Entering an Era of WFC Basketball
As the lettering gets stripped from the side of the currently nameless arena, we can take a hot second to reflect on what's happened there for our Sixers since it's becoming the Wachovia Center in July of 2003.
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Good?
The Wachovia era blew. Hopefully this can signal another WFC in Philadelphia when Jrue Holiday drops the F-bomb in front of 1.5 million people in 3 (?) years and scandalized mothers cover the ears of their pre-teen daughters who then go home to watch 8 hours of Jersey Shore while listening to Chris Brown. I don't know who Wells Fargo is or what his values are, but if it can bring me home a ring, or at the very least a necklace, I'll be cool with him.
Who's ready for the season?
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by Michael Levin on Jul 27, 2010 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t forget liquidity and mutual funds!
Liberty Ballers / Ridiculous Upside / Twitter
The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Michael Bourn
by Michael Levin on Jul 27, 2010 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
“Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money, Less Wins, Less Wins, Less Wins…”
by dweebowitz on Jul 27, 2010 12:25 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I just entered a contract into the system at my work for wells fargo 5 minutes before you posted this. Coincidence? I think not!
Would the theme song for the stadium be “We’re Sending Our Love Down the Well” from The Simpsons? If not, I hope they still find poor Timmy O’Toole. Im rambling.
"I'm a beast ready to be unleashed." -- Paul George
by Tanner Steidel on Jul 27, 2010 12:57 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
What's in a name?
Coincidentally, both BK and Stefanski turned out to have a lot in common with the the executives who bankrupted Wachovia by overpaying for unsound acquisitions.
Just because some bank wants publicity by paying for an arena name change, doesn’t mean we have to refer to it as such. Wells Fargo has nothing to do with the Sixers or Flyers, but Comcast/Spectacor offered the naming rights.
Frankly I’m not sure what the Bank hopes to accomplish with this sort of investment, it wouldn’t cause me to consider where I bank!
I suggest that we come up with our own name for the arena and refer to is as such when it happens to come up. Media outlets feel obliged to refer to it by the payed for name, but this is a free country and we can call it what we want!
By the way may banks are continuing to fail and are being taken over by the FDIC. Everytime this happens we the taxpayers get ripped off, since all their deals are guaranteed. We are on the hook for all their derivatives that went bad on them. I don’t know what you call that, but I call it theft! Their balance sheet should go under severe scrutiny before it is taken over. We should not be on the hook for someone else’s bad deal! How may banks are still valuing their real-estate loans which are in default at face value, as opposed to free-market worth?
well then, from here on I propose calling it the Ricko-Tube Center.
Oh, and many banks going under is certainly not a good thing. I believe the Great Depression is proof of that. I would rather pay tax dollars to fund the FDIC than risk losing all of my investments.
"I admire his competitiveness. As much as I admire it, I thought that he was trying too hard."- Eddie Jordan
The Stefanski Mortgaged Future Center… (Stefanki’s original job was selling mortgages.)
To me, it will always be the FU Center.

“To me, it will always be the FU Center”
+1, exactly
by philiafan14364 on Jul 28, 2010 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Just be thankfull that many american sports haven’t sold out to the corporate dollar any where near as much as sports in Europe or Austral-Asia. All our teams run around with large corporate logos on thier uniforms. Then again, the large sporting clothes manufacures do pay a significant amount for thier kit to be used.
Here’s a link to Manchester Uniteds sponsors. Then again Nike payed £302.9 million over five years for thier sponsorship rigths. That’s $472.874 USD over five years.
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