Heinz Field is No More

Let’s get a Western Pennsylvania update:

Breaking: The ketchup bottles are coming down. Heinz Field will be renamed Acrisure Stadium. After the Michigan-based insurance brokerage firm. An official announcement could come as soon as Tuesday.

— Andrew Fillipponi (@ThePoniExpress) July 11, 2022

Acrisure Stadium is really lame. I was hoping for Yinzer Field or Primanti Place. Sheetz Stadium. Asshole Arena. This was a missed opportunity for Hunt’s to get in there and keep the ketchup branding alive.

Rhetorical question –

Will Pitt Panther fans show up to Acrisure Stadium in the post-Kenny Pickett and Jordan Addison era? We’ll set the over/under on 3,750 per game and I’m HAMMERING the under. It’s a stone cold, lead pipe lock!

For real though, these stadium names stink. Every American stadium is named after some financial institution. Wells Fargo. Lincoln Financial. Bank of America. M&T Bank. This is why Lambeau Field is the shit, because it’s just “Lambeau.” The Frozen Tundra. No corporate crapola naming. Same thing overseas. Wembley. Old Trafford. Stamford Bridge. Elland Road. The San Siro. Gimme venues with real names, not because some company paid the most money for the rights.

Rant over. Good morning Yinzers.

good luck getting pittsburgh to call that place anything but heinz field they called the concert venue star lake for twenty years until it finally circled back and is named that again

— The Smoking Musket (@smokingmusket) July 11, 2022