Superdome.

mutineer10 08-20-2012 07:40 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
It's the Superdome or the Dome to me. I was a little worried Mercedes Benz would go overboard following the deal, but except for a few very conspicuous logos, they've mostly kept the Dome's integrity intact.

SaintsBro 08-20-2012 08:20 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by skymike (Post 429733)
named after veterans

^^^^ this ^^^^^^^

Luda34 08-20-2012 10:37 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Superdome

jeanpierre 08-20-2012 11:12 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
What happened to the Superdome?

That's a loaded question - no one brings there kids there except anal-retentive lawyers who probably have them signed to a politically correct, prohibitive public display of fandom collective binding agreement...

Now, money guys bring hoes before bros - the only screaming these girls can do was done before there current round of plastic surgery...

Guess it's the downside of winning?!?

Rather be in a bar with B&G Brothers on Magazine St that way I don't have to geaux far for the pre/post game tailgating!

subguy 08-21-2012 01:11 AM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
I have always called it the SuperDome...not sure it really matters what I refer to it as.

SaintsBro 08-21-2012 10:27 AM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mutineer10 (Post 429760)
It's the Superdome or the Dome to me. I was a little worried Mercedes Benz would go overboard following the deal, but except for a few very conspicuous logos, they've mostly kept the Dome's integrity intact.

Well inside they went pretty freaking insane with all the murals everywhere. Not that I mind or care. But definitely the bottom levels (where the money is) are overflowing with Mercedes crap everywhere your eye can land. Some people might say that it's overboard.

UK_WhoDat 08-21-2012 02:04 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Superdome

skymike 08-21-2012 06:41 PM

Re: What happened to the Super Dome?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by jeanpierre (Post 429844)
What happened to the Superdome?

That's a loaded question - no one brings there kids there except anal-retentive lawyers who probably have them signed to a politically correct, prohibitive public display of fandom collective binding agreement...

Now, money guys bring hoes before bros - the only screaming these girls can do was done before there current round of plastic surgery...

Guess it's the downside of winning?!?

Rather be in a bar with B&G Brothers on Magazine St that way I don't have to geaux far for the pre/post game tailgating!

JP, B&G tailgate on Magazine St. is a great idea!


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