When I was going to grad-school at Kent State in the early 90s, they built new basketball and football stadia in Cleveland, named after the owners of the respective teams, Gund Arena and Jacobs Field. Since then, the stadium names have changed, where Cleveland based Progressive Insurance bought the rights to "the Jake" and new Cavs owner Dan Gilbert renamed Gund Quicken Loans Arena after the firm that made him rich enough to buy the Cavs.
That is one of the downsides of modern sports; the names of stadiums are a moving target. Either the timeframe of the name purchase ends and the next guy takes over, or the firm holding the naming rights get bought out and it gets rechristened with the acquirer's name; the new Boston Garden has been renamed twice for banking mergers.
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