# Taking Baseball Fan Loyalty to the logical extreme -- caskets and urns

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**Created:** [December 1, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-baseball-fan-loyalty-to-the-logical-extreme-caskets-and-urns/475176 "2008-12-01T13:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-baseball-fan-loyalty-to-the-logical-extreme-caskets-and-urns/475176/1 "2008-12-01T13:44:16Z")

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[http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/01/for\_sox\_fans\_eternally/](http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/01/for_sox_fans_eternally/)

The urn comes with a baseball that mourners at the funeral can sign.  
According to the article,

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> Not surprisingly, the Yankees and Red Sox urns have been locked in a close race for the sales lead - ahead of all other teams and products.

This is only the tip of the iceberg – surely there will be football logos, basketball logos. The article mentions Star Trek, which I would have predicted (“Now! You can go to your eternal rest in a Spock Photon Torpedo Casket!”). But the Vatican Library???

What – to steal an advertising line from the 1980s – do you want on YOUR Tombstone?

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-baseball-fan-loyalty-to-the-logical-extreme-caskets-and-urns/475176/2 "2008-12-01T14:32:52Z")

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The football stadium of Athletic Club de Bilbao, San Mamés, is named after a saint; therefore it’s known as The Cathedral. They’re now building a new stadium which will also be called San Mamés: Bilbaínos are traditionalists and they want to go on calling the footie stadium the Cathedral.

Last week on the news:

City Hall has denied the permits necessary to have a space under the partial ceiling (the grassy area itself doesn’t get a ceiling but the seats do) where funerary urns of club members could be stored. Apparently the Cathedral theme is only allowed to go so far.