Hail to Washington Walmart

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by Mc2guy

Hi ya'll, long-time lurker, first-time poster.

Not that this is a real serious thread, but I have major doubts that the revenue from team naming rights would equilibrate to, or exceed, the revenue from trademarked team merchandise sales.

The whole point of the recent lawsuit against the "Redskins" trademark, was to usurp the copyright protection on the name. Doing so would effectively force the Danny to drop the name since he would no longer be raking in the millions in merchandising revenue associated with the Redskins name. As I seem to recall, the Skins are in the top 3 of team merchandise sales along with Pittsburg and Dallas.

Danny won't sell the naming rights to the team under any circumstances, it just doesn't make fiscal sense. Even if eventually the name is un-copyrighted, he'll pick something different and copyright that.

Mc2guy

if they were the walmarts, people would still buy the new jersey's... though there'd obviously be a backlash and losts sales of some sort.