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March 18, 2008

Georgia Tech to Rename Arena

Georgia Tech announced plans tonight to rename the McThriller Dome to the Dennis Felton Memorial Coliseum at Historic Gaines-Bliss Court.

The move comes in the glorious aftermath of the University of Georgia's SEC Tournament Championship won on Sunday at Tech's former home gym.

"It's time that we recognize who really owns our facilities," said Dan Radacovich, athletic director for Georgia Tech. "We're hopeful that we can reach a favorable lease agreement with Georgia on DFMC at HGBC."

The Georgia Bulldogs won three of their four games at Tech's facility over the weekend. As a point of comparison, Georgia Tech didn't enjoy a three game winning streak at home this entire season.

(image: Victory T-Shirts for the Cinderella Dawgs)

Officials at McDonald's, Inc. were heart broken with the news.

"We felt that McDonald's and Georgia Tech were nearing completion of a new marketing, cross promotion arrangement whereby our logo would return to GT's court and Buzz would be replaced by our famous Ronald McDonald clown," said Sandy Kroc, the hamburger heiress and chief marketing officer of McDonald's.

"It's an unfortunate turn of events for us as everyone knows UGA would never whore out their iconic imagery to make a quick buck like Tech would," said Kroc.

See Also:
-- Bulldogs Make the Cover of Papers Across the US - SicemDawgs
-- Felton Talks SEC and NCAAs - DawgPost (video)
-- Party like it's 1983 - DawgPost
-- The Road Less Traveled - AJC
-- Felton Eternally Grateful - ABH
-- Team send off planned for Tuesday - Georgiadogs.com
-- SEC Championship T-Shirts - Football Fanatics (Black)
-- The F-Bomb - DawgSports.com

(Note: the Felton Coliseum line came from S.A.W.B. in our comments section)

PWD

4 comments:

Unknown said...

"Officials at McDonald's, Inc. were heart broken with the news."

Reminds me of a joke:

A McDonalds representative was meeting with the Pope. McDonalds was offering a very large sum of money if during the Lord's Prayer, the church say "Give us now our daily Big Mac" instead of "Give us now our daily bread." After the meeting, the Pope met with the College of Cardinals.

"I have good news and bad news," the Pope informed them. "The good news is we're about to make a lot of money with McDonalds. The bad news is that someone is going to have to tell the St Louis Bread company we're not renewing their contract."

Anonymous said...

Why'd they pull the Cinderella Dawgs black t-shirt? I wanted one and I wanted to buy it here to support the site.

Unknown said...

Usually that means it sold out.

Unknown said...

Note: I replaced the pic with the in stock white shirt.

 
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