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   Good news: The PGA Tour's minor leagues will no longer be named after a car insurance company. Bad news: Meet the "Web.com Tour"

29 Jun 2012 11:44 AM   |   414 clicks   |   ESPN
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majestic     
WTF is web.com?

29 Jun 2012 11:55 AM
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monkey54it     
apparently they have over 30 years of experience helping small businesses online. i cry bs.

29 Jun 2012 12:27 PM
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Ken VeryBigLiar     
monkey54it: apparently they have over 30 years of experience helping small businesses online. i cry bs.

So that's where all the people who have ten years experience on six year old software are. Those guys can get jobs anywhere!

29 Jun 2012 12:47 PM
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IlGreven     
Actually, Nationwide sort of fits such a tour, and doesn't bother me so much. Like Great American Insurance getting the rights to the Reds' stadium: Great American Ballpark just rolls off the tongue.

29 Jun 2012 01:09 PM
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upndn     
I liked the original name of this tour, the "Ben Hogan Tour." Like all things, money changes everything.

29 Jun 2012 01:40 PM
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lunchinlewis    [TotalFark]  
majestic: WTF is web.com?

It's a series of tubes.

29 Jun 2012 01:51 PM
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Neeek     
IlGreven: Actually, Nationwide sort of fits such a tour, and doesn't bother me so much. Like Great American Insurance getting the rights to the Reds' stadium: Great American Ballpark just rolls off the tongue.

That. Nationwide doesn't sound like a sponsor, it sounds like a description.

29 Jun 2012 02:09 PM
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Gosling     
Agreed as well. It's not so much the fact that a sponsor exists. When it comes to naming rights, all fans really ask is a good name. (Except in cases where the name has been around for, like, 50 years running. Then they just want THAT name.) Nobody complains about the Nationwide Tour or Great American Ballpark. Those are good names. Nobody complains about Miller Park. Nobody complains about Busch Stadium.

Nobody gets into too much of a tiff over, say, Target Field or Reliant Stadium or Progressive Field. They're not ideal names, but they could be a lot worse.

When you get into, say, U.S. Cellular Field, or M&T Bank Stadium, or Lucas Oil Stadium, that's when the fans start getting pissed.

And God help you if you're changing the stadium name every year. Eventually the fans will just settle on a neutral name and disregard the sponsorship entirely, such as 'the Oakland Coliseum' or 'Dolphins Stadium' or how NASCAR fans refer to most races by the common name of the track (e.g. 'Michigan') and not the 'Heluva Good Sour Cream Dips 400' or whatever.

29 Jun 2012 02:55 PM
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majestic     
"Tears in his eyes I guess, as he lines up this last shot. He's got about 195 left. And it looks like he's got... about an 8 iron. The crowd has gone dead silent, Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greens keeper now about to become Web.com Champion. It looks like a marac.. It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"

That's sounds stupid as fark.

29 Jun 2012 03:06 PM
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Gonz     
Dude wins one US Open, all of a sudden they name a tour after him. I think it's too much, too soon.

29 Jun 2012 03:39 PM
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majestic     
Gonz: Dude wins one US Open, all of a sudden they name a tour after him. I think it's too much, too soon.

Good one.

29 Jun 2012 03:46 PM
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Willie Fistergash     
See, now this is going to get confusing when I have to explain this to my wife. She'll say something wifey like, "How's Tiger doing?" and I'll say, "This is just the web.com tour", then she'll think it's a video game and byatch about me playing too much xbox or something.
I have a hard enough time with NASCAR, "No Hunny, this is just the Nationwide Series", "Well what's the difference?" she asks. "Well it's pretty much the same drivers, same tracks, and same cars, only they are racing for a fraction of the money, and nobody watches or cares."

29 Jun 2012 03:47 PM
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Ken VeryBigLiar     
Willie Fistergash: I have a hard enough time with NASCAR, "No Hunny, this is just the Nationwide Series", "Well what's the difference?" she asks. "Well it's pretty much the same drivers, same tracks, and same cars, only they are racing for a fraction of the money, and nobody watches or cares."

The difference is Danica usually has a hope of finishing within three laps of the leader on Saturdays.

29 Jun 2012 03:51 PM
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bhcompy     
The Winston Cup was better than the Stanley Cup. I mean, cigarettes are a much better sponsor than tools. They aren't even power tools. What the fark is this shiat?

29 Jun 2012 04:43 PM
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12349876     
Ken VeryBigLiar: monkey54it: apparently they have over 30 years of experience helping small businesses online. i cry bs.

So that's where all the people who have ten years experience on six year old software are. Those guys can get jobs anywhere!


It's one of those we've got 6 people with 5 years experience, 6 x 5 = 30, so we've got 30 years experience!

30 Jun 2012 01:26 AM
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