www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/city-moves-forward-with-mayors-mls-stadium-proposal-rejecting-eleven-park
the name "Chicago Fire" blatantly stolen from MLS.
I'm dying. I just can't even fathom 🤣
🤷🏽♂️I mean I remember during this time on Big Soccer we all thought how funny it was that NBC was creating this show after they got MLS rights.
They "suddenly" came up with the idea let's create a show called Chicago Fire. I distinctly remember someone joked yeah total coincidence at least it's not the Chicago ZooKeepers🤣😂
Picturing NBC getting these upcoming NBA rights and they go we're gonna create a new Crime fighting show starring David Caruso we're gonna call it Miami Heat
NBA: No😆
The Chicago Fire is a real thing that happened. The MLS team wasn’t the first people to ever put the words Chicago and Fire together.
Obviously(started by I cow I believe lol)but in this instance it certainly was a outright steal on the Chicago Fire team name with at the time the Fire had the old school Fire Department style badge.
NBC ripped the idea for a show about a Fire fighter drama based in Chicago straight from the Chicago Fire team name 🤣 its so OBVIOUSLY blatant. They were only able to get away with it at the time likely because they slid it in the contract of the deal at the time ir just did it because it wasn't likely MLS was going to gripe on it being they were all too happy to sign that deal which at the time was seen as much needed money lol going from the $5-7m Fox Soccer Channel paid to $10m and getting on Broadcast NBC.
How far MLS has come, no other league would have allowed that outright rip of a license branded team name. There's a reason at the end of every game every Major League does that license and consent branding thing of the league.
The cow thing is just a myth by the way.
But I don't think it's stolen. The idea of a firefighter show based in Chicago, the city that got wiped out by a fire and has a lot of history in firefighting, makes sense. Like you don't need a soccer team called the Chicago Fire to exist in order to come up with that. It's not that crazy of an idea.