Pressure to have teams playing in home stadiums and arenas to placate corporate sponsors

[True Dough]

I heard discussion on sports talk radio this evening about pro sports leagues trying to figure out how to accommodate corporate sponsors with stadiums and arenas named after them. Those corporate interests are pressuring leagues to have teams playing home games in their arenas and stadiums again so that their brands and name recognition are getting the publicity that they paid for.

Kind of crazy that leagues are trying to make things as safe as possible during the Covid pandemic but may move away from hubs just to the 1 percenters continue to get their money's worth. Bastards.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Every NFL game this year has taken place in the exact same place it would have

if there was no COVID.

This is clearly not about football, and I'm not aware of other sports that just wrapped up (MLB and NBA) not playing in their normal venues either ...

[True Dough]

2. NBA and NHL played in bubbles

The NBA games were held on courts at Walt Disney World. The National Hockey League held all of its playoff games in Edmonton and Toronto.

[mr_lebowski]

3. That's right forgot about the NBA thing ...

Didn't know about the Hockey.

I can kinda see their point ... but the proper course may be to refund some of their money if the games still shouldn't be there for health/safety reasons.

[Auggie]

4. Blame MLB, postseason