Reason Weekly Contest: Name a Subsidized Sports Stadium!

Last week's winners revealed

Welcome back to the Reason Weekly Contest! This week's question is:

In the last 20 years, the U.S. has opened 101 new sports facilities financed in part by billions of tax dollars. Come up with the name of the next football stadium that reflects this economic arrangement.

How to enter: Submissions should be e-mailed to [e-mail]. Please include your name and address. This week, kindly type "STADIUM" in the subject line. Entries are due by 11 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, May 31. Winners will appear Friday, June 5, right here at Reason.com.

In the case of identical or similar entries, the first one received gets credit. First prize is a one-year digital subscription to Reason magazine, plus bragging rights. While we appreciate kibbitzing in the comments below, you must email your answer to enter the contest. Feel free to enter more than once, and good luck!

And now for the results of last week's contest. We asked you to come up with the name of a pot-infused candy or snack.

THE WINNER: Little Doobie Snack Cakes — Chase Calvert

SECOND PLACE: Pot Tarts. "They're better toasted!" — Richard Bradley

THIRD PLACE: Milk Buds — Ska

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Flinstoner Chewable Vitamins — Seth Galemore

Hostess Bing-Bongs — Joshua Trujillo 

Hostess Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho's — Jeffer Mitchell

Boston Really Baked Beans — Brad Ingle

Milky Waaaaaaaay-Out — Coby Wholeben

Mellomars — Bradley Reyes

Comments

[A Self-Identified $park?]

We're In UR Neighborhood Takin UR Tax Dollars Field

[OneOut]

"Submissions should be e-mailed to [e-mail]. Please include your name and address. "

My mailing address ? So they can give me an online version of a magazine ?

I don't think so.

"The Stadium That You Paid For But Can't Afford To Attend Stadium" is the obvious winner but I don't want them mailing me anything.

[AlmightyJB]

comments are great

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

They are absolutely wonderful.

Whoever had that horrible idea, I'm sure they won't be fired. It's the Hilary campaign, after all.

[Charles Easterly]

Thanks JB.

Thus far I like these tow the best: "We can never un-see this" and "That's embarrassing. For you, her, and our country."

Then there is this one, which I'm sure can be appreciated by some of our regulars: "find the nearest busy roadway, put a blind fold on, then try to make it across. Thanks."

[Almanian!]

"I have the same necklace" - #WINNING

[Kaptious Kristen]

Am I the only one way more disturbed by the sign behind him?

[AlmightyJB]

Nope. It's sadly typical. They have no shame.

[Kaptious Kristen]

If that were a skool that my hypothetical kids attended, they would be out of there that very day, never to return. And it doesn't matter if there are other signs for other candidates. Ideology doesn't belong there.

[AlmightyJB]

I remember my oldest coming home from 4th grade with her drawing of oil spilling out into the ocean from a freighter with some eco prop caption. I had to explain to her that oil companies don't dump their product into the ocean on purpose. They just can't have a pro-environment message. They have to make it anti-capitalist too.

[Dweebston]

Christ, that's disgusting. Really just contemptible.

[OneOut]

It looks like he is wearing a pearl necklace.

[A Self-Identified $park?]

Millionaires Stole Your Money Stadium

[Sevo]

The California Money Pit!

[Paul.]

It's not funny because it's true.

[Sevo]

All humor has to have a bit of honesty.

[AlmightyJB]

The AOL Time Warner Taco Bell US Government Long Distance Stadium

[Almanian!]

After the Stadium Wars, all stadia are called "Taco Bell Stadium"

[Dr Fallout]

That gives me an idea.... Three Sea Shells Stadium.

[Almanian!]

I don't understand how that works....

/John Spartan

[Protagoronus]

+goes for high five, stops short, waves in circle

[AlmightyJB]

The Why we can't have nice things stadium

[Jerryskids]

You Didn't Build That Field at It Takes A Village Stadium.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Boondoggle Field.

[Episiarch]

Fleece Field

Sucker Stadium

Appropriation Arena

[Jerry on the sea]

Unprudential Center.

[Almanian!]

"I Took A Shit In This Stadium Once" Stadium

/Sandi

[Invisible Finger]

Kid's high school is installing a cafe in the library. Asks students to submit names for the cafe.

Best students entry so far: A Waste Of Taxpayer Money

[AlmightyJB]

That's great:)

[Dr Fallout]

FYTW Field

[Joe Candle]

Winner.

