Jets, Giants Stadium Naming Rights Talks With Allianz Have Severed
During the week, I have heard that the Jets and the Giants were in talks with a company named Allianz for the naming rights of the New Meadowlands Stadium. Allianz is a German insurance company who allegedly has Nazi ties. There has been an uproar from New Yorkers during the week which ultimately severed the talks between the parties, according to the New York Daily News.
The New York Daily News noted that, “The German company insured Adolf Hitler’s engineers at the Auschwitz death camp, had a chief executive in his cabinet and allegedly refused to pay off life insurance policies to Jews during the Holocaust.” Due to this, they also pointed out that, “Football fans and Jewish groups had responded with fury when they learned Allianz was on the short list of companies offering to pay up to $30 million to have their name on the new field.”
The good news for New Yorkers is that the talks have come to an end. It’s a shame that the Jets and Giants were even in discussions with Allianz, but I’m not certain that they were aware of the issue until the media revealed that Allianz had a checkered past. I’m always surprised when people do the research to find out who these companies dealt with 60 years ago or 300 years ago. I don’t even know how you can verify some of these allegations, and I’m not just talking about this incident. I here the same type of things when politicians accept donations from companies as well. Personally, I dislike these corporate names on stadiums in general.
