Posted Feb 2, 2020, 3:21 AM
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Rational urbanist
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Metro Vancouver
Posts: 5,270
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Originally Posted by Acajack
Yeah. SkyDome is a "legacy" name that's hard to kill off, and ACC just rolls off the tongue nicely.
The new(ish) Habs' arena never had a legacy name when it was built, and as you say Molson didn't have much time to get entrenched. Getting people to use a new corporate name for the old Forum, though, would have been next to impossible.
And I just checked and Wrigley Field is named for the founder of the chewing gum company, and not really the company or the product specifically.
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People started saying Rogers Arena vs GM Place real quick here.
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