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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 02:25 AM Feb 2013

Florida Atlantic Football Stadium Will Be Named For Private Prison Company

via Occupy The Hood L.A. Action Assembly

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/florida-atlantic-football-stadium_n_2720223.html

For more than two years, Florida Atlantic University has been searching for the name of a corporate sponsor to adorn its new 30,000-seat, palm-ringed football stadium.

The public university on Tuesday announced an unconventional partner: the nation's second-largest operator of for-profit prisons, the GEO Group Inc. The newly christened GEO Group Stadium came as part of a $6 million donation from the prison company's charitable foundation, which will be paid out to Florida Atlantic over 12 years.

America has a long tradition of unusual corporate athletic sponsorships -- Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena and Houston's Enron Field (now Minute Maid Park) come to mind. But the GEO Group Stadium puzzled several experienced sports marketing experts.

Stadium sponsorships usually involve a product that a company wants to market to consumers: Cars, in the case of the Mercedez-Benz Superdome in New Orleans; or bank services, with Citi Field in New York. GEO Group's customers are government agencies offering contracts. Prisoners don't have a choice of where they land behind bars.

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Florida Atlantic Football Stadium Will Be Named For Private Prison Company (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 OP
WTF is "charitable" about getting corporate advertising on a sports-related public edifice? 99th_Monkey Feb 2013 #1
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
1. WTF is "charitable" about getting corporate advertising on a sports-related public edifice?
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 03:11 AM
Feb 2013

That whole "charitable deduction" thing is totally out of hand. If someone's
"concerned" about our deficit, I suggest this as one of the first places to
find additional revenue by doing away with frivolous and patently abused
deductions for "charities".

And this doesn't even deal with the fact that THIS "charity" is LITERALLY IN
THE BUSINESS OF LOCKING UP HUMAN BEINGS FOR PROFIT. <- no fucking
way is this a "charity"

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