LOS ANGELES — United Airlines offered Friday withdraw from a $69 million deal to change Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum into United Airlines Memorial Coliseum following criticism that adding a corporate name is disrespectful to the facility’s history of honouring troops who fought and died in World War I. Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn criticized the new name this week in a newspaper opinion piece. “Unlike other modern sports venues, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is not just a stadium — it is a war memorial,” Hahn wrote in the Los Angeles Times this week. “Removing ‘Los Angeles’ and replacing it with a corporate sponsor insults the memories of those the Coliseum was intended to honour.”Some veterans joined Hahn in criticizing the change, which the airline insists is well intended. It’s the temporary home of the NFL’s Rams since their return from St. Louis and is a past home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the former Los Angeles Raiders and the University of California, Los Angeles, Bruins.

Source: National Post March 29, 2019 19:41 UTC