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New signage: Miller Park becomes American Family Field

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Change is coming to the home of the Milwaukee Brewers. On Wednesday, Jan. 27, signs of Miller Park were replaced with American Family Field signs. "This is a very exciting day for
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It will always be County Stadium or Miller Park to me.
 
Why the name change? Miller not reup on a contract or something? I know they changed their NASCAR driver sponsorship from Miller Lite to Keystone Lite(a few years after AB switched theirs from Budweiser to Busch, and I think it worked, because I know so many people that drink Busch now when I only knew a few before that happened)
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Why the name change? Miller not reup on a contract or something? I know they changed their NASCAR driver sponsorship from Miller Lite to Keystone Lite(a few years after AB switched theirs from Budweiser to Busch, and I think it worked, because I know so many people that drink Busch now when I only knew a few before that happened)
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Yeah, the naming rights owned by Miller Brewing expired at the end of the year and they chose not to renew.
 
Most stadiums today have naming rights. I'm glad Lambeau Field is not one of them.
 
packerzrule said:
cbs58.com

New signage: Miller Park becomes American Family Field

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Change is coming to the home of the Milwaukee Brewers. On Wednesday, Jan. 27, signs of Miller Park were replaced with American Family Field signs. "This is a very exciting day for
cbs58.com cbs58.com

It will always be County Stadium or Miller Park to me.
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Was country stadium on the same spot as Miller Park (I’m not interested in calling it something else)?
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Was country stadium on the same spot as Miller Park (I’m not interested in calling it something else)?
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Kind of next door. Miller was built in a parking lot of County Stadium

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Kburjr said:
Kind of next door. Miller was built in a parking lot of County Stadium
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Interesting. I had only been through Milwaukee after Miller Park, so I never knew where County Stadium was.

My wife was born and raised in WI. She asked me the other day not only if the Packers still did games in Milwaukee, but if the NFC Championship was in Green Bay or Milwaukee.

Womens..... :rolleyes2:
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Interesting. I had only been through Milwaukee after Miller Park, so I never knew where County Stadium was.

My wife was born and raised in WI. She asked me the other day not only if the Packers still did games in Milwaukee, but if the NFC Championship was in Green Bay or Milwaukee.

Womens..... :rolleyes2:
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Well, the Packers did play in Milwaukee a couple times a year for awhile. Up until 1994. Last playoff game there was in 1967

Green Bay Packers home games in Milwaukee - Wikipedia

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Kburjr said:
Well, the Packers did play in Milwaukee a couple times a year for awhile. Up until 1994. Last playoff game there was in 1967

Green Bay Packers home games in Milwaukee - Wikipedia

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We got to talking about what might have changed the Milwaukee Packers games. She left WI around the early 90s.

My thought was an aging County Stadium was blah and Miller was built to replace it as baseball only. Not really a good place in Milwaukee to go play the games.

It’s probably also been easier to say “drive north for the game Milwaukee Packer fans” than it was in the 70s and 80s.
 
wazzu31 said:
Fuck the Brewers for stealing our team.
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Milwaukee "steals" your baseball team, Oklahoma City "steals" your basketball team...seems to me that nobody wants to play for your city.

:hmm: ya know, now that I think about it, the San Antonio Seahawks DOES have a pretty nice ring to it, eh?
 
ojb81 said:
Milwaukee "steals" your baseball team, Oklahoma City "steals" your basketball team...seems to me that nobody wants to play for your city.

:hmm: ya know, now that I think about it, the San Antonio Seahawks DOES have a pretty nice ring to it, eh?
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Is it really "stealing" when you can't keep your team for more than a year?

And I think it'll be the Kansas City Kraken before long...
 
ojb81 said:
Milwaukee "steals" your baseball team, Oklahoma City "steals" your basketball team...seems to me that nobody wants to play for your city.

:hmm: ya know, now that I think about it, the San Antonio Seahawks DOES have a pretty nice ring to it, eh?
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You can’t equate the two. Milwaukee did steal the team. The court documents stated as fact. Bennett didn’t steal it as the Justice didn’t get to make her ruling. OKC was shady as fuck and karma got them, but the Brewers were stolen worse than any franchise in any sport. At least the Baltimore Colts knew at least Irsay was bluffing another city.
 
wazzu31 said:
You can’t equate the two. Milwaukee did steal the team. The court documents stated as fact. Bennett didn’t steal it as the Justice didn’t get to make her ruling. OKC was shady as fuck and karma got them, but the Brewers were stolen worse than any franchise in any sport. At least the Baltimore Colts knew at least Irsay was bluffing another city.
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Went to a game at the AmFam Clam last week and that setup is awesome. Parking and stadium accessibility from the lots is well done, the fact that fans tailgate EVERYWHERE in the parking lots was cool, great location. Inside the stadium had a really cool "modern" bright-but-dark look to it, the sun shining in from home onto the pitchers mound was cool too. Kind of a bummer that they closed the roof for a slight chance of rain, but I have heard the views are shit anyway with it open, so whatever?


...went to Wrigley the next day. What a shithole.
 
Flavortown Tebow said:
Went to a game at the AmFam Clam last week and that setup is awesome. Parking and stadium accessibility from the lots is well done, the fact that fans tailgate EVERYWHERE in the parking lots was cool, great location. Inside the stadium had a really cool "modern" bright-but-dark look to it, the sun shining in from home onto the pitchers mound was cool too. Kind of a bummer that they closed the roof for a slight chance of rain, but I have heard the views are shit anyway with it open, so whatever?


...went to Wrigley the next day. What a shithole.
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Cubs fans know Wrigley is a shithole. They flock to Miller/AmFam for a good baseball experience.

The views are great throughout the stadium regardless if the roof is opened or closed. The only issue is... if you're in the right field bleachers as the sun is setting you get the sun in your eyes.
 
RP-29 said:
Cubs fans know Wrigley is a shithole. They flock to Miller/AmFam for a good baseball experience.

The views are great throughout the stadium regardless if the roof is opened or closed. The only issue is... if you're in the right field bleachers as the sun is setting you get the sun in your eyes.
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Wrigley seriously has no redeeming qualities.

We drove around for a fucking hour looking for parking. Each street has a fucking poem of different rules for if you can park on it or not. There's like 3 lots that hold 20 cars within a mile of the stadium. People renting out their personal garages or alleyways and shit.

Then half the seats in the stadium, you literally can't even see a ball that goes 4 feet into the air. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?

Then you get the sweet views of old shitty apartment buildings?

The fuck outta here.
 
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