# Non-local companies with stadium naming rights **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 22, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974 "2013-05-22T00:09:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974/21 "2013-05-22T18:12:56Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > And Southwestern Bell used to be located in San Antonio- they now belong to AT&T, too. To be off topic, Southwestern Bell bought AT&T. Then adopted the AT&T name. Which is funny because Southwestern Bell was originally part of a larger phone company called …AT&T. Here in Columbus, we have all local venues. Nationwide Arena - adjacent to Nationwide Insurance, and originally owned by Nationwide. Huntington Park - Huntington Bank, located a few blocks away. Value City Arena - Value City furniture is headquartered in Columbus. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974/22 "2013-05-22T18:31:37Z")
**Rick** -TD bought Fleet, the former namesake of the arena. (Fleet is local to Boston IIRC) ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974/23 "2013-05-22T20:31:57Z")
The Toyota Center is in Houston. I’m pretty sure they sell Toyotas in Houston, but their American corporate presence is in the Los Angeles area. Adelphia Coliseum is the original name of LP Field in Nashville. They were a cable company HQ’d in Pennsylvania that didn’t serve Nashville (or Tennessee), although they had a (very) secondary business telecom company in Nashville in case you really really hated BellSouth. Speaking of BellSouth, they were HQ’d in Atlanta before getting bought by AT&T. AT&T Field (formerly BellSouth Field) is a minor-league baseball stadium in Chattanooga, TN. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974/24 "2013-05-26T20:26:19Z")
I think the LA Galaxy play at Toyota Stadium. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974/25 "2013-05-28T16:22:51Z")
> [@Cumbrian](#): > > In England, there is the Emirates Stadium (where Arsenal play) and the Etihad Stadium (where Manchester City play) - both being airlines run out of the Middle East. There’s also the [Kia Oval Cricket Ground](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oval_Cricket_Ground) in London, named for a South Korean car manufacturer, and also [Emirates Old Trafford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Trafford_Cricket_Ground) and the [Emirates Durham International Cricket Ground](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Ground) (seeing a pattern here?) as well as the [Ageas Bowl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl,_Southampton), named for a Dutch insurance company, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974/26 "2013-06-02T15:04:00Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The Boston Bruins play in the TD Bank Arena, which is named after the TD (Toronto Dominion) Bank group of companies, which isn’t even headquartered in the United States. > > The Philadelphia Flyers, meanwhile, skate in the Wells Fargo Center. Wells Fargo is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded in New York. Nitpick: TD obviously stands fot Toronto-Dominion, but TD Garden is named after Toronto-Dominion’s US subsudiary, TD Bank. TD Bank was based in Maine, but now New Jersey, I think. The arena was known as TD BankNorth Garden before TD completely took over. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974/27 "2013-06-02T15:09:12Z")
Chase is headquartered in Chicago but we’ve got Chase Field here in Phoenix. ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974/28 "2013-06-02T15:50:29Z")
Citizens Bank doesn’t have a Philadelphia connection that I can see, other than having some branches there. It is headquartered in Rhode Island. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974/29 "2013-06-02T18:49:45Z")
> [@ReticulatingSplines](#): > > Citizens Bank doesn’t have a Philadelphia connection that I can see, other than having some branches there. It is headquartered in Rhode Island. Though, the ultimate headquarters aren’t in the U.S. at all; it’s owned by RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland Group)…and RBS, itself, is now primarily owned by the UK government (after the financial meltdown a few years ago). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-local-companies-with-stadium-naming-rights/658974.md?page=1)