{"id":46686,"date":"2019-09-13T23:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T03:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46686"},"modified":"2020-08-16T21:46:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T01:46:39","slug":"when-the-venue-becomes-more-notorious-than-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46686","title":{"rendered":"When the venue becomes more notorious than the team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple News seems to know to look more for stories that have the capability to entertain instead of just depress me with the shitty way the world is.\u00a0 That being said, I came across this story<\/a> about how the American Airlines Arena in Miami were foregoing their partnership with the venue, and that the naming rights for the building were up for grabs.\u00a0 And among the numerous companies that would love to slap their name on a building and be THE home of the Miami Heat, one rose to the top of the heap, in terms of intrigue, interest and sheer entertainment potential.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bang Bros<\/strong>, the pornographic website, has apparently put together a very serious proposal and ponied up a ten million dollar bid in order to acquire the rights to the venue, hoping to name the place the Bang Bros Center.\u00a0 To which it doesn\u2019t take a 17-year old to realize that that would make it the BBC<\/strong>, which most certainly doesn\u2019t represent the acronym for the British Broadcasting Corporation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, despite the fact that there is probably a 100% chance this will never happen, no matter how seriously and legitimately Bang Bros presents their proposal, I have to say that this one of the more funny and classic attempts for a pornographic company trying to crawl out of the dark and dirty recesses of the internet and into something physical and tangible, and in this case, really, really huge.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funny thing to me is that there aren\u2019t a ton of cities that could probably be more likely to get away with smut like this, but I\u2019d have to put Miami up there as one that could.\u00a0 It\u2019s a city full of vapid and superficial people, a ton of men and women who look like they\u2019d be in Bang Bros\u2019s library somewhere, and the general culture of Miami is pretty loose and probably where a ton of porn is shot anyway.\u00a0 And the majority of people who go to Heat games are probably a more concentrated sample of the culture, considering the ludicrous price of going to NBA games, and that they\u2019re places for people to show off more than actually watch basketball.<\/span><\/p>\n

But of course this isn\u2019t going to happen.\u00a0 No city in their right mind would sell out their treasured sports venue to a pornographic website, no matter how much money they\u2019d offer up.\u00a0 Primarily due to antiquated beliefs like \u201cfor the kids\u201d and general integrity, and not just the fact that aside from Bang Bros, there are probably other, more boring and square companies with deep pockets are probably more than willing to +$1 anything Bang Bros comes to the table with.<\/span><\/p>\n

But let\u2019s be real here; there is a rare opportunity in this where a venue could become way more newsworthy than the team(s) that play in it.\u00a0 Like, it wouldn\u2019t matter if the Miami Heat had the 1992 Dream Team starting or the shitty roster called Team USA<\/a> that just lost two straight international games, the product on the court wouldn\u2019t come close to garnering the attention that the name outside the building would.\u00a0 And in that regard, that\u2019s about the greatest blessing a franchise could possibly want, where it wouldn\u2019t matter if the Heat had to hit the ceiling of the salary cap or not, people would still show up to the BBC, just because all dudes and their bimbo dates just want the kick of going to a place called the BBC.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shit, even I\u2019d considering actually going back down to Miami and foregoing a baseball game for a night, just so I could go to the BBC and take a hundred sniggering Boooker T mugshot face<\/a> selfies, just so I could boast on social media and\/or my brog about how I visited the BBC.\u00a0 And surely, I can\u2019t be the only dude on the planet that would feel the same way.<\/span><\/p>\n

As far as I\u2019m concerned, the fact that this is all but guaranteed to fall through, seems like one of the more tragic decisions of foregoing great profitability in the name trying to operate business with a modicum of integrity.\u00a0 Last time I checked, I didn\u2019t realize those things were so mutually exclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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