No disrespect to Peoples Bank or XL, but I still refer to it as the Civic Center and everyone knows exactly which venue I’m referring to. Perhaps it’s an age thing (mine, not the venue).
I grew up in Glastonbury and for all my life in Connecticut, it was called the Civic Center. I totally get why the naming is important - advertising for the company who purchases the rights, and revenue for the venue. It's good to know the new name so I will know what venue it is when I hear it!
PeoplesBank is a subsidiary of PeoplesBank Corp MHC headquartered in Holyoke, MA.
It’s a different one.
Peoples "United" Bank.
I only had seats in the upper tier once and that was enough. If I can’t get seats in the lower tier, I watch the game on tv.
You ain't Lying it was suicide walking down those steps while wearing platform shoes at concerts in the 70's..lmao
All true, and don't get me started about the roof
Wait! They changed the name of the Tappen Zee Bridge??? I would make a comment about the "new" name of Sixth Avenue but I don't want my post to be deleted for being political.
Please tell me that you are no longer wearing platform shoes.
Steep, yes, but great sight lines. My UConn hockey season tickets (11 years) are at the top of the face-off circle, inside the blue line (where UConn shoots twice). Row N, looking above the glass at the goal. If I get relocated to accommodate the suits, I’ll be one pissed off alumnus.
There's a nostalgia that's lost with these insane naming rights. Growing up, it was great going to see concerts, wrestling, and sporting events at the New Haven Coliseum and the Hartford Civic Center (specially if Van Halen was playing and we'd get the concert shirts with the tour dates on the back). Now it's just...meh, I'm going to insert city name.
No...not since an ankle sprain went from lasting 1 week to 18 months to heal.Please tell me that you are no longer wearing platform shoes.
Yikes! I know that ankle sprains are unpredictable, but yours was definitely next level.
This. Exactly. Down to being from gbury and all.
LOL, the double letter rows, i.e. AA, BB, etc. are what convinced me that I needed to get season tickets and work my way into better seats. Starting in the mid-90's it was becoming very difficult to get decent single game seats. Also, you need to be a little bit of a mountain goat to get to those seats.
Played a lot of sports and playing football and basketball games in...Red Ball Jets, PF Flyers and chuck Taylors all with no real ankle support will do tht to you and just so you know those PF Flyers DON'T make you run faster and jump higher.....the commercial lied. Surprisingly my ankles are abt the only joints tht don't give me problems whn I jog now.
I'm now so non-East Coast that I didn't know about the Tappan Zee and Triboro being renamed. I didn't remember what the Pan Am building was although I worked in the city for many years. Sixth Avenue we always called 6th, although it has had an alternate name since 1946.
I'm amazed that Peoples Bank purchased the naming rights. From the mid-1990s until 2003 I was a bank examiner working out of Holyoke and examining banks in CT and Western MA. Peoples was one of our banks and I was on the examination team for a couple of exams. The main branch was dead downtown and the area was pretty rundown. It was the only bank I examined where if we stayed late s security guy would see you to your car. In all fairness to Holyoke there was a little Hispanic bakery down the street that was fabulous.
It never hurts to be linked to the best college basketball program in the land.
