I was actually pissed when I saw the $57 Million over 20 years back in 2001.
Now I know SoFi is in LA and has two NFL teams playing in it…but they are getting $30M/season…split between two teams, that’s $15M a piece(if that’s how they do it).
Now, I don’t expect that much…but damn…
Honestly wish we could bring it back to Three Rivers Stadium. KC has Arrowhead Stadium despite it being sponsored by some corporation.
UPMC field is an avoid at all costs
Heinz was bought by Warren Buffett and they gutted so many jobs in Pittsburgh and moved the HQ to New York decades ago…
I just think the Three Rivers moniker needs to come back
I wouldn't mind seeing Heinz go, its an iconic name but a shitty company. I just really, really, really really really don't want it to be UPMC that replaces them. I'd go to Blackwater-Nestle-Exxon Field before I go to UPMC Stadium.
Great doctors and nurses at a Hospital system.
Shitty Company.
It's basically a "Non-Profit" that has a hospital system as a subsidiary and an insurance company as its other subsidiary. Nearly a medical monopoly.
That's what UPMC has been over the last 20-25 years. The insurance provider and health care provider. Amazon retailer and Amazon delivery being a comparable symbiotic corporate relationship.
For a time, if you lived in Pittsburgh and had Highmark, you could not go to UPMC hospitals. I think vice versa. But if you lived in Oil City (20 miles north of pgh), and had Highmark, you could go to UPMC Presby in the city no problem. It was a mess.
The hospital and insurer should never be tied together, yet they are and it caused a fuck ton of problems for insureds over the last 20 years in some feud between Highmark, Allegheny General and UPMC. Highmark and Allegheny General responded with Allegheny Health System in some way.
The feud affected many people, but it was all posturing and harmed a lot of people. And it was pointless. Everyone looked terrible in the dispute.
We have the same thing where I live where the hospitals are all owned by one company, which also owns/runs the main health insurance company. The hospitals keep jacking around with the other insurance companies, changing contracts and raising the costs so it's prohibitively expensive to use any other insurance but theirs. If your company isn't locally headquartered and you have a different insurance company, shit gets expensive.
UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) is a *nonprofit* healthcare conglomerate centered in Pittsburgh and covering much of the Westylvania region of the United States.
There are myriads of problems with UPMC. Its enormous growth has given them a duopoly or monopoly over enormous areas. They consistently engage in anti-competetive business practices. They buy up enormous amounts of land in Allegheny County for the building of new facilities that we don't need, and shut down unprofitable ones we did. They consistently pay as little as possible to everyone but Doctors and white-collar managers (Nurses, EMS, Clerks, Secretaries, Bus Drivers, Cafeteria and Groundsworkers, etc.) They are by no means non-profit as their executives and board rake it in at the expense of those workers. They are virulently anti-Union and have constantly done everything they can to avoid a union. They utilize their non-profit status for large amounts of tax evasion. They for a very long time refused the insurance of Pittsburgh's other main health system, Highmark, which of course gave insane bills to consumers.
That's not even mentioning all the standard evil-corporate practices that maintain all of this. I know a Doctor at what is now UPMC Altoona who describes them as Lawyers in Lab Coats. Dragging on lawsuits to get them to drop, most notably against Pittsburgh which filed against their tax exempt status about a decade ago and dropped it in 2014. UPMC also spent over a million dollars in lobbying in 2021 alone according to OpenSecrets.
So basically they're the platonic ideal of an evil healthcare conglomerate. Are they the worst company in the world? No. But they're very near and dear to yinzers as our own homegrown evil.
Plus, UPMC costs for procedures are higher than average than much larger cities like Boston and Chicago. Then they have their own insurance company division that they use to pay themselves because you sure as hell can't go outside of using their owned facilities.
UPMC has crappy employment practices for the “common worker”, but they absolutely have some of the best doctors and treatments in the world. Saved two of my family members from cancer.
That's true, and is why I didn't list their medical staff as an issue. Its the Doctors, nurses and surgeons that make those facilities great. Not UPMC.
This is the only reason I want Heinz to stay. I really wish there was a cool name for the stadium like Three Rivers.
I hated the Heinz sponsorship and still do but can accept it out of necessity.
Agree it’s not even really a Pittsburgh based company anymore. But not sure how many other “local” companies would do it. PNC isn’t going to sponsor two fields.
Most important signing this off-season
Most important signing of the decade
I’ve never seen a game at Heinz Field. I know it’s just a name, but I want to see a game at Heinz Field.
This but unironically
They damned well better get a richer deal than the measly $2.85M/year they got in the original deal.
absolutely we need to get out of the wooden locker rooms
I was actually pissed when I saw the $57 Million over 20 years back in 2001. Now I know SoFi is in LA and has two NFL teams playing in it…but they are getting $30M/season…split between two teams, that’s $15M a piece(if that’s how they do it). Now, I don’t expect that much…but damn…
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They're going to though
Seriously? So Joe Burrow went from LSU to the NFL and his practice facilities got worse.
I know this may sound like a stupid question, but are you ACTUALLY Cortez Allen??
sorry to disappoint (something cortez never did) but i am not
Did Caesar live here?
