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The wrong way around, but the one I love is the Astro Dome. Not named after Astro Turf, but the owner certainly knew what he was doing when he gave both products the same name.
Two different owners. The Astrodome came first. Then Monsanto invented something called ChemGrass. When they installed it in the Astrodome, Monsanto renamed it Astroturf.
Marlins Park has been cited.
Nationals Park, in D.C.
Globe Life Park, home of the Texas Rangers, was called just “The Ballpark in Arlington” when it opened in 1994.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards, of course.
Yankee Stadium.
Paul Brown Stadium, home of the Cincinnati Bengals.
That’s it.
Dodger Stadium too.
Arguably Dodger Stadium,Yankee Stadium, Marlins Park, Nationals Park, and Oriole Park ARE named after companies, but I’m thinking that’s not what the OP meant.
Shea Stadium was unique in that it wasn’t named for an owner, team name, city name, street name, or business.
It was named after William Shea, a lawyer who was instrumental in bringing the National League to New York.
Hell, it wasn’t “Globe Life” until pretty recently. It was Ameriquest Field from 2004-2007, and then Globe Life Park from 2014-2018. The rest of the time it was either “The Ballpark in Arlington” or 'Rangers Ballpark in Arlington". Truth be told, most of the time people have always called it “The Ballpark in Arlington”, with only TV talking heads calling it by the corporate name.
And FWIW, AT&T Stadium tends to be called “Jerryworld” around here a LOT. About as much as “Cowboys Stadium” or “AT&T Stadium” I’d say, with even the local news people calling it by that name.
Also, the Astrodome and Astroturf are both named after the team- the Houston Astros, who renamed themselves from the “Colt 45s” in 1965 when they moved into the Astrodome. I suppose it could be a chicken or egg situation, but in the mid-late 1960s through the 1970s, Houston was enamored with all things space and space program related, so we had the Astros, Rockets and Aeros (baseball, basketball and hockey) all starting about the same time. Never have figured out why the Oilers didn’t end up with a space-age name like the other teams though.
Of course the Houston Rockets were already the Rockets when they moved from San Diego in 1971. The Houston Oilers are the oldest of all the teams you mention dating back to 1960. What’s now the Johnson Space Center wasn’t even planned until 1961 and wasn’t occupied until 1963.
What became* Turner Field was named for Ted Turner, a former owner of the Atlanta Braves. This is somewhat moot in that it is now Georgia State Stadium or something like that and the Braves don’t play there any more. But still.
*After the Olympics were through using it.
at NC State the old BB arena was named for William Neal Reynolds of the Reynolds tobacco family. He did not like BB and never attended a game there. It was named for him by a relative who donated money for the construction. He graduated from Wake Forest, a rival school of NC State
When your family pays that much money to move a school across the state, it’s rude not to at least get one degree from it.
CenturyLink Field (“The Clink”) where the Seahawks play in Seattle was originally “Seahawks Stadium” when it opened in 2002. It then became “Qwest Field” in 2004, named after the telecommunications company Qwest which bought the naming rights. When Qwest was bought by CenturyLink in 2011 the new company renamed the stadium. CenturyLink has naming rights through 2033.
I didn’t realize the Oilers were quite that old; I thought they were roughly a 1961-1962 team, concurrent with the JSC building, which made me wonder why they were not named in the theme with the other teams.
And I had no idea that the Rockets were from San Diego. That’s a bit of trivia that is pretty much not publicized at all in Houston.
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This thread would probably fit a bit better in the Game Room. Moving.
The stated condition was “built in the last 30 years.” Dodger Stadium, of course, is over fifty years old.
In baseball, ballpark construction in the last thirty years actually starts with a stadium I forgot - Toronto’s Rogers Centre, which was called simply “SkyDome” when it was built in 1989 until 2005, so, like Arlington, it qualified at one point. It’ll pass the 30-year mark this June, though.
“SkyDome” doesn’t refer to anything except the retractable roof. It was picked from a name-the-stadium contest.
My favorite entry was “The Taxpayers Get Ripped Off Again Dome”.
Whoops, that went by me. Thanks.