Self Help Name Change For Our Stadiums

The media is reporting that stadiums are going through an identity crisis because the banks with naming rights to them are changing hands so rapidly. But think about what naming rights have done to these very important public places: the Eagles used to play in a stadium named after President Kennedy, and then one dedicated to veterans, and now one named for a bank. That's pathetic.

If we were building suspension bridges today, something makes me think they wouldn't be named after poets and visionaries (walt whitman and ben franklin). We'd be taking the Commerce Bank bridge into Philly.

So I propose that we refuse to call these stadiums by their sponsor's names, and instead give them proper names. If enough people do it, the name will stick - and then we don't have to worry about mergers and take overs.