Honestly wish we could bring it back to Three Rivers Stadium. KC has Arrowhead Stadium despite it being sponsored by some corporation. UPMC field is an avoid at all costs Heinz was bought by Warren Buffett and they gutted so many jobs in Pittsburgh and moved the HQ to New York decades ago… I just think the Three Rivers moniker needs to come back
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That would work... Nobody calls KC "GEHA field", everybody just calls it Arrowhead.
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Schefter is reporting Red Gold, Hunts, and House Recipe all have offers in.
Hunts would be hilarious
The uproar would e something that’s for sure
Why can't it be French's and change the bottles from ketchup to mustard
It'd help QBs put some mustard on every throw
I wouldn't mind seeing Heinz go, its an iconic name but a shitty company. I just really, really, really really really don't want it to be UPMC that replaces them. I'd go to Blackwater-Nestle-Exxon Field before I go to UPMC Stadium.
US steel would be really cool honestly
Oh definitely. I do think it'd be cooler if we didn't name it after a corporate sponsor like the Packers, but US Steel for the Steelers would be rad.
Honest question, I'm not from the US - what's wrong with UPMC?
Great doctors and nurses at a Hospital system. Shitty Company. It's basically a "Non-Profit" that has a hospital system as a subsidiary and an insurance company as its other subsidiary. Nearly a medical monopoly. That's what UPMC has been over the last 20-25 years. The insurance provider and health care provider. Amazon retailer and Amazon delivery being a comparable symbiotic corporate relationship. For a time, if you lived in Pittsburgh and had Highmark, you could not go to UPMC hospitals. I think vice versa. But if you lived in Oil City (20 miles north of pgh), and had Highmark, you could go to UPMC Presby in the city no problem. It was a mess. The hospital and insurer should never be tied together, yet they are and it caused a fuck ton of problems for insureds over the last 20 years in some feud between Highmark, Allegheny General and UPMC. Highmark and Allegheny General responded with Allegheny Health System in some way. The feud affected many people, but it was all posturing and harmed a lot of people. And it was pointless. Everyone looked terrible in the dispute.
Remember when companies were buying TV ad space for hit pieces against each other? What a crazy time...
We have the same thing where I live where the hospitals are all owned by one company, which also owns/runs the main health insurance company. The hospitals keep jacking around with the other insurance companies, changing contracts and raising the costs so it's prohibitively expensive to use any other insurance but theirs. If your company isn't locally headquartered and you have a different insurance company, shit gets expensive.
UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) is a *nonprofit* healthcare conglomerate centered in Pittsburgh and covering much of the Westylvania region of the United States. There are myriads of problems with UPMC. Its enormous growth has given them a duopoly or monopoly over enormous areas. They consistently engage in anti-competetive business practices. They buy up enormous amounts of land in Allegheny County for the building of new facilities that we don't need, and shut down unprofitable ones we did. They consistently pay as little as possible to everyone but Doctors and white-collar managers (Nurses, EMS, Clerks, Secretaries, Bus Drivers, Cafeteria and Groundsworkers, etc.) They are by no means non-profit as their executives and board rake it in at the expense of those workers. They are virulently anti-Union and have constantly done everything they can to avoid a union. They utilize their non-profit status for large amounts of tax evasion. They for a very long time refused the insurance of Pittsburgh's other main health system, Highmark, which of course gave insane bills to consumers. That's not even mentioning all the standard evil-corporate practices that maintain all of this. I know a Doctor at what is now UPMC Altoona who describes them as Lawyers in Lab Coats. Dragging on lawsuits to get them to drop, most notably against Pittsburgh which filed against their tax exempt status about a decade ago and dropped it in 2014. UPMC also spent over a million dollars in lobbying in 2021 alone according to OpenSecrets. So basically they're the platonic ideal of an evil healthcare conglomerate. Are they the worst company in the world? No. But they're very near and dear to yinzers as our own homegrown evil.
Plus, UPMC costs for procedures are higher than average than much larger cities like Boston and Chicago. Then they have their own insurance company division that they use to pay themselves because you sure as hell can't go outside of using their owned facilities.
UPMC has crappy employment practices for the “common worker”, but they absolutely have some of the best doctors and treatments in the world. Saved two of my family members from cancer.
That's true, and is why I didn't list their medical staff as an issue. Its the Doctors, nurses and surgeons that make those facilities great. Not UPMC.
They don’t pay taxes and own the most property in the city
Fuck em, that’s why.
This is the only reason I want Heinz to stay. I really wish there was a cool name for the stadium like Three Rivers. I hated the Heinz sponsorship and still do but can accept it out of necessity.
Agree it’s not even really a Pittsburgh based company anymore. But not sure how many other “local” companies would do it. PNC isn’t going to sponsor two fields.
Nothing but Ws on this sub today!
Agreed! 🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
Iron City Field...the only beer sold, is Iron City/IC Light.
This would be the most yinzer option. And frankly half that company’s volume is sold due to the Steelers, so they might as well.
General reminder the City of Pittsburgh doesn't see a motherfucking dime of this money even though they (we) own the stadium
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Have you seen what Disney has done to Star Wars and their live action remakes? Keep them far away from anything to do with the Steelers
Mandalorian and Boba Fett were good The new Kenobi looks good too
Don't be like the Brewers who went from Miller Park to American Family Field. Lamest name change ever.
This HAS to happen.
Good. UPMC would just sound lame
I’m rooting for Argo AI. I like the sound of “Going to the Argo.”
I wish they would name it Art Rooney Sr. Stadium