Real Salt Lake’s Stadium to be Named for a Coal Mining Company?
By: Laurie | September 29th, 2008
When it comes to stadium naming rights, I suppose you can’t do worse than FC Dallas’s Pizza Hut Park. Or The Colorado Rapids’ Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, which will be affectionately known, forever, as “The Dick.”
But I think Real Salt Lake has to get the award for Most Unusual Sponsor for their stadium, which officially opens October 9 as Rio Tinto Stadium.
And if you’re like me, you’re thinking, “Uh… huh… wha…?” So let me enlighten you, as the Salt Lake Tribune enlightened me:
The new home of the Real Salt Lake soccer team will be known as Rio Tinto Stadium, under the terms of a naming-rights deal with the world’s largest coal-mining company that is set to be announced at a press conference Monday.
The Rio Tinto Group, the multi-billion-dollar mining conglomerate that owns Kennecott Utah Copper and the sprawling Daybreak housing development in South Jordan, will pay between $1.5 million and $2 million annually for 15 years under terms of the deal, sources said.
Because soccer and coal mining? Like peanut butter and jelly. Or ham and eggs. Or Alexi Lalas and bizarre statements.
Oh, wait. Wrong team.
But we’ll just ignore all of this and congratulate RSL on selling their rights for a pretty penny and bringing even more bucks into MLS.
Think this will make them raise the Developmental Players’ salaries to $13,000 a year?
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Think this will make them raise the Developmental Players’ salaries to $13,000 a year?
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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