September 12, 2008
Jets/Giants naming-rights bidder was Auschwitz insurer
First the wannabe Brooklyn Nets sign up a naming-rights sponsor with a history of slave trading, now the New York Giants and Jets are under fire for mulling a deal with an insurance company that worked for the Nazis. The German firm Allianz, which is reportedly the front-runner for naming rights to the teams' new joint stadium in New Jersey, insured engineers handling poison gas for the death camps at Auschwitz, and has been accused of dragging its feet on restitution to Holocaust victims and their families.
Aren't there any companies out there that want to pay big bucks to slap their names on stadiums for reasons other than trying to paper over their own misdeeds? Anyone?
—Neil deMause
Speaking of wannabes the so called new york jets and new york giants Imean new jersey giants and new jersey jets. At least the nets will play in the borough they represent
Posted by dan on September 14, 2008 06:08 PM
This is sort of a silly discussion. Those events happened more than 2 generations ago; the people who were in charge of the company then are long dead, as are their ideas (for the most part). Haranguing the company now for what it (or its leaders) did 60+ years ago is ridiculous- what does anyone there now have to do with what happened in World War 2?
Posted by TimK on September 25, 2008 03:26 PM