New Arena Name

[dgies9156]

I heard they'll go by waist size.

Or head size. So let's nominate Scoopers for a Banner.

What's the criteria?

Who should be retired?

[4everwarriors]

Sultan First Team All-Pontification

Ma and Pa First Team All-Connected/All-Wojo and Lovell Facebook Buddies

F*ckin' First Team (Madison Area) All-Bottled Water Delivery Boy

Herm First Team All-Neck Girth

Nukem First Team All-Grumpy Old Quon Man

Fahrenheit 451 First Team All-Smoke Eater

Lens First Team All Team Manager (2nd Gen.)

LXXXII First Team All-Xmas Tree

Rocket First Team All-G.V. Black

Lenny Man First Team All-American

Chicos First Team All-American (in absentia)

Keefe First Team All-American

BeeJay First Team All-American

Goose First Team All-American

NY Warrior First Team All-American

[warriorchick]

Or head size. So let's nominate Scoopers for a Banner.

What's the criteria?

Who should be retired?

Don't you actually have to be, you know, retired?

That means only folks who have been kicked off the board, as well as being legendary, can get a banner

Chicos it is.

[mu03eng]

They were running out of time and needed to save face.

My guess is that the Bucks were like the car salesman who lets you walk out of the dealership rather than agree to your price, and then calls you the next day begging you to come back and buy the car at your original offer.

Did some digging with some folks and here is what I've been told:
Fiserv stepped up right away(Feb ish) to offer the naming rights but around a quarter of what the Bucks wanted. The Bucks took that to the "big" names in town (Harley, ROK, Foxconn, etc) and tried to leverage them into a better offer. HD declined right away cause, ya know, they're going broke. ROK listened but said no because of other investments that were pending, leaving Foxconn who was interested. Bucks insinuated both Fiserv and another(Rok) were in play, so Foxconn made an offer but at a third of of the original ask. They put an agreement in principle in place, but then the Bucks went back to Fiserv to lever their price up to lever Foxconn up further. Meantime Foxconn found out ROK was out AND that the Bucks were talking to Fiserv again. When the called the Bucks out on it the response was something to the effect of "hey we're hear to make money not friends" and that broke it for Foxconn who walked away. Bucks then had to scramble to keep Fiserv at the $100M they had levered them up to.

Can't say this is 100% true but what I was told by at least two different people who would be in a position to know things

[warriorchick]

Did some digging with some folks and here is what I've been told:
Fiserv stepped up right away(Feb ish) to offer the naming rights but around a quarter of what the Bucks wanted. The Bucks took that to the "big" names in town (Harley, ROK, Foxconn, etc) and tried to leverage them into a better offer. HD declined right away cause, ya know, they're going broke. ROK listened but said no because of other investments that were pending, leaving Foxconn who was interested. Bucks insinuated both Fiserv and another(Rok) were in play, so Foxconn made an offer but at a third of of the original ask. They put an agreement in principle in place, but then the Bucks went back to Fiserv to lever their price up to lever Foxconn up further. Meantime Foxconn found out ROK was out AND that the Bucks were talking to Fiserv again. When the called the Bucks out on it the response was something to the effect of "hey we're hear to make money not friends" and that broke it for Foxconn who walked away. Bucks then had to scramble to keep Fiserv at the $100M they had levered them up to.

Can't say this is 100% true but what I was told by at least two different people who would be in a position to know things

Those guys still haven't figured out that this ain't NYC.

[The Lens]

Lens First Team All Team Manager (2nd Gen.)

An honor.  Thank you.  Speechless.

[dgies9156]

Those guys still haven't figured out that this ain't NYC.

Sooner or later they will... the hard way

[Coleman]

They were running out of time and needed to save face.

My guess is that the Bucks were like the car salesman who lets you walk out of the dealership rather than agree to your price, and then calls you the next day begging you to come back and buy the car at your original offer.

I'm in the process of a buying a car as we speak and this crap drives me absolutely nuts.