Cardinals Stadium gets new name

[Blade]

I think they should have choosen The Pink Taco Stadium personally....

Cardinals get collegiate feel
University of Phoenix buys naming rights to stadium

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- The University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private university, will pay $154.5 million over 20 years for the right to put its name on the Arizona Cardinals' new stadium here, team officials said Tuesday.

The naming-rights deal is the first sports-marketing venture for Apollo Group Inc., the University of Phoenix's parent company, said Apollo President Brian Mueller, and is part of a major new branding campaign for the school.

The for-profit University of Phoenix has 250,000 students, most of them working adults. Its parent company had $2.3 billion in revenue last year, ranking it among Arizona's largest companies.

"We want to lend more credibility to the students who earn degrees from here," Mueller said.

The stadium also is the new home of the Fiesta Bowl, and in January, will host the first of the new national college championship games. It also will be the site of the 2008 Super Bowl.

[Rocky Raccoon]

so wait, it's now called University of Phoenix Stadium?

it will always be Pink Taco stadium to me

EDIT: and I think their stadium is beautiful too.

[DolfanDaveInATX]

Only the Cardinals could spend nearly 20 years trying to get out of playing in a college stadium, and then two weeks after moving into their own stadium, sell the naming rights for the next 20 years to...a college. :spit:

[unifiedtheory]

Originally Posted by DolfanDaveInATX

Only the Cardinals could spend nearly 20 years trying to get out of playing in a college stadium, and then two weeks after moving into their own stadium, sell the naming rights for the next 20 years to...a college. :spit:

[dominizzo]

Beautiful Stadium if u ask me