[Charles Easterly]

The Crony Capitalism Center

Pelf Park

Giant Grift Gridiron

Swindle Stadium

[Old Man With Candy]

Pelf Park

Now, with extra Desuetude!

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Debits Field.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

nice

[Almanian!]

make it +2

[Comrade F. Stupidity, Jr.]

Too bad this isn't arenas. FYTW Center has such a good ring to it.

[AlmightyJB]

The If you don't smoke Tarrlytons...Fuck You! Stadium.

[AlmightyJB]

Suckers Stadium

[Pepperjack]

The Robert C. Byrd Memorial Stadium. I'm surprised this doesn't already exist.

[AlmightyJB]

No way. It has to exist.

[Kaptious Kristen]

I'm guessing some H.S. or small college in WV has one.

[Andrew S.]

A bit of googling tells me that in Clarksburg, WV there's a Robert C. Byrd High School, with adjacent football and track fields. About as close as I could find.

[Andrew S.]

This is what I get for not refereshing before posting. Dammit, Kristen!

[Kaptious Kristen]

Well, he does have a whole high school named after him.

[Kaptious Kristen]

Every time I drove out to Otter Creek Wilderness (WV), I would pass by this Robert C. Byrd industrial park/complex that appeared completely empty.

[Andrew S.]

Except for a singular charred cross?

[BakedPenguin]

Built with stimulus money, no doubt.

[Kaptious Kristen]

So is this like Bob Levy's neologism contest? There was that one time I knew I had that contest in the bag*, with "imperturbulence" (the word for when a pilot sounds calm on the PA during severe weather).

*The prize, BTW, was lunch with Levy at any restaurant in the DC area, courtesy of the WaPo. Hint. Hint.

[Warty]

FUCK ART MODELL Stadium.

[Brett L]

I'm going to start calling NRG "Eat a Dick, Bud Adams Stadium" now.

[Old Man With Candy]

St. Art forgives you for your sins.

[AlmightyJB]

The Enjoy your blackout games sucka's stadium.

[Warty]

I Can't Believe You Idiots Fell For This Field

[Rhywun]

LOL

[Andrew S.]

About a decade ago, the ever-changing name of the arena for the Sixers and Flyers became the First Union Center, more commonly known as the FU Center. That sounds about right.

[Brett L]

Stimulus is Great for Connected Developers Filed.

[Almanian!]

Ben Dover Field

[Almanian!]

"Look At That Little Monkey RUN!" Field

/RIP Howard Cosell

[Almanian!]

"Turn Out The Lights - The Party's Over Field"

[Almanian!]

no night games....

[Greg F]

Well the Buffalo Bills stadium used to be Rich Stadium.

[Invisible Finger]

Subsidize The Rich Stadium

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Subsidized Hallmark American Football Arena, known locally as 'The SHAFT'.

[Invisible Finger]

Looks like SHAFA.

[lap83]

Plunderdome

[Warty]

Excellent.

[jesse.in.mb]

I would like to second Warty's "Excellent."

[lap83]

thanks! x2

[HolgerDanske]

Make that x3

[Charles Easterly]

x4

Very nicely done, 83.

[Kaptious Kristen]

Thirded - email that shizz!!

[lap83]

thanks, just did

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

winner

[Spartacus]

Ben Dover Stadium

[Spartacus]

Aw Alamanian beat me to it. I guess I should have read the previous comments.

[Ron]

the United State Postal Service Stadium, where its legal to go postal on the field.

[C. S. P. Schofield]

Ok, I read that headline as "Name a stadium that is subsudised", and wanted to know why not a much hader contest; name a stadium that is NOT subsudused.

[Pope Jimbo]

People's Stadium

Wait, that is taken by Gov Dayton and the Vikes.

[Roger the Shrubber]

Stimulus Stadium

[Swamp Think]

Crony Field - Home of the Racketeers!

[Invisible Finger]

Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation Stadium

[Invisible Finger]

Dennis Moore Complex

[PusaAtDaga]

Your lupins or your life!

[guitargeek]

This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought!

[Brian D]

Extortion Field

[mumohemevu]

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[Chumby]

Coercion Field

[Chumby]

The Taxpayer Paidium

[vixanoyez]

Google pay 97$ per hour my last pay check was $8500 working 1o hours a week online. My younger brother friend has been averaging 12k for months now and he works about 22 hours a week. I cant believe how easy it was once I tried it out.
This is wha- I do...... ?????? http://www.www.netjob80.com